Note on Advice for New Principal Tech ICs via Eugene Yan

Define and align your charter with your leadership. One way is to split your work into three buckets: (i) owner, (ii) sponsor, (iii) consultant. As a consultant, you’re involved in reviews and provide guidance, and have a high-level understanding of the system’s or product’s intent. As a sponsor, in addition to the above, you make the idea a priority for the org, work to build alignment and drive decisions, and engage with stakeholders. As an owner, it’s everything above, plus being the system expert and first point of contact, and having borderline obsession with the success of the design, execution, and impact. I tend to own 1 - 2 projects (> 50% time), sponsor 2 - 3 projects (~20% time), and consult the rest of my time.

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Eugene Yan

Advice for New Principal Tech ICs

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