roles

Primary Role:

Leads multiple engineering teams and managers

Reporting Relations:

Reports to VP/CTO

Decision Making Authority:

Budget + headcount authority

Stratigic Planning

Owns annual planning for domain

Team Management:

Manages EMs/Senior EMs

Meeting Involvment:

Executive leadership contributor

Project Management:

Portfolio-level delivery oversight

Communication:

Executive reporting

Professional Development:

→ VP of Engineering

Primary Role:

Leads technical execution for a single team

Reporting Relations:

Reports to EM

Decision Making Authority:

Day-to-day technical decisions

Stratigic Planning

Translates roadmap into implementation plan

Team Management:

None formally

Meeting Involvment:

Leads technical discussions

Project Management:

Owns delivery coordination

Communication:

Primary technical voice for team

Professional Development:

→ Staff Engineer / TLM

Primary Role:

Designs technical solutions for customers or enterprise clients

Reporting Relations:

Reports to Eng/CTO/Sales Eng

Decision Making Authority:

Technical design authority for implementations

Stratigic Planning

Limited internal strategy; supports GTM strategy

Team Management:

None

Meeting Involvment:

Client meetings + pre-sales calls

Project Management:

Oversees solution implementation

Communication:

Customer + sales communication

Professional Development:

→ Principal Architect