Growing into director plus roles
Transitioning to director+ roles and learning business context
Adjusting to Director+ roles
- Jade has written up his learnings on the topic in advice for new directors
- Ileanell Perez wrote about her experience in an interim Director of Engineering role.
- Rands wrote about the way he’s crystalized executive leadership become the consequence
Learning more about the business
- Someone recommended this newsletter to learn SaaS business context
- Financial modeling for startups, an introduction
- Rule of 40
- Why the Rule of 40 is becoming the Rule of 60 - Argues that investor expectations have shifted and SaaS companies now need to hit 60+ to be considered healthy, with advice on how to adapt.
- Talk with finance people and review costs, models, etc.
- Talk with sales engineers.
- Talk with people in the growth function. Understand the numbers they track and care about.
- Someone I trust: I had a session on this at a CPO accelerator from Giff Constable and he’s now teaching a maven class on this. I found Giff to be a great teacher.
- You can get an MBA, or do an equivalent amount of self-study, although that’s high effort.