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title: "Growing into director plus roles"
description: "Transitioning to director+ roles and learning business context"
url: "https://www.rubick.com/wiki/career/director-plus/"
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# 🎆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](https://www.rubick.com/advice-for-new-directors/)
-   Ileanell Perez wrote about [her experience in an interim Director of Engineering](https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/nothing-prepares-you-first-director-role) role.
-   Rands wrote about the way he’s crystalized executive leadership [become the consequence](https://randsinrepose.com/archives/become-the-consequence/)

## Learning more about the business

-   Someone recommended this newsletter to [learn SaaS business context](https://substack.com/@cloudedjudgement)
-   [Financial modeling for startups, an introduction](https://www.fivecastfinancial.com/guides/financial-modeling-for-startups-an-introduction/)
-   [Rule of 40](https://www.cloudzero.com/blog/rule-of-40/)
-   [Why the Rule of 40 is becoming the Rule of 60](https://kellblog.com/2026/03/12/why-the-rule-of-40-is-becoming-the-rule-of-60-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/) - 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](https://maven.com/giff-constable/financial-fluency) 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.