Tech Lead Management roles are a trap.

The tech lead manager role is often presented as an easy on-ramp to team manager,
but my experience is that being a tech lead manager is a considerably harder first management role than pure team management.
Rather than an on-ramp, tech lead manager roles are usually a trap for first-time managers.

The theory of the tech lead manager is that you find a capable engineer who is defacto leading part of the team,
and make them the official manager for that sub-team. Because they're already defacto ...