I absolutely love coaching tech leads. More often than not, these are the people behind the world's most impressive innovations. A tech lead is essentially a senior‐level engineer who has taken on the additional responsibility of participating in the ongoing product discovery work. The tech lead is the key partner to the product manager and product designer. They are asked to care not just about building and delivering reliable products, but also to care about what gets built. Tech leads bring deep knowledge of the enabling technologies, and when that knowledge is combined with a direct
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