Develop leadership skills if you want the the role you describe below. That can’t be granted in a promotion and doesn’t happen automatically with age > My expe

Develop leadership skills if you want the the role you describe below. That can’t be granted in a promotion and doesn’t happen automatically with age > My expectations for the roles like Staff / Principal Engineer are that while staying hands-on, say for 30%, I will primarily use more my skills in architecture, engineering, and communications to focus on large, important pieces of functionality, technical decisions with big impact, etc. I expect that I would report to a Director or VP level manager, so that I could be exposed to a big picture, collaborate with and learn from a professional who operated on strategic level