As an experienced report you can help your junior eng manager grow. When you’re being hired at staff eng level — a role partly defined as being a model employe

As an experienced report you can help your junior eng manager grow. When you’re being hired at staff eng level — a role partly defined as being a model employee — this should be made explicit as an expectation by your skip-level and/or CTO. You should be the best possible direct report, one that helps your eng manager learn in the best possible way and which sets an example to the more junior ICs in your team and org. You’ll probably begin at the very beginning, by letting them close the most senior hire of their career to date, as a hiring manager. The flip side: this is largely useless in a big org. The flip flip side is that it is invaluable in a high growth environment.