[davidals]

Interesting that someone posted my post here, I was surprised on medium stats about most traffic coming from here.

Anyway...

I totally agree with you.

Cross-functionality I think is the defining factor of the role. And every company does it slightly different, which was the motivation for me to write this, to give some more data points to the public web about what it can be.

I also wrote when I started this job as I was an external hire into a Staff role directly: https://medium.com/@_davidanderson/starting-a-new-job-as-a-s... because it definitely is a different beast than being promoted from within as you come with neutral-to-negative trust level with the existing people and need to work from there.