Location: India.

Remote: Yes. Willing to relocate: Yes.

Resume/CV: On request. My employers too lurk here :) Email: aarvi.contactus@gmail.com

I'm a Sr. VP (Engg) with extensive experience in building products and teams from scratch. Currently leading over 30 member team. Solid experience of scaling products and teams to millions of users with a firm handle on cost. Looking for a new opportunity! Email if interested.

not too great. not a single response. like throwing job apps into a blackhole.

not everything is a tech problem. sometimes it is sales and marketing and just downright ignorance and chuck-it-to-tech on part of the operations team.

just hire. you will figure it out. a lot of people i know often wait for the 'perfect' candidate to show up at the door in a halo of divine light. aint gonna happen. most of the 'A-players' on my team currently were hired less on technical chops and more on un-measurables like 'sincerity', 'attitude'. these same people, now, with the benefit of decades of working together, would not hire themselves as they were when they joined.

in a nutshell: for a startup as early stage as yours, you need people. you will figure out what you need as you go along.

you've never 'made it'. every day is a struggle to start afresh and prove your worth. the moment you think 'you've arrived' is the day your downfall starts/

Location: India. Remote: Yes. Willing to relocate: Yes. Resume/CV: On request. My employers too lurk here :) Email: aarvi.contactus@gmail.com

I'm a Sr. VP (Engg) with extensive experience in building products and teams from scratch. Currently leading over 30 member team. Solid experience of scaling products and teams to millions of users with a firm handle on cost. Looking for a new opportunity! Email if interested.

Not so great. Not a single call yet. This after having spent over a decade as CTO at a startup, built all products and teams from scratch. Dont know where I am going wrong. But.. hope is what makes the world go round!

Not many companies hire CTOs through regular channels, and it’s likely you’ll be seen as overqualified for lower rank jobs.

I think you can basically do 2 things: try to get into contact with executive head hunters or make it very clear on your resume and LinkedIn that despite your tenure as CTO you’re very much open to EM or IC engineering roles.

Would second this. I also just dropped the C*O title from my resume in certain cases where I thought it would look worse.

The outreach I’ve gotten for similar positions was always outside-in.

Thanks for your response. I am in touch with the big names like Korn Ferry etc. But are there other individual names you can recommend?

You need an agent. Also reach out to your investors if you had any and are on good terms.

Thank you for responding. Whats an agent? Can you recommend some that I can reach out to? I've thought of investors, but I am an employee and the company is still in existence. So reaching out to investors may be perceived as being in bad taste

Please shoot me a message -- email on profile

do you want to transition to IC role within the same company? if so, then dont. IMHO. - tough to reset power equations. people may not be comfortable around folks they have reported to many levels above. - 6 years of mgmt role is good experience to leverage for something else. - if you've just had a kid, an IC role might be tough to manage. - if you still want to do it, one way could be to take on small tasks that dont hold uyp the release almost independently for some time. and then when you think you are ready, do it.

but honestly, im not even sure how mgmt will see this. companies usually dont like people demoting themselves. best look for a new company. all IMHO

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