Lead Time Chats

Uma Chingunde on starting a VPE eng role in the pandemic

Episode Summary

Uma Chingunde (VP of Engineering at Render) and Jean Hsu (VP of Engineering at Range) chat candidly about onboarding into their first-time VP of Engineering roles — during the pandemic, with kids distance learning at home!

Episode Notes

Uma Chingunde (VP of Engineering at Render) and Jean Hsu (VP of Engineering at Range) chat candidly about onboarding into their first-time VP of Engineering roles — during the pandemic, with kids distance learning at home!

Jean and Uma discuss: 

• Directly reporting to the CEO as a VP of Engineering and how the role compares to other engineering leadership roles.
• Figuring out what we needed to know to ramp up and what to let go of
• The wide range of activities a VP of Engineering role can encompass, and doing many things we've never done before.
• The challenges of figuring out childcare logistics as we step into exec roles