Reference #308: Empowered
A tech lead is a senior-level engineer with the responsibility of participating in ongoing product discovery. She is a key partner to a team's product manager and designer.
A tech lead brings a deep knowledge of her company's technology and combines this with the PM and designer's expertise on their customer's pain points to create great products.
She cares not only about building products well but also about what is being built.
Cagan, Jones. Empowered, 2021. (59)