Jill Wetzler's guest appearances

Jill Wetzler

The People Stack Podcast

Scaling Software Teams

Emotional Leadership

Will Larson

Jean Hsu

Jared Spool

Josh Doody

Ben Rubin

Michael Anderson

Kevin Stewart

Claire Lew

Wes Kao

Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Russ Ruffino

Johanna Rothman

Jake Miller

Ryan Carroll

Kareen Walsh

OwlTail

How do you lead the leaders on your team? Today’s guest has been developing leaders for years, and she’s sharing her insights on this episode of Scaling Software Teams. Jill Wetzler is the Head of Engineering at Pilot. Before her current role, she scaled Lyft’s Infrastructure Engineering organization from a handful of people to over 100 infra engineers. She was also Lyft’s Director of Engineering Leadership Development. In this episode, we talk about the principles and tactics she’s used to develop leaders; from skip-level one-on-ones to developer advocacy. We also dive into the management issues that can hold under-represented individual contributors back and what we can do to fix them.Wes’ Takeaways:Skip-level one-on-ones can be incredibly useful for finding coaching areas for managersHire managers who think about management the same way you do–Stay in front of management hiring.Use a charter to align teams on tasks, priorities, and customer needs.Developer advocacy is critical for a developing team. (What engineers wish HR would be)If under-represented groups are stuck, it’s likely a management issue.

How do you lead the leaders on your team? Today’s guest has been developing leaders for years, and she’s sharing her insights on this episode of Scaling Software Teams. Jill Wetzler is the Head of Engineering at Pilot. Before her current role, she scaled Lyft’s Infrastructure Engineering organization from a handful of people to over 100 infra engineers. She was also Lyft’s Director of Engineering Leadership Development. In this episode, we talk about the principles and tactics she’s used to develop leaders; from skip-level one-on-ones to developer advocacy. We also dive into the management issues that can hold under-represented individual contributors back and what we can do to fix them. Wes’ Takeaways: Skip-level one-on-ones can be incredibly useful for finding coaching areas for managers Hire managers who think about management the same way you do–Stay in front of management hiring. Use a charter to align teams on tasks, priorities, and customer needs. Developer advocacy is critical for a developing team. (What engineers wish HR would be) If under-represented groups are stuck, it’s likely a management issue.

Developing Leaders on a Team with Jill Wetzler

Everything we want, we want because of how we think it will make us feel. But the truth is that our own thoughts are the only things that can create our emotions. Join me as I talk with Jill Wetzler, Head of Engineering at Pilot, about what makes it easy for her to feel validation and how she creates an environment that makes it easy for team members too.  Get the full shownotes and this episode's Podcast Guide at https://exceptional.vision/podcast/6, or text VALIDATED to 44222 to have the Podcast Guide delivered right to your email.

Everything we want, we want because of how we think it will make us feel. But the truth is that our own thoughts are the only things that can create our emotions. Join me as I talk with Jill Wetzler, Head of Engineering at Pilot, about what makes it easy for her to feel validation and how she creates an environment that makes it easy for team members too. Get the full shownotes and this episode's Podcast Guide at <a href="https://exceptional.vision/podcast/6" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://exceptional.vision/podcast/6</a>, or text VALIDATED to 44222 to have the Podcast Guide delivered right to your email.

Validation + Everything You Want with Jill Wetzler

In a packed episode, Jill Wetzler, Director of Engineering at Lyft, talks about how she got there, where she is going, the challenges of growing teams and managers both in quantity and quality, mentoring and coaching, how she manages her time, and how to create a stronger team through personal connections.  

In a packed episode, Jill Wetzler, Director of Engineering at Lyft, talks about how she got there, where she is going, the challenges of growing teams and managers both in quantity and quality, mentoring and coaching, how she manages her time, and how to create a stronger team through personal connections.

Episode 44: Jill Wetzler talks about becoming a Director of Engineering at Lyft, growing managers, mentoring and more 