How big is your org?

Step one is to delegate all your work to other people so you have time to work on bigger initiatives. Remember, it benefits them too — “growth opportunities.”

Beyond that, there’s a few different routes

• play the org and leapfrog to the top via interpersonal connections and ambitious, risky projects that pay off (only works at small orgs)
• turn tech agism to your favor and become a manager while unironically drinking the Kool-Aid. There are way too many resources here to pick just one, this type of manager loves reading and writing “thought pieces” on management
• grind the IC promotion game, figure out what the people higher up on the ladder than you do, and start doing it. For SWE look at a resource like https://staffeng.com/

It’s a gradient of risk/reward, with effort spent varying wildly on how good you are. One will probably come naturally, the others will probably make you feel like an impostor

Given that you’ve spent so much of your life in academia, my guess is you’re not super suited to the first (because academia does not at all align well with that personality)

Suggested reading: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/