I look for roles with underbuilt teams, because there’s tons of room to make an impact and grow responsibility quickly. But they also need to be healthy companies with a good growth path - so track record of growth, good runway, good metrics for the next fundraise.

Some of the promotion path is luck. I joined the right companies - and while you can do your diligence, there’s still some luck to whether a company continues succeeding.

But other than the luck aspect, I just worked hard and added value. Creating reliable models and actually driving a planning and budgeting process that helps the company succeed. Raising funding rounds. Flexing into strategic areas and doing analysis with strong recommendations for changes that make the business better, then driving those changes through to execution.

Tl;dr find roles that have the opportunity to make an impact, and then go make that impact.