Thinking out loud on where I am heading

I am seeing that I spend more time meeting and coordinating across people than I do deep work in. Is this a requirement for the role? Is this influence without authority? Is this what I am navigating towards as a personal preference? Is that what I am focusing on to avoid having to sit down and do deep work? A bit of all.

Overall, I think I have changed a lot since I got here to now. One thing I feel unhappy about is that this growth is not concrete or written down in a way that is transferable outside this team or company. If I go to a new company, I am not going to be considered for VP Product, I am still an individual contributor PM. Does the title matter to me? What should I do to increase the transferability of my skills?

I have this terrible itch to ensure that I am on a growth path. I need to have a conversation with my managers about what else, what more and what differently should I do or could I do.

Ruling out team or company changes for now as I am really happy about where I am. This is not going to change or solve the concern listed above. There are a few options that are top of mind. (a) Showcase indirect leadership to fill in the temporary engineering gap, buy myself this time to figure out what to do next year. This is the happy path. (b) Increase functional skills by broadening to an SDM role - not going to be easy to get to this role, but I can keep pecking. I have started on this. (c) Increase breadth of influence and do more cross team PM influencing - hope that the uphill work involved to get things to fruition will help in some way, directly and indirectly. Can argue that this is a job requirement for my level.

Doing (c) for now until I get more clarity on how to get to (b). Easy and simple is not enough to cure the itch. What is life without having a little more than you can handle on your plate? Stretching as much as I can possibly handle is my style.