How do I become a design manager or design lead?
Start doing parts of the job before you have the title: mentoring juniors, leading projects with ambiguity, and influencing decisions beyond your own work. Then make that work visible to whoever decides promotions. A mentor who has made the IC-to-manager jump can tell you whether you actually want the job, which is the step most people skip.
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