Career Trajectory - from IC to Executive?

I'm wondering if anyone can share an experience of moving from an IC (Data Scientist / ML Practitioner - for reference I'm a Senior Computer Vision researcher working at a big FAANG company) - to an Executive level position (Director/VP/etc...)?

As I progress in my career, I'm finding I'm much less interested in continuing to write papers and do research, and more interested in being involved in upper level decision making. I'm already on track to transition into a management …

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