She's coming from Github/Microsoft. That is a very different environment than most of us. A company of that size has more money to pay people who live outside the regular product org and more opportunities to do "strike teams".

The bullet point list of strategic work that she provides mostly overlaps with what engineering managers do. It's valid to point out that you don't need people reporting to you to do it. It's very cool that she's been at companies that made that possible. But I think it's a mistake to say, as I think many commenters here are saying, that that's the only valid approach.