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My title is Senior Engineer. The Lead of our team left a year ago and I've been acting as the lead/manager. I have a Manager, and his boss is a Director. My duties include planning sprints, scrum master (lead scrum calls), back log grooming, sprint planning, sprint retrospecitve, security audits, trouble shooting and otherwise support prod. A whole ton of crap a Senior shouldn't be doing. All with the dangled carrot of "do the job for a year and next review we'll see about a promotion".

I approached this situation with a healthy does of skepticism to begin with knowing full well if they can get the work for nothing they will. Next annual review is in January, My quarterly reviews have been good, the team has been delivering, and we're delivering on a major project I spec'd, planned, train and led the team on.

I was planning to bring up the promotion situation then. Now my Manager who've I've been working with has been moved to another product, and I'm reporting to his Director.

So how do I not get lost in the transition? I want the lead title, I don't care about a raise at this point. Thoughts?

I launched a SaaS service a little over a year ago that didn't gain any users. I'm contemplating relaunching after some feedback. My question is, should I reuse the previous domain name? I kinda spammed service here and on reddit so I fear there may be negative association with the old domain. But it has links and some seo at this point.