![]() ![]() Rather be Senior Vice President of something than Head of it, but in Head and Manager are still job (rather than Within Exec, and CxO means "highest x we think we'll ever need, until VP means "vetted for social fit within Exec", EVP means "a leader Summaries would be as follows: Director means "vetted for competence", There's a bit of blurriness in all of this, but the one-sentence I'd rather have a conservative and meaningful Officer) suggest "promoted out of the way" or, even worse, Chief Risk Officer at aīlown-up hedge fund) and also that goofy C-levels (e.g. The bad thing about being C-level is that itĬan hurt your career if the company becomes known for failing in thatĬapacity, even if it's not your fault (e.g. You get fired, which will usually be a news-maker and draw questions ![]() It's titularly impossible to hire above you in your specialty (unless He deserves to get this newly-existent SVP title. shit gets complicated, because now every VP is deciding whether Will have to hire an SVP of Engineering, and if SVP doesn't exist Titles matter is that it requires the company to go one level higher Still your boss.) They also mean that someone can't be hired above You're probably gone unless that CEO is in hot water. (In practice, if the CEO doesn't like you, C-level positions generally mean that an executive, on paper, reports to the board.To be different from "VP-level quality") but that there wasn't a "C-level quality" (whatever that means, and however that is construed In theory, Executive VP means that you're Next bullet point, sometimes creating a C-level position is bad for They're given to people who are good enough to justify a promotion every 5 years, butįor whom there aren't proper C-level positions. Senior and Executive VP don't mean that much more.VP is trusted to represent the engineering organization to the Overseeing day-to-day functioning of the engineering organization the The Director of Engineering is responsible for (I don't know if it's taken toĪctually mean that.) It also allows you to represent a certainĬapacity to Exec. Lead the company if the entire line-of-succession above you were (as vice president) that you're good enough that you'd be qualified to Vice President means that you're "one of us" according to Exec, but you're not a leader within Exec.(executive)- or, more darkly and realistically, how you are As aĭirector, you're the top of middle management and crossing from beingĮvaluated on what you do (blue-collar) to being judged on what you are In investmentīanks and European countries, however, this level is called VP. Own work and delegate, and there are no doubts about your industrialĬompetence, but you're still being vetted socially. You're trustedĮnough to push more often than you're pulled, and you can direct your ![]() Director (or, for non-managerial people at such a level in software, architect) is the mid-level at which competence is assertedīut you're not yet "one of us" as far as Exec sees it.the core of people who actually run the company) sees you. Respect from the people you need to lead) to be "Head of Technology"Īmong the engineers while being "VP of Engineering" as far as Exec It can give you a certain blue-collar credibility (and, thus, Head of is, like Manager, blue-collar insofar as it describes what you do rather than what you are.Rather than the status that you hold in the company. You're still defined by the work you do (i.e. It doesn't make you "one of us" as far as the executives areĬoncerned. Manager is just a job and doesn't necessarily imply meaningful status.So, taking a U.S.-based approach, here's approximately what the titles In European companies and investment banking, Directors In the U.S., it's common for VPs to be higher thanĭirectors. In some cultures and countries, VPs outrank Directors and, in others, "Managing Director" but individual contributors. In finance, it's not uncommon for star traders or quants to be Of these matters are orthogonal to whether you actually have reports. Start a new job without reports, insofar as I want reports who want toīe under me and chose me, not those who were "put" under me.) So, all VP or Director level (in part, to justify actually paying me to HR)Įven if I'm going to be writing code full-time. Most job offers that I get at this point in my career are You also don't have to be a manager to be a Head or to be aĭirector/VP. You can be the VP of X and not the Head of Given time, whereas Director and VP refer to levels of trust and "Head of " means that one is the highest-ranking specialist at a "Head of " is orthogonal to VP/Director type titles, because the Actually, the titles are used interchangeably at some places, and at some places they are given a different set of responsibilities to each. ![]()
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