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So, what if you're in a start-up doing a CTO's job, VP/E and VP/PM. What job title should you have in your opinion? It's also my understanding VP/E and VP/PM re
by firstlastname 17y ago
So, what if you're in a start-up doing a CTO's job, VP/E and VP/PM. What job title should you have in your opinion?
It's also my understanding VP/E and VP/PM report to CTO usually.
- tptacek 17y agoThe VP/PM's I've known reported either to CEO or to VP/M. The VP/E's I've known invariably reported to CEO. I'm not saying it never happens that the CTO heads engineering, but I don't think that's typical.
- evgen 17y agoI guess this depends on startup size. I think most technical co-founders see the hierarchy divided between a CE(xec)O and a CE(ng)O and tend to call that second slot the CTO. After twenty employees or so the VP/E tend to take over the real management duties and the CTO tend to be an architect role that slowly loses influence unless the CTO active asserts themselves.
- tptacek 17y agoThere are soooo many ineffectual CTOs, and even more ineffectual architects --- if you want to be the tech vision founder, why not stay right next to revenue and become VP/Product Management? Trying to make the (IMO notorious) CTO position work seems like playing to lose.