For the techies here... What does a CoS do?

Strategy manager + Executive Assistant.  
 Assisting Founders in making right decisions, kingmaker in fancy word but will never become king

Consultant

Ah ok... I had done this in my initial years.... New biz eval, m&a etc... Unless you want to become kingmaker as a career it's a good thing to do for a couple of years and then get back into biz .. product sales etc

Software Engineer

I'm getting into CoS role with my next switch and 4 years post MBA it finally feels I'm doing something related  What are the career growth opportunities? How does on move from here?  If you are/ha...

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I'm getting into CoS role with my next switch and 4 years post MBA it finally feels I'm doing something related

What are the career growth opportunities? How does on move from here?

If you are/have been a CoS please share your experience.  Will be very helpful 🙂

Chief of Staff : Career Growth

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What are the growth prospects for someone in a Chief of Staff role? Additionally, how long should someone stay in such a role?

Chief of Staff

Saw a surge in posts for Founder’s office/Chief of Staff roles, many people are interested in. What’s with the new trend?

Why is everyone so obsessed with Chief of Staff/Founder’s office roles suddenly?

Founder

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I would like to say that Indian firms have made a joke out of critical titles such as Chief of Staff! 🤷‍♂️

In big tech; CoS is an extremely critical & cutthroat leadership role, equivalent to a Sr. Director but here anyone can be CoS at 4-5 yoe. 😅

Recently a similar folks applied for the role of L8 & recruiter pointed out that he is CoS & graduated in 2018. 

What do you think?

Engineering Manager

As the title suggests, I often wonder what is the natural progression for people who join startups in Chief of Staff or even Founder's office roles? Do they move to a specialized vertical internally? Or do they move to other startups in CoS roles? Or they do their own venture (I like to believe this is still less likely). Have this thought because a lot of Tier 1 MBA, MBB consultant profiles have been moving to these roles and it really makes me wonder what path would the careers of these top talents take?

Future of Chief of Staff roles

Are the Lead - Founder's Office/Chief of Strategy roles worth it for someone with 9y experience in Business Operations? What can be suitable exit options here?

Founder's Office - Worth it for Experienced folks?

Sales Leader

I consider myself a jack of all trades. I run a small biz on the size. I’m quite disheartened by the lack of generalist leadership roles in companies. 

There is no natural career progression for a chief of staff. Plus, salaries for chief of staffs are not at par with CXOs. 

Is there no other way to rise up the ranks in a generalist role?

Generalist leadership roles

Director Product

Does it make sense to apply for MBA about 9 months after a job change? My career trajectory:
- Mid office Investment banking (2.5 years)
- Big 4 Management Consulting (7 months)
- Venture Capital / Business Development (1.5 years)
- Became Chief of Staff in a startup about 3 months ago. Want to apply to INSEAD, but was wondering if the switching hinders the application. Next deadline will come up in March end.

MBA Abroad

I'm currently working as a DevOps Engineer in a GCC with a CTC of 28 including Bonus. I joined this org 6 months back. My work here is mostly related to kubernetes and argocd. 

I'm plan to make a switch in 2025 and want to have clear goals for next year to prepare for switch.

My current focus is to develop my skills in GoLang and increase my depth in k8s and Linux for next year. Will this skills be in demand even after a year or should I be flexible with my plan for the next year?

Context: I've 3+ YOE, my previous experience was combination of AWS serverless + infrastructure definition + kubernetes + python backend coding. But my current workload is only k8s and argo.

Also I want to touch 50 LPA in compensation or land a job outside India.

Career Growth/Planning

DevOps Engineer

Hi guys, 

I've been working since the last 1.5 years as a customer service & operations analyst ( similar to process analyst/ operations analyst etc. ) in Retail Banking Ops and would like to upskill and switch to better roles ( where productivity and performance is not quantitative but qualitative as well).

My target roles/job profiles are those where BAU is not confined strictly to copy paste tasks but stimulates intellect. 

Would appreciate suggestions/certifications / courses which will make my resume strong { strong enough to apply in mid-career roles in investment banks( for example JP Morgan), AMCs (BlackRock), audit firms (KPMG), financial services ( AmEx), banks with GCCs in India ( NAB ) } 

Thanks in advance. Would appreciate referrals if any.

Career Growth in Banking/Financial Services/Asset Management/ AMCs / Big 4

Business Operations

I work as Senior Consultant for Business services  in operations governance domain at MNC after MBA from IIM. What are the job switch options ? What companies and which roles can I look forward to? How can I use LinkedIn to search the job’s similar to what I do currently? experience after MBA is 6 months …kindly guide

Job switch opportunity

Business Manager

Most of the CSM roles are offered by B2B SaaS companies. I believe there are two paths that can be taken post- 

1) You go to the client side 
2) You rise up the ladder of Sr CSM and so on.

People who have worked and are in a similar role and chosen diff paths, how is it going?

Any commentary/ Thoughts/ perspective on career growth as a CSM?

Career Trajectory as a Customer Success Manager

Product Manager

Context: 10.5 YOE, Marketing lead. I've been looking for a switch since September last year. I'd seen signs of maybe my role or the company itself folding very early and knew 'twas time to bolt. But it's not that easy. Back then - 1 year in a startup meant hey not bad, people still spoke to you and considered your profile. These days, they treat you like Ebola if you've not had your ass stuck in the same place for 3-5 years. 

Anyway, so the majority of my time searching for jobs was the shitty Easy Apply or IIMJOBS premium account route. Suprise suprise. It doesn't work. But hey I was still employed and not nearly as motivated as someone who's unemployed. 

Cut to layoffs: Got laid off with my whole team and a huge chunk of other leaders. My first layoff, felt hilariously like the last day of school. To the org's credit they gave us 3 month severance, leave encashments and extra months for those who'd been there for 2 years+. In hindsight hearing the horror stories of 2k severance from Byju's. I'm grateful for the nice golden parachute I got. I'll be honest, it contributed heavily to my mental stability. I had time, I had leverage, I didn't have to run for the first shitty opportunity that came my way. 

The How I did it (why you struggled through the above stream of consciousness) 

- Wrote to 159 founders with one pagers to 35 of them with ideas on how i'd lead their marketing function. 5 replies. 3 interviews. 2 offers - didn't take em cuz they were super early stage or diff cities. This is immediately in month 1 so I've already started feeling icky about not getting great brands to have in my set. 
- Easy Applied to 768 (I ran a Gmail search, this is a real number) jobs. 99% no responses or you've been rejected. 
-Kept changing one letter on my Naukri.com profile, got me 6 calls, 3 interviews and 1 conversion 

I think theres a word limit to posts 🥲 following up as comments below.

Finally got a job (here's the do's and dont's)

Part 3 
  
 - Add HRs and hiring managers on LinkedIn, send them free ideas and strategies. Its ok if they steal them it meant they were great. One of them will refer you, remember you or hire you. 
 - Have a CV and a summary (half a page) that gets people excited about wanting to read the CV. Only areas of expertise and bullet points for results  
 - Don't put the OpentoWork filter on your LinkedIn DP. Its radioactive. I know people actively avoid those profiles. But make sure to keep open to work beacon on for recruiters. It pushes you ahead  
 - Dont post low effort i need a job because im laid off, i dont have money, copy pasted by millions on Linkedin. If you're gonna publically ask for a job, make sure that post has enuff of your skillset screaming for a potential hirer to want to explore more. Else you'll get velle gadhe typing CFBR 
 - Dont be anal or choosy about interviewing, i literally gave 35-50 in 3 months that culminated in 4 offers. Each one taught me something, heck ive spoken to startups with 7 peeps in it  
 - The only one that can negotiate CTC is the one that can walk away. When the offer i wanted finally came, my fixed went down a tad, but variable increased. The role was worth it so i didnt bother negotiating. Places i wasnt excited about - oh i quoted 30% hikes and got it at one place :p

Brand Marketing Manager

What do u think the career trajectory will be for Native Mobile developers after 4-5 Years of experience? ( Android/Ios) 

Personally I think there are less senior/staff roles in india unless we pivot to BE or people roles we will not have an uptrend in our career. 

And what do u think about Hybrid frameworks ( like RN and Flutter) ? should we adopt them ASAP ? or not required to grow in the career ladder ? 

( Please add YOE while answering It helps to see how early devs vs Exp devs think )

Native Mobile developers - need ur thoughts.

Hi all!!

Hope you all are doing great.

I'm currently working in Bajaj Electricals in sales profile and would like to switch to other profile and company.

I'm more interested in Supply Chain management/ operations/ logistics.

My MBA background is also Marketing/ Operations.


I have done Gen AI supply chain course from IIM Mumbai and currently doing Supply Chain Certificate Course from APICS.

Have 1 YOE.


Any referral / opening in any SCM/Ops/Logs will help a lot.


Regards

Role and Company Switch

Welcome to IT Company Discussion's Private Community

I am a Sr. Software QA, having 11 years of total corporate experience, with a CTC of a bit less than the market standards. I want to switch to a leadership role, or a program manager role. What are your recommendations and guidance for a person like me?

My next career move.

Software Test - QA

Hi guys, 

I've been working since the last 1.5 years as a customer service & operations analyst ( similar to process analyst/ operations analyst etc. ) in Retail Banking Ops and would like to upskill and switch to better roles ( where productivity and performance is not quantitative but qualitative as well).

My target roles/job profiles are those where BAU is not confined strictly to copy paste tasks but stimulates intellect. 

Would appreciate suggestions/certifications / courses which will make my resume strong { strong enough to apply in mid-career roles in investment banks( for example JP Morgan), AMCs (BlackRock), audit firms (KPMG), financial services ( AmEx), banks with GCCs in India ( NAB ) } 

Thanks in advance.

Career Growth in Financial Services/ Banking/ AMCs

Chief of Staff is like the Badi Bahu (eldest daughter-in-law), expected to fix 3 decades of shit work culture

One of my bosses introduced me as "She follows me wherever I go"
Am I the Hutch dog?! (If you don't know Hutch dog, you are way too young)

It can be a rewarding role only if you know how to set firm boundaries; otherwise, people gonna take advantage of you.

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