3YOE in MBB with a PhD background. Weighing in 2 offers: 1/ Associate director role with base salary 200K in R&D (TC 1st year ~310K) 2/ Director of corporate strategy (no offers yet). What are the associated Pros/Cons? What are the exit opportunities? Is there a space to negotiate the first option?

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AD with 300k TC is already more of a D role package so I doubt you can get more unless you negotiate to come at D level.

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First of all, congrats! Exiting in this economy isn’t easy.

For me, the big distinction I would consider is what kind of work / broader projects would you rather do? R&D and Corporate Strategy have some overlap, particularly in skill sets so your day to day may seem quite similar, but what big picture questions do you want to answer at the end of the day? What kind of work would you be more excited by? Sometimes I have trouble answering that so I even sometimes look at this as “which one would I be more willing to brag about to my peers?” Because you’re excited to brag about stuff you care about too!

And importantly, if you have answers to those, what delta in comp would you need to see in order to get you to pick the other (hopefully incoming) offer?

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if its moderna we also get $700 fior health lufe style spending a month

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It is inclusive of signing and relocation bonus as well

Hard to evaluate. Signing is one time and relocation is just to reimburse you for costs. What you need to evaluate, reoccurring comp (base + target bonus + rsu)

If you are em/pl with a couple of projects under your belt, you are very competitive for D level rolls. Most EMs in my starting class got D exits.

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