Hi all - What is the consulting equivalent of the "Head of.." title at Google? Is it a Director level position? I noticed a few folks on LinkedIn with this title who have close to 20 years of experience but the job postings on Google ask for 5-7 years of relevant experience. Thanks!

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To explain you’re confusion around the YoE, 5-7 years is the absolute minimum with the perfect experience and background. That being said, they likely won’t ever hire someone for this role with less than 10-15 years. It’s also common for People Ops to lowball the requirements for a role as it encourages more female candidates to apply. Studies show that women who are equally as qualified as men are less likely to apply for a role if they don’t 100% meet the requirements. It’s definitely also partially an attempt to attract more candidates to the JD

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This makes sense, thanks for taking the time to explain.

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It doesn't mean anything at all, and I say this from personal experience. Google lets people have pretty much whatever title they want, with the exception of Director, VP, etc. So a lot of people, esp. on the sales and consulting side, choose a "Head of" title to make them sound more important. I've know many "Head of" folks with little experience and no management reports.

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Interesting, thanks for the insight

Kind of a flex/oddball title but it’s usually for someone that’s demonstrated mastery, so yeah it could be a director level type person. Usually heads up a team for a specific subset, for example if it’s a financial services S&O team it would be the person that the managers/principals report up to.

It’s got a lot of meanings to it but 5-7 years won’t get you that title.

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Yeah idk what the logic is behind it but someone with 7 YoE isn’t going to land that role. You’re leading the engagement manager subset (they write all of the professional services SOWs). That role is probably closer to 12-15 for a legitimate conversation.

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There’s not really a consulting equivalent. It’s an L7 role usually, but there are some exceptions. My “Head of…” leads a segment of a team within a product area (e.g. Sundar -> CMO -> VP of APAC Marketing -> Head of …)

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A lot of the time - it's a made up title that demotes this person is the lead consultant in this area.

From what I have seen - those people usually have 20+ yoe

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19 YOE in consulting and came over as an L7/Head of title. Definitely a drop in level from consulting but significant increase in TC so didn’t faze me.

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L7 is about where I see people with 20 years of consulting experience come over.

One thing that is rarely talked about is which role families former consultants can join. Joining a solutions consulting or cloud consulting is possible. Joining as a technical solutions consultant is much harder as the bar for tech is so high

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