I was hired into my company (startup) as a manager, however titles at this company are incredibly inflated. There are people with 2-3 years less experience than me brought in as senior manager. Now I make 20-30k more than those people despite having a lower “rank” but I find that with the lower title people tend to be dismissive of me and assume I’m younger. It doesn’t help that this is a male dominated aged space as well. Any advice on how to bring up this discrepancy, or even how to doing this

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More money and less responsibility, you're living the dream lol. I'd just bring it up with your manager. Or global executive senior director.

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I learnt a while ago, job titles are meaningless. If you put a lot of weight in your title. It will take you longer to move up in a company.

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Yeah I think it’s past the point of dismissiveness changing based on my title, I think my main qualm is just that my title isn’t actually inflated (at a diff company I should be a M or SM) but admittedly my egos kinda shot bc people younger than me are SMs easily. It’s more just an issue with how they recruit and they definitely jipped me rank wise, they expect output from me as if I were a SM or honestly director without the title and probably still slightly lower pay on the groups that I’m “only a manager” but I guess yeah it’s kind of a silver lining too

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Spin this as grounds for a promotion. Most people get promoted around the 9 month mark which I hit next month. And I feel done dirty

Learn as much as you can and then leverage this inflated title to your next job opportunity.

Do you feel like the title change would help a lot with people not being as dismissive? My concern would be if they are already, how much difference would it make. You could probably make the case for why you can move into the role based on the experience and skills you bring.

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