Opinions on Director of Strategy roles in tech? Was offered this job for a B2B software company. Will be focused a lot on business intelligence and RevOps initially. Trying to calibrate this type of role. Thanks.

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Real strategy work at the top tech companies lives with product and engineering managers; successful companies decentralize this to work to a large extent. Sometimes you’ll see these job titles on teams focusing on optimization or internal process improvement but it can really vary by company.

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