I am in non-tech at DD( sales, marketing, analytics, product, sales ops) and I am at a director level at DD. I have been with DD for about a year. I am not excited about marketplace as a business and want to move into B2B SaaS. I have an opportunity to move to a HR tech company as a senior director and report into the CXO. The company is also a public company but a little old school tech ( ADP, Paycom, Paycor, Paychex). The pay at this new place is less than DD. The base pay is ~28K less per year, RSUs per year is less by -43K per year. But the new offer has yearly bonus and DD does not have that. I am eligible for 20% of the base pay as bonus at the new place. So in effect the new role is ~ 8%-10% less than DD. This does not take into account any of the stock upside that I have seen at DD. If I also include the stock upside then the new offer is ~14% less than DD. The benefits are also not great at the new place - DD is actually very generous with PTO, company holidays etc. Both the places have annual refreshers so I am not looking at which one is better. I have negotiated a lot and I don’t think the offer will go up. On one side I do not want to take a pay cut but I am also worried if I am missing an opportunity to level up and be a part of the senior leadership. At DD the director role is considered middle management and surely not senior management. So not sure if by looking at comp I am being too shortsighted and missing out on a good opportunity to be a part of the senior leadership team. The new HM sounded very optimistic about my role and mentioned that this is really a great opportunity for me to grow. I also really want to get into B2B SaaS and I think this will help with that. But I am worried if I will regret the move if I take the offer. TC: 300K
Removing comp from the equation it’s probably a better role - leadership roles are not easy to crack into. But if the comp is lower that means the scope is also probably smaller - title alone does not mean it is a leadership role.
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What’s the point of a better title if the compensation doesn’t match? What do you think the difference is between middle management at DD and senior management at a dinosaur is that’s so alluring?