I have an interview with a company for a Director PM position. I am currently a director but have never interviewed for such a positions. I can into the Director position through good ole hard work and promotion ( PM > Sr pm> Principal PM > Director). Any specific questions or good reads about this level of interviewing? Anything would be appriciated. TC: 220K
Which company? Is it ic role or leadership team managing role
How big is your company? 220 for director seems low
What’s director. Like Journey Owner?
Difference between most director level roles and other mid to junior roles are scale, complexity (not always), people leadership, and judgement calls. I know this is a very high level response, but dm me if you want to discuss more specifics. For context, i manage 3 directors; and enjoy mentoring and brainstorming ideas and opportunities. So happy to help if i can
Looking for Sr PMs at Expedia? I’ve got around 8yoe in travel tech
Have you promoted anyone to director on your team? How did you make that decision?
If you’re a director at a small company (which it seems like it if you’re only making $220k), then you’ll most likely come in at Senior PM at a big tech company. I’m a principal $350k… I don’t think you’re gonna be able hop to a director at google and move to $800-$1m a year
Sadly this. Unless OP has led large teams or works for a startup that’s not public then this may not apply.
Yup. E.g. I was a sr director and VP PM at multiple smallish startups and was fortunate to be hired as L6 at Google. Now L7 after four years, and L8 (“Director”) will be a very difficult promo if I can ever get there…
How everyone here forgot, the fact that, this is blind and op might be lying about his TC 🙈
Not sure what director pm is, but if it's director level scope consider questions like: How do you manage large teams, processes How do you measure org health What's a healthy org look like, and how do you fix an unhealthy organization Examples of cross functional team collaboration, conflicts, escalations