Founders

What are you best tips about titles in companies?

Cofounder @morpho - wizard making finance a public good

keep them flat, i.e. design, engineering, product, sales ... whoever needs external facing title, make it look great - even let them pick.

Ultimately titles mean nothing these days because they're all compromised by overuse, so you anyway have to explain what that means - so if your culture (and industry) allows, make them fun. People generally loved funny titles and will use them everywhere.

avoid titles for as long as possible (~15 team size)

just have “role” and “lead” if really needed

eventually as the team grows bigger you have to start playing the titles game but would delay for as long as possible

Counter tip: titles are a great recruitment tool for startups

functions are a better way to keep it simple, but the world doesn't operate that way, so keeping titles straight to the point is possibly the best way