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What advice would you have when told the only potential to career progression from current role as a sales leader, was to be an IC. For context I was IC at multiple other companies and a leader for multiple years in current company
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Is the next move only IC because it would be in an enterprise sales team? From SMB/MM Manager perhaps? Either way, it is strange that there doesn’t seem to be any further career progression within a leadership capacity. I’d look outside to see what bigger businesses are hiring for.
That seems odd - you're already a sales leader and you want to progress at your current company? And they're saying you need to go back to an IC role? Maybe I'm not following. But if that's the case, this sounds like a questionable organization and I'd consider the following: 1. Looking for lateral moves to a similar level leadership position in a company that may support more upward movement. 2. If you did have to consider taking a step back to an IC role, that's going to be a question you'll have to answer moving forward in interviews, so you should really ensure that it's for a VERY good IC role, possibly at a much stronger company, and one where you have a very high confidence of success. Happy to help further.