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Funny job titles and the jobs behind them

Titles we wrote for the jobs every office has, each with what the job is, plus real ones that companies handed out.

Titles

Funny job titles for the office

  1. Director of Birthday CardsWalks the card around every desk and guards the envelope.
  2. Head of Thermostat RelationsNegotiates between the person who is cold and the person who is hot.
  3. Chief Printer WhispererKnows which tray to slam.
  4. Senior Kitchen Enforcement OfficerWrites the note about the dishes in the sink.
  5. Vice President of Reply AllAnswers the whole company to say thanks.
  6. Principal Meeting Room SquatterStays in the room after the booking ends.
  7. Lead Leftover Sandwich ScoutKnows when the client lunch is over.
  8. Global Head of Lost ChargersHas a drawer.
  9. Chief Minute TakerThe only person who knows what was agreed.
  10. Head of Out of OfficeSets the auto-reply on Wednesday for a Friday off.

Funny titles for meetings and management

  1. Director of Circling BackPromises to follow up on everything, and follows up on nothing.
  2. VP of AlignmentBooks meetings to agree on the agenda for meetings.
  3. Head of Strategic PausingSays "let's take this offline" and means never.
  4. Senior Manager of Low-Hanging FruitTakes the easy wins and the credit for them.
  5. Principal Stakeholder SootherKeeps the people who can say no from saying no.
  6. Executive Deck PolisherMoves the logo two pixels left before the board meeting.
  7. Associate Vice President of BandwidthIs too busy to take this on, and explains why for an hour.
  8. Head of Synergy RealizationMerges two teams into one team that argues.
  9. Director of Double BookingIs in two meetings and listening to neither.

Funny titles for tech jobs

  1. Senior Off-and-On-Again EngineerFixes most tickets by restarting something.
  2. Lead Spreadsheet ArchaeologistFinds out what the formula in column AZ was for.
  3. Chief Password Reset OfficerHas reset your password more times than you have.
  4. Head of Ticket ReopeningMarks your ticket fixed, and you reopen it.
  5. Staff Engineer of Legacy CodeMaintains the one system nobody is allowed to touch.
  6. Chief Wi-Fi BlamerDrops off the call when a question gets hard.
  7. Director of Camera-Off OperationsAttends every meeting as a gray square with initials.

Funny titles for sales and marketing

  1. Chief Buzzword OfficerRewrites "we sell software" until nobody can tell.
  2. Head of Thought LeadershipPosts on LinkedIn at 7 am about waking up at 5.
  3. Senior Growth HackerSends the same email to everyone twice.
  4. Director of Customer DelightAnswers complaints.
  5. VP of PipelineMoves deals from next quarter to next quarter.
  6. Brand Storyteller in ResidenceRewrites the About page once a year.

Funny titles for business cards

  1. Chief Everything OfficerRuns a company of one.
  2. Founder and Head of Taking Out the TrashRuns a startup with three people and one bin.
  3. Executive Director of Household LogisticsKnows where everyone's shoes are.
  4. Freelance Deadline SurvivorSends invoices, then emails about the invoices.
  5. Senior Vice President of VibesPicks the music at the office party.
  6. Intern, SeniorStill the intern after two reorgs.
  7. Head of Remote PresenceWorks from home and keeps the Teams dot green.

Real

Weird job titles that are real

  • Security Princess. Parisa Tabriz’s title at Google, which she joined in 2007. It went on her business card for a conference in Tokyo.
  • Jolly Good Fellow. Chade-Meng Tan’s title at Google until he left in 2015.
  • Digital Prophet. What David Shing called himself at AOL from 2011. The best titles are often self-issued.
  • Technoking of Tesla. Elon Musk’s title in a 2021 Tesla filing with the SEC. The finance chief, Zach Kirkhorn, became Master of Coin the same year.
  • Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office. Larry the cat, in the job at the UK Cabinet Office since 2011.
  • Director of Rodent Mitigation. Kathleen Corradi, the first in New York City, appointed by Mayor Eric Adams in April 2023.
  • Chief Heat Officer. Miami-Dade County created the job in 2021 and calls it the world’s first.
  • Night Mayor. Amsterdam elected its first in 2003.
  • Galactic Viceroy of Research Excellence. The title James Mickens went by at Microsoft Research.
  • Chief Vibes Officer. Troye Sivan for Smirnoff in 2024, though the announcement itself says it “is not a real title”.
  • Chief Tasting Officer. A Wendy’s contest in 2026 with a $100,000 prize, which its release calls an honorary title.
  • Sandwich Artist. The crew job on Subway’s careers site.

The real or fake job titles game mixes titles like these with ones we made up, and you pick which is which. After this list, the made-up ones start to sound tame.

Job-ad titles that mean extra work

A job ad that asks for a rockstar, a ninja, a wizard or a unicorn is describing the workload. The wizard fixes problems nobody can describe, and the unicorn is one hire with every skill on the list. A superhero works late without a cape allowance. A Support Hero answers the same ticket queue as a support agent, with a better name on it. The corporate buzzwords in the same ad usually say the rest.

Titles that don’t match the job

Some people have two titles and some have none. The Teams profile says one thing and payroll says another, while the staff directory lists you in a building you’ve never set foot in. Then there’s the person the last reorg forgot, who found a clipboard, walked the floor asking questions and wrote down the answers. It can take years for someone to ask what that job is.

A title for your real job

Real titles are getting grander without the pay. 39% of US workers have been handed a more senior title and the same salary, a promotion that shows up only in the email signature. Grand can backfire, too. 41% say a job title has made them look overqualified or underqualified.

For a joke title, the job title generator puts a level, a department and a grand noun together at random, then says in plain words what the job is.

Questions

What are some unusual job titles?

Best Buy's Geek Squad had ranks like Double Agent-Covert and Deputy Field Marshal, until it renamed its in-store roles and the field marshals lost their rank. The designers at Walt Disney Imagineering are Imagineers, and Disney's 1989 trademark filing for the word claims first use in 1962.

What is the funniest job title?

Our pick among the real ones is Paranoid-in-Chief, which Yahoo's chief information security officer went by. It describes the job better than the official title does, and it saves a paragraph in the job description.

What is the coolest job title?

Explorer in Chief. The Downtown Alliance in Lower Manhattan offered it at $2,250 per two weeks, rent included. Most titles come with a commute instead.

What are some funny names I can call my job?

Take the worst part of the job and give it a grand title. Whoever chases unpaid invoices is Head of Payment Pursuit, and whoever books the meeting rooms is Director of Space Allocation. Put Chief or Global in front, since nobody checks.

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