Funny job title generator
A level, a department and a grand noun, drawn at random, with what the job is in plain words.
Chief Snack Officer
Is in charge of the snack cupboard. Made up the title.
Words
The job title generator's word lists
Each title takes one word from each list: 18 levels, 30 departments and 28 nouns, which makes 15,120 titles.
Levels
- Chief
- Made up the title.
- Senior
- Has done it long enough to stop asking why.
- Lead
- Nobody reports to them.
- Principal
- Paid more to do the same.
- Global
- From one laptop at the kitchen table.
- Junior
- Does all of it.
- Associate
- Does it for less.
- Interim
- Until someone else says yes.
- Executive
- Has a parking space.
- Regional
- Covers the second floor.
- Deputy
- Does it on Fridays.
- Acting
- Nobody has said it's permanent.
- Assistant
- Does the boss's share of it.
- Distinguished
- Stopped doing it in 2019.
- Founding
- Joined when there were beanbags.
- Fractional
- Does it on Tuesdays for three companies.
- Visionary
- Has never opened the spreadsheet.
- Staff
- One level above senior, and nobody knows why.
Departments
- Inbox
- Calendar
- Meetings
- Spreadsheet
- Spreadsheets
- Synergy
- Other teams' work
- Culture
- The Friday pizza
- Snack
- The snack cupboard
- Stakeholder
- People who reply all
- Slide
- Slide decks
- Vibes
- The group chat
- Growth
- A chart that goes up
- Onboarding
- New people's laptops
- Innovation
- Ideas from the last offsite
- Alignment
- Meetings about meetings
- Engagement
- The annual survey
- Workflow
- The ticket queue
- Transformation
- The reorg
- Printer
- The printer
- Password
- Forgotten passwords
- Expense
- Receipts
- Thought Leadership
- LinkedIn posts
- Customer Delight
- Complaints
- Coffee
- The coffee machine
- Hybrid
- The office on Tuesdays
- Brand
- The logo
- Data
- Exports to Excel
- Cloud
- Someone else's servers
- Deliverables
- Things due Friday
- Bandwidth
- Everyone's workload
- Kitchen
- The dishwasher
- Offsite
- Team-building
Nouns
- Evangelist
- Talks about it
- Architect
- Draws boxes around it
- Ninja
- Quietly fixes it
- Wrangler
- Chases people about it
- Guru
- Has opinions on it
- Officer
- Is in charge of it
- Champion
- Cares loudly about it
- Strategist
- Makes slides about it
- Whisperer
- Is the only one who understands it
- Czar
- Has the final say on it
- Alchemist
- Turns it into a budget line
- Custodian
- Cleans up after it
- Curator
- Picks favorites from it
- Hero
- Fixes it at 11 pm
- Rockstar
- Breaks it, loudly
- Liaison
- Forwards emails about it
- Catalyst
- Starts arguments about it
- Specialist
- Knows one thing about it
- Advocate
- Complains about it for a living
- Steward
- Guards it
- Orchestrator
- Schedules calls about it
- Magician
- Makes it disappear
- Futurist
- Guesses what happens to it next
- Owner
- Gets blamed for it
- Consultant
- Bills by the hour for it
- Ambassador
- Goes to lunches about it
- Scientist
- Runs experiments on it
- Detective
- Finds out who broke it
Titles
Nouns borrowed from real titles
Some of the nouns come from real companies. Automattic sorts its job board into departments such as Tax Wrangler and Fraud Wrangler, and Guy Kawasaki became Chief Evangelist at Canva in 2014. A real title can sound less likely than one we made up, and telling them apart is the whole game in real or fake job titles.
Others come from the same job ads as the worst corporate buzzwords. In an ad, Ninja means two people’s work done without complaint and Rockstar means no training. The generator is more honest about both. Its Ninja quietly fixes things, and its Rockstar breaks them, loudly.
Grand titles with nobody under them
A grand title can come with nothing attached. A Lead can have nobody reporting to them. A manager can hang off the org chart on a dotted line, answerable for results from people who report to someone else. A reorg can take away the whole division and leave its manager in place. The manager keeps the title and a small budget, with orders to spend it before year end so it isn’t marked as surplus.
That’s why the generator’s Owner gets blamed for things and owns none of them. It’s the most realistic noun on the list.
How to come up with a job title
For a real job, keep the title plain. 54% of US workers say a job title affects whether they accept an offer. Start with the name people search for, such as accountant or support engineer, then add the level your pay matches. The level you were promised can wait for the review.
For a joke title, take the dullest part of the job and make it grand, the way our funny job titles do. Whoever writes the note about the dishes becomes Senior Kitchen Enforcement Officer, and the note gets a letterhead.
Questions
What are some creative job titles?
Creative titles name the result instead of the task. A recruiter becomes Head of Talent, and a receptionist becomes Director of First Impressions. They're fine inside a company. On a resume, put the plain title first, because nobody searches for Director of First Impressions.
What are some cool job titles?
Short ones with a single grand word. Subway's crew job is Sandwich Artist, and Apple calls the staff at its Genius Bar Geniuses. Both fit on a business card with room to spare.
How can I generate a job title?
Take one word from each of three lists, a level such as Senior, a department such as Calendar and a grand noun such as Architect. A Senior Calendar Architect draws boxes around meetings. The three lists here make more than 15,000 others.
What are some goofy jobs?
Toys R Us had a Chief Play Officer whose job was to play with and test toys. The job was product testing, and the title did the rest of the recruiting.