Ask HN: Former Startup CEO in Eastern Europe. Career Path Suggestions?

5 pointsby throwawayCEOvor 11 Jahren2 comments

Hi HN, need some advice here. I'm working since 2005 in online companies in an unnamed Eastern European country, been a (really successful) performance marketing director of an ecommerce company, CEO of a mildly successful startup, which I had to leave due to personal reasons, then CMO at a very successful startup and currently a head of product at a BigCo in Eastern Europe.

I want to move to work in US, but I am stumbling to find a good career path for myself. I am a good engineer, a good marketer, a moderately proficient data scientist, good at designing product, and generally good at solving business problems. Out of all jobs I've had, holding a generalist executive role has been the most personally rewarding, yet it seems that SV really favors specialists. Any place for (senior-level) generalists or any specific niche I could reasonably get in from across the ocean?

Any comments would be appreciated.

2 comments

hamoperatorvor 11 Jahren

It sounds like your strongest suit might be digital marketing with a data & analytics bent. What about looking at growth hacker type jobs at startups here. I personally hate the term but it seems to describe your unique skill sets (marketing + data science + product design + business skills)

http://tapwage.com/channel/growth-hacker

Or you could look to be a technical product manager either at a startup or a large tech company.

http://tapwage.com/channel/big-tech-product-manager

Hope that helps.

stephengillievor 11 Jahren

So...2 thoughts:

1. What's your personal network like? A lot of high-level positions don't get communicated widely and depend on knowing someone.

2. There's more to the USA than just SV.