[twobitshifter]

If this is a typical offer you should negotiate for both title and salary.

Titles are fungible and don’t cost the company. You may run up against some ego problems if you skip over the title of your supervisor but that’s about it. Taking what they offer isn’t your only choice.

The same is true of salary. They’re likely hoping you will take just a little more to join. If they won’t raise salary, seek a signing bonus, equity, or other incentives. Leverage the weak title to your advantage but emphasizing that the role is a step back and you’ll need some assurance/security/benefit beyond the small increase in salary.

here’s a good article about the status vs money tradeoff

https://robkhenderson.substack.com/p/status-over-money-money...