#director

What is the process? Dir to senior director?

Just heard we got a new director and she is from there. Why is all senior management affiliated with this school?

(this is publically available information)

This round of layoffs is only for managers, directors, and VPs, not ICs. Have you heard of any ICs getting laid off too?

Vp or director?

When somebody said this round will be just managers, directors, and VPs, I knew it sounded too good to be true. Not only was it not true, so far I haven't heard of a single manager or higher who were affected, at least in my area. And to think, this could have been a useful layoff.

I worked as a senior director for centene for almost 9 years. There are several VPS that I would love to see handed their backside and would love to know if there is a list of VPs who have been let go, laid off, or left the company. There are several of them that I would love to see them on. The welfare line are absolutely broke. They deserve it.

Because all I have seen are Directors and below let go or impacted. But the ones that planned it out seem to still be here. The org chart looks like a broom now instead of a pyramid.

There was a recent director meeting which was stated "we have to many sales manager" expect cuts here.

Was shocked to learn in some areas, the person running the layoff call was not from hr, but a Director forced to hold the call. Didn't even know who or how many laid off.

Wouldn’t that money be better spend buying off the grandpas and grandmas?

Managers are gone. Directors to IC. 30 to 1

I heard there were quite a few layoffs in Audit Services today. Is this true? I’m hearing several directors, the Lead (Senior Audit Manager) position is effectively gone and those in the position were either demoted or laid off.

I’m also hearing PNC NMC next?!

I watched a Senior Director that was supposed to work all week go from green this morning to the gray x. Their schedule is blocked off indefinitely (I was going to schedule a meeting).

What are the tells?

I'll start:

I'll paraphrase because I can't remember the exact sentence but it was a director that said something along the lines that he will "get more involved" again after being a total no show for the least 5 years and later when the culling started fu---d over hundreds of people.

Hindsight is 20/20 but I really wish I'd asked him on that call what the fu-k he actually ment.

Zillow Group has announced significant layoffs, impacting 91 jobs in Washington state. The majority of these cuts are concentrated among senior-level employees, including directors and principal roles. Product and engineering departments are most affected, with senior positions like Product Manager and Software Development Engineer seeing the largest reductions. The company stated these changes are to better position Zillow for the future and move faster. Some terminations are also a result of relocating or contracting out operations.

Seattle, Washington

https://www.geekwire.com/2026/zillow-layoffs-hit-91-jobs-in-washington-state-with-senior-roles-bearing-the-brunt/

Started earlier this morning but VP, AVP, Sir Dir movement in Workday underway now.

I don't expect Associate Directors and Local Managers to be fully moved until later week(s) but we'll see.

Next round will be layoffs focused on VPs of all levels and Directors of all levels. Any director with a small number of direct reports to be fired.

Looks like another team may be on the chopping block tomorrow. Just received the “Business Update” email from Director.

There were several posts about the rumors of SMgr, AD, D & SD. Are they still on the target lists for the 2026-2027 RIFs?

BP ex-chair Manifold planned to remove Director Amanda Blanc

https://www.marketscreener.com/news/bp-ex-chair-manifold-planned-to-remove-director-amanda-blanc-ce7f51dcd889f52d

Job title downgrades coming for VPs of all levels and Directors of all levels. The company needs to save money and this is the logical way.

Does anyone have the bottom/top in the salary band for Director in Manchester?

Hot off the presses. Not really the presses; I found this out by accident via a careless senior employee. I’ll leave it at that.

Supporting Functions (Finance, HR, Legal, Gov. Affairs, Administrative Services, etc.) will see a RIF action. No timeline was mentioned. Names were not stated but roles were. Obviously I’m not going to mention those role titles because you can tell many of them are only held by one person. Eg if Nike has a role called “Director of Currency Transactions in Latin America” that probably means one specific person. I made that example up but you get the point.

It appears that like with prior layoffs there’s an emphasis on higher level roles. My surprising takeaway was the number of Director and higher positions in some of these orgs. For example one of these orgs is about 50% worker bees and 50% Directors or higher! This matches what I’ve seen in some Nike orgs where they became top-heavy when times were flush. Can’t have ten senior managers overseeing ten actual workers.

I can’t say I’m surprised. With a few exceptions I believe Supporting Functions has mostly avoided layoffs so far. It was going to be their turn eventually. Especially with those orgs that are top-heavy.

Its more like your position is not impacted it’s who you will be impacted. Happened to me

Today, announcements were made to directors regarding who will be assigned to the newly formed Tri-State region. Not a surprise at all—leaders who report to Trevose, a popular site in the Freedom Region for HQ employees who’d rather avoid central Philadelphia, were significantly more likely to retain their roles. From Keystone, only one VP was kept, and fewer than a third of directors were retained.

Well the news is out…. Over 250 stores, directors, sr directors…all because someone “accidentally” sent the email out today instead of tomorrow

Senior folks like Director level people like SMEs including engineering Prod owners were let go - this Friday is last day.

Just found out that a Director who is known for being a bully to her team, not a good leader and hard to work with was just promoted to an AVP. They are promoting the wrong people while laying off the ones who actually care and are servant leaders to the business.

If there’s a hiring freeze, why is there a new Director, Workforce Manangement, that’s just hired and announced starting today?

And why are first line managers Directors?

At most other companies Directors at least second line managers.

What are qualifications to become Director

Just had the new AVP for IHX on a call today and the hypocrisy was next-level.
He opened strong — energetic, excited, leaning hard into “we trust you to run your business” and “enabling leaders.” Sounded great. Then we got to slides 2 through 16: a long list of non-negotiables that basically scripted our entire day. So much for trust and autonomy.
The one that’s hardest to swallow: every associate director now has to be at their hub by 7:00 AM. No exceptions.
What are we supposed to do about our kids? School drop-offs, morning routines, actual family life? He literally preached work-life balance during the call, but anyone with basic math knows if you’re at the hub by 7, you’re not getting home until after 5 (and that’s assuming you leave right at 5 with zero wrap-up).
Who’s waking up at 4:30–5:00 AM every single day just to sit around until things actually start at 8:30? This isn’t enabling leaders. It’s the opposite.
This is yet another signal that T doesn’t actually care about employee wellbeing or retention. They talk a good game about trust and balance, then roll out blanket policies that ignore real life.
Anyone else in IHX getting this same message? How are people supposed to make this work long-term without burning out or just leaving?

Is that a bad look for the layoff list ?

When is it coming? It’s just suffocating to have 3 layers of directors over 5-6 individual contributors. They do not have much to do but to keep creating new sheets or presentations.
Also wasting time on 1:1s , team meetings at each director level. Why do they waste so much time?

Obviously a tiny part but heard that a Director and 2 AM’s got tagged earlier this week. Speculation is one of the AM’s got hit to save the Director a spot. When level bumping is being discussed it usually means things are getting real.

They are like Russian nesting dolls. Often they with 3-4 layers of directors reporting to one another and sadly none knows enough about their business or function to e mildly effective! Leadership at JPMC is much more streamlined and effective.