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Executive Skill Check — what the market requires of senior leaders

A free benchmark of what companies actually require from executives, built from real Director-and-above job postings. For 65+ roles see the capabilities that define the role, the hard skills named most often, the scope expected, experience and pay — filterable by country, industry and company size. By TOPHEADS.

Skills by role

  • CEO / Managing Director skills
  • Head of Strategy skills
  • Partner skills
  • COO skills
  • Head of M&A / Corp Dev skills
  • Chief Medical Officer skills
  • Chief Digital Officer skills
  • VP Finance skills
  • CFO skills
  • Director of FP&A skills
  • Head of Treasury skills
  • Controller / Chief Accounting skills
  • Head of Internal Audit skills
  • Head of Investor Relations skills
  • Head of Quantitative Research skills
  • Chief Actuary skills
  • VP Engineering skills
  • CISO skills
  • Head of Platform / Infra skills
  • CIO skills
  • CTO skills
  • Director of DevOps / SRE skills
  • Director of Engineering skills
  • Principal Engineer skills
  • Principal / Chief Architect skills
  • VP Data & Analytics skills
  • Head of AI / ML skills
  • Head of BI / Analytics skills
  • Head of Data Science skills
  • Head of Data Engineering skills
  • Chief Data Officer skills
  • Chief AI Officer skills
  • VP Product skills
  • Director of Design / UX skills
  • Director of Product skills
  • CPO skills
  • VP Sales skills
  • Head of Partnerships / BD skills
  • Head of Customer Success skills
  • CRO skills
  • Director of Sales skills
  • Director of RevOps skills
  • VP Marketing skills
  • Head of Growth skills
  • Head of Communications / PR skills
  • Head of Brand skills
  • CMO skills
  • Director of Marketing skills
  • VP People / HR skills
  • Director of Talent Acquisition skills
  • Head of L&D skills
  • CHRO / Chief People Officer skills
  • Head of Total Rewards / C&B skills
  • Head of Compliance skills
  • Head of Risk skills
  • Head of Legal skills
  • CLO / General Counsel skills
  • Director of Regulatory skills
  • Data Protection Officer skills
  • Head of Financial Crime / AML skills
  • VP Operations skills
  • Director of Operations skills
  • Head of Supply Chain skills
  • Head of Procurement skills
  • Head of Workplace / Facilities skills