Usually this is the “leads the function but we’re not going let them into the c-suite”. The head of engineering gets usurped by the outside cto hire and put out to pasture.
As a former Head of Mobile, I agree.
Oh, that explains the Microsoft Chief Accessibility Officer. No power.
Isn’t Microsoft pretty great with accessibility?
It seems like a weird choice, I would expect that person to have quite a bit of power.