Pros
For what the job is, the pay wasn’t substandard – once negotiated – although the benefits package was.
Co-workers are cooperative, supportive, generally drama-free.
Cons
When I was hired (without being told of the true turnover of the role – 3 people in 2 years, including me), the metaphor was one of “spokes on a wheel”, where you’d be tied into what everyone else was doing – I quickly realized the reality was more like being the hub of a propeller, where the tips are spinning at close to the speed of sound with absolutely no awareness of what any of the other tips were doing.
With not enough product to go around and multiple internal priorities all competing for the same items, expect this role to continue to have none of the authority required to actually solve the systemic problems while receiving all of the blame for the results. It felt as if I had six bosses – since I never saw an org chart for the time I was there, I have no evidence to the contrary – and with two of those bosses in Florida and the UK, you would’ve thought communication would be paramount. Instead, meetings were routinely set up and attendees absent. It was just part of an overall sense of confusion that permeated most day-to-day operations.