Usually Head of X translates into a manager position although they may have no team. So it's like the manager version of a lead. >Still feels weird if you have

Usually Head of X translates into a manager position although they may have no team. So it's like the manager version of a lead. >Still feels weird if you have both a COO and a “Head of operations”, but I guess that’s a complex situation to start with. It's fairly common to have a CTO and a Head of Engineering but I'm not sure if there's that sort of responsibility split on operations as well. In the eng case, the HoE generally focuses on team management while the CTO focuses on strategy/architecture/whatever. Often the case when the CTO is a founder and no one wants to remove their title but they're not scaling as a manager.