Director is a rank with very different meaning in the industry; I know people with this rank at Adobe, Amazon, Microsoft, in banks, FMCG and there is attempt from some companies to catch up with the naming of various positions versus the rest of the market, but it's gone wrong in some places, director being a pretty low position of what used to be mid level managers or worse. A "sales director" is many times just an inflated title to senior sales people with no budget to administer and no organization to manage, maybe leading a team of 2-3 junior sales guys. I know a bunch of IT directors that failed the interviews as entry level managers, so it is impossible to me to figure out what the real level of a rank is when the name is Director.
