I am not very good at titles
December 17, 2011 9:49 AM   Subscribe

Please help me come up with a job title that reflects the two distinct but important roles I play in my company: sex educator and customer service manager.

So I work for a very small sex toy company, and each of us who works there wears several hats. I wear a bunch, but the two most visible roles I play (and the two both my boss and I would like to highlight to the rest of the industry/world) are Sex Educator and Customer Service Manager. As Sex Educator I write educational content for our website, advise customers on buying and using our products, and advise our buyer on what products to carry and how to promote them. As Customer Service Manager, I manage all the customer service aspects of the business.

My boss wants me to have some sort of interesting or clever job title that magically combines both of these things. I'm not very good at clever titles, and haven't gotten past Sex Educator/Customer Service Manager (which I would be perfectly fine with on my business card). Do you have any better ideas? Anything with the word "Sexpert" is out, but anything else is fair game!
posted by rhiannonstone to Work & Money (16 answers total)
 
Best answer: Customer Education Manager?
posted by chesty_a_arthur at 10:03 AM on December 17, 2011


Customer Servicing Manager
posted by benzenedream at 10:08 AM on December 17, 2011 [3 favorites]


Best answer: Education and Services Manager?

Customer Advisor?

Sex Solution* Provider

*the word solution is my marketing bête noir, but I think it works here, because you solve a variety of sex problems. Also you may provide solids dissolved in liquids, depending on your lube selection. In which case, double win!

Also, using the "many hats" metaphor in this context led me to picture some pretty fantastic hats, for the record.
posted by chesty_a_arthur at 10:10 AM on December 17, 2011


Best answer: "Customer Support Manager"

"Senior Kamasutrist" (playful, if somewhat obscure and unorthodox)

"Director of Product Placement" (drab, but with a potential pun lurking in there)
posted by darkstar at 10:10 AM on December 17, 2011 [1 favorite]


Best answer: Manager of Education and Customer Support
posted by decathecting at 10:15 AM on December 17, 2011 [3 favorites]


Just an afterthought: you may love the company, but may not end up working there forever. You might want a title that will make you more marketable in future job applications. Having a more mainstream title that showcases your experience and talents may be more helpful in the long run. That would argue in favor of titles like "Customer Support Manager" or "Director of Customer Service", rather than going for something that's perhaps a bit risqué. Just a thought.
posted by darkstar at 10:18 AM on December 17, 2011 [3 favorites]


How about Community Manager? That would reflect both roles and emphasize that the customers are a community that need both customer service and education.
posted by iamscott at 10:25 AM on December 17, 2011


Response by poster: darkstar, that's a good point, but it's not a concern for me. I don't plan to work in adult retail forever, but my chosen field is sexual health education, so risque job titles don't present a problem to my future employability. And I can always tweak the job title to something that won't raise any eyebrows if I do find myself needing to apply for a more conservative job; I already have a copy of my resume where all instances of "Sexual Health Educator" are replaced with "Health Educator" and I emphasize my experience teaching workshops on relationships and communication rather than my experience teaching workshops on BDSM and polyamory.
posted by rhiannonstone at 10:31 AM on December 17, 2011


Ah, gotcha! Then I'd definitely play up the education aspect of it, since that ties in nicely with the rest of your resume. So something along the lines of decathecting's suggestion, perhaps "Customer Education and Support Manager" or "Director of Customer Education and Support". Those emphasize both the education and the managerial responsibility, which could be helpful in your current position as well as any future job application.
posted by darkstar at 10:41 AM on December 17, 2011


I seem to recall that everyone at Babeland had clever titles. I think the retail workers were "Pleasure Consultants." Nevertheless, I bet you could call and ask.
posted by Skwirl at 12:08 PM on December 17, 2011 [1 favorite]


Something with 'outreach', perhaps?

Director of Pleasure Education and Outreach
Community Outreach and Experience Manager
posted by ApathyGirl at 2:40 PM on December 17, 2011


Best answer: Sexual Experience Engineer
posted by alby at 2:51 PM on December 17, 2011


Best answer: Sexual Health Specialist
posted by theora55 at 4:29 PM on December 17, 2011


Pleasure Management Consultant?
posted by springbound at 6:54 PM on December 17, 2011


Best answer: Pleasure Principal
posted by springbound at 7:19 PM on December 17, 2011 [1 favorite]


Resident Venus/Aphrodite?
posted by bitteroldman at 8:38 AM on December 18, 2011


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