What is the highest level in IT Management? CTO? IT Director? or something else?

The higest level in IT and CFO Chief technology officer is actually has a significant  role of technology in strategic business.whose responsibilities include 

monitoring new technologies and assessing their potential to become new products or 

services, overseeing the selection of research projects to insure that they have the 

potential to add value to the company, providing reliable technical assessments of 

potential mergers and acquisitions, explaining company products and future plans to the 

trade media, and participating in government, academic, and industry groups where there 

are opportunities to promote the company’s reputation and to capture valuable data. 

Depends on company Chart, i think highest lvl of IT roll is "Head Of IT"

CIO.....Cheif information officer

A director by definition is a manager.  A director would be a higher ranking manager, i.e. a manager of managers.  Typically a company's management structure will break down like the following:

A manager will manage a group of workers.

There may be a senior manager who manages a number of managers.

A director will manage the senior managers or the managers.

A vice president (VP) or department head will manage a group of directors.

A senior vice president or executive vice president will manage other VPs.

Then you will have a president or chief executive officer (CEO) on the top.

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