senior staff
Experienced management team
Senior staff are the highest-ranking employees in an organization, typically those reporting directly to top leadership.
The term often appears in political contexts—a president's senior staff, a governor's senior staff—but applies to any workplace hierarchy: She joined the company as an intern and worked her way up to senior staff.
Distinguished from junior or support staff by authority, experience, and decision-making power.
- managementOrganizing and directing resources
- executivesSenior corporate officers
- executive teamOrganization's top decision-makers
- leadershipAbility to direct others
- directorsThose who lead organizations
key players · supervisors · veterans · seasoned · experienced · institutional memory · tenure · hierarchy · boardroom · corner office · top brass · mentors · authority · decision-makers · managers · administrators · old guard · old hands
- hierarchyrank, ranked, authority, command, tiered
- ranksrank and file, enlisted ranks, tier one, officer rank, tier two
- workplace termspromotion, raise, bonus, manager, supervisor
- aging workforceaging workforce, older workers, mature workers, baby boomers, age discrimination
- civil servicecivil servants, bureaucrat, civil servant, administrator, clerk
- jobsdoctor, administrator, lawyer, teacher, nurse
senior staffjunior staff
Low-ranking employees
subordinates · support staff · assistants · clerical staff · interns
senior staffnewcomers
Those recently arrived
rookies · beginners · novices · apprentices · fresh recruits
senior, staff, seniors, seniority, staffs, staffed, staffing, staffer, staffers