Being Recruited for Management With 3 YOE: Normal?

I was a DS in academia for about 3 years. I recently started as a Lead Engineer (Data Engineer) at a consulting firm making $130K. I have a BS in Information Science and I am finishing up an MS in Data Science.

I am recently getting recruiters for data manager roles, managing data science teams. I only have 3 YOE. I haven’t even really worked a true DS job in industry. Is this normal? Is it a result of title …

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