What does "Experience as a superior" mean? In the process of applying for a particular faculty position in computer science in Finnland, I got stuck when answering the question


  Experience as a superior


The choices from the dropdown menu are


No experience
Less than 1 year
1-2 years
2-5 years
5-10 years
over 10 years


What could they mean exactly by "a superior"? (Before you cane me: yes, I  asked my contact but have not recieved an answer yet.)
As a Finn, and without further context, I read that as leadership experience. I would translate "superior" as "esimies". Esimies is Finnish for superior (of someone at work, in the sense that they are responsible and have power over other people; not in the sense that they are superior as human beings or scientists or anything like that). Have you lead a research group or supervised PhD students? Have you been the principal investigator of some project?

I don't think there is any precise definition available.

If the recruitment system is also available in Finnish or Swedish, you might also look at the equivalent term there and check what it means.