Hiring Plan & Org Design for Funded Startups

Build a complete hiring plan for my startup. Use the following inputs: **Company Stage & Current ARR:** {&{STAGE_AND_ARR}} **Funding Amount Just Raised:** {&{FUNDING_RAISED}} **Runway (months):** {&{RUNWAY}} **Current Team (roles + headcount):** {&{CURRENT_TEAM}} **Top 3 Execution Priorities for This Round:** {&{PRIORITIES}} **Current Biggest Operational Bottleneck:** {&{BOTTLENECK}} --- Deliver the following: **1. Role Prioritization Ranking** List the top 6–8 roles to hire in priority order. For each: - Role title and scope (specific, not generic) - Hiring trigger (what business condition must be true before opening this role?) - Generalist vs. specialist call - Cost of delay: what is the monthly revenue or execution impact of this role being unfilled? **2. 18-Month Hiring Roadmap** Group hires into 3 phases: Months 1–3 / Months 4–9 / Months 10–18. For each phase, show: roles being opened, rationale for timing, cumulative headcount and payroll burn. **3. Org Chart Design** Describe the org structure at: [Today] → [6 months] → [18 months]. For each snapshot: who reports to whom, what functions exist, and what structural shift happens at each phase. **4. Critical First Hire Brief** For the #1 priority hire: provide a 5-point interview scorecard (the 5 specific capabilities you must evaluate) and the 1 disqualifying signal that rules out a candidate regardless of other strengths. **5. Hiring Risk** Name the single most dangerous hiring mistake this company could make in the next 6 months (wrong role, wrong level, wrong timing) and explain why.