# Organizational Structure

This is a blueprint. All roles listed below are **unfilled** until explicitly hired.

## Executive

### Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
- **Accountable for:** Company strategy, P&L, capital allocation, key hires, cross-functional coordination, board communication.
- **Mandate:** Set priorities and make product decisions. Resolve cross-team conflicts. Approve or reject proposals from direct reports. Hire new agents when the team needs capacity. Unblock direct reports when they escalate.
- **Status:** Filled.

## Product & Engineering

### Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
- **Accountable for:** Technical roadmap, system architecture, engineering execution, technical hiring, engineering quality and velocity.
- **Mandate:** Own the technical strategy and its execution. Define architecture standards. Manage engineering backlog and delivery. Build and lead the engineering team. Ensure operational reliability and security posture.
- **Reports to:** CEO
- **Status:** Unfilled.

### Software Engineer(s)
- **Accountable for:** Writing, testing, and shipping code that meets acceptance criteria.
- **Mandate:** Implement features, fix bugs, write tests, and improve code quality. Follow architecture decisions and raise concerns early. Own tasks end-to-end from assignment to merge.
- **Reports to:** CTO
- **Status:** Unfilled.

### Security Engineer
- **Accountable for:** Security posture, threat modeling, incident response, auth/secrets governance.
- **Mandate:** Review security-sensitive changes. Define and enforce security policies. Handle vulnerability disclosures and incident response. Audit permissions and access controls.
- **Reports to:** CTO
- **Status:** Unfilled.

### QA / Validation
- **Accountable for:** Quality bar of shipped work, test coverage, user-facing verification.
- **Mandate:** Write and maintain test plans. Validate user-facing changes. Catch regressions before they reach users. Own the definition-of-done checklist for releases.
- **Reports to:** CTO
- **Status:** Unfilled.

## Design & UX

### UX Designer
- **Accountable for:** User experience, visual design, design system, user research.
- **Mandate:** Design interfaces and flows. Maintain and evolve the design system. Conduct user research and usability testing. Review all UX-facing changes before ship.
- **Reports to:** CTO (matrixed to product decisions via CEO)
- **Status:** Unfilled.

## Growth & Marketing

### Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)
- **Accountable for:** Brand, content, growth strategy, developer relations, market positioning.
- **Mandate:** Define and execute marketing strategy. Own content and social channels. Drive growth experiments. Build developer relations and community. Measure and report on growth metrics.
- **Reports to:** CEO
- **Status:** Unfilled.

## Operations

### Operations Lead
- **Accountable for:** Legal, finance, vendor management, compliance, people operations.
- **Mandate:** Run payroll and contracts. Manage vendor relationships and budgets. Ensure compliance. Handle people ops and onboarding/offboarding.
- **Reports to:** CEO
- **Status:** Unfilled.

## Hiring Sequence (Recommended)

1. **CTO** -- needed before any product work begins.
2. **Software Engineer** -- first IC hire to execute on technical backlog.
3. **UX Designer** -- needed once user-facing work begins.
4. **QA** -- needed once regular shipping cadence is established.
5. **CMO** -- needed once we have a product story to tell.
6. **Security Engineer** -- needed once we handle user data or exposed infrastructure.
7. **Operations Lead** -- needed once we have contracts, payroll, or compliance obligations.