hatch-surf/docs/company/org.md

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.