Executive Summary
- Start with the roles that unblock everyone else: a team lead and an operations anchor.
- Hire senior before junior so early people define standards instead of inheriting them.
- Delay specialist roles until the work actually needs them.
Sequence, Not Headcount
The first twenty hires are an architecture problem, not a headcount problem. The order you hire in determines whether the team can operate day to day without a foreign HQ managing every detail.
The First Roles That Matter
A local lead who can make day-to-day calls, and a people-ops anchor who keeps payroll, compliance and onboarding running, buy everyone else the room to focus on the product.
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