Jason M. Lemkin breaks down the management hires startups need as they scale. Bring in a VP of Engineering to support your CTO, add mid-level managers, and hire Directors of Product and Design. Once you can afford specialized roles like user researchers and copywriters, your sales and marketing teams can expand too.
By this point you're absolutely going to need a VP of engineering. This is somebody who helps a CTO with the actual managing of the organization. You know, it's pretty commonly the case that the co founder or CTO is chosen because of their technical chops and vision. They may not have the management experience to run 100 person organization. You're going to need to supplement this with a more experienced engineering manager. The teams themselves are the same, they've just gotten bigger and you're now going to need a lot more mid level management. Same thing over in the product organization. You're probably going to need a Director of Product management. You're going to need a director of design. But you can also afford some super specialized roles, like people who are doing user research. Even like a dedicated copywriter, you can start to do things like that Sales and marketing. So.
