# Plan the roles and hiring order for a new team

Which roles a new team needs, which to hire first and why, and how to cover gaps while the team ramps up.

- Topic: Leadership & Management
- Framework: RTF
- Level: Standard
- Tags: HR & Hiring, Plan, Fill-in Template, Step-by-step
- Source: https://www.thinkwithprompt.com/prompts/plan-the-roles-and-hiring-order-for-a-new-team

## Prompt

```text
Help me decide which roles my new team needs and in what order to hire them. This is step 2 of the 'Build a new team from scratch' pack; paste the team charter from step 1 if you have it.

**Team mission and first-year goals:** [SUMMARY, or paste step 1]
**Approved headcount and budget:** [DETAILS]
**People already on the team (including me):** [ROLES and strengths]
**Work that needs doing in the first 6 months:** [LIST]
**Realistic hiring speed:** [e.g. "one hire a month"]
**Step 1 output (optional):** [PASTE]

Work through:
1. The work broken into capability areas, marking which are core (need in-house) and which we can borrow, contract out, or share with another team.
2. Proposed roles: title, level, one-line purpose, key outcomes. Leave out roles that only make sense once the team is bigger.
3. Hiring order with reasoning: who unblocks the most work first, and the senior/junior balance at each stage.
4. A timeline showing hires, ramp-up time, and when the team reaches real capacity.
5. Gaps I'll need to cover myself or with contractors in the meantime.
6. Risks: single points of failure, too many junior people without support, overlapping roles.

Return a table of roles in hiring order, a short rationale, and the first role I should open this month.
```

## What to fill in

- SUMMARY, or paste step 1
- DETAILS
- ROLES and strengths
- LIST
- e.g. "one hire a month"
- PASTE

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