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Ask HN: What does your org chart look like?

I'm interested in knowing what senior level roles you have in your organisation, and more importantly why. How essential is a CTO? Where do you put the boundary between "operations" and "development", or do you go full devops?
( 4 comments | 7 points | on HN )
Re:Ask HN: What does your org chart look like? by tixocloud on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @09:01AM (#15400119)
For a previous role at a fintech company, we did have a CTO and a few engineering managers managing each of the various tech teams. In our organization, we had web development, operations, integration (which builds development tools and sets up testing infrastructure), internal development (builds admin tools), product development (consisting of web, mobile and other business-specific dev teams)

I think the necessity of the CTO depends on the technical savyness of the other executives although an effective CTO will always be able to highlight challenges the tech teams are facing, lobby for resources when necessary and provide sufficient support to make sure the tech side of things is working well.

Re:Ask HN: What does your org chart look like? by kull on Saturday October 07, 2017 @08:01PM (#15426327)
3 co founders , one of them acting as cto for 6 people dev team , other 2 co founders do legal and marketing. Below 3 co founders we have 3 managers managing a support team (they also do support themself). We do not have sales , growing organically for now.
Re:Ask HN: What does your org chart look like? by EXueBRJ9d on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @05:45PM (#15404989)
I asked about org structure options for growing companies recently, but didn't get any responses: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15006425

Hope this post has better traction. Look forward to the answers.

Re:Ask HN: What does your org chart look like? by brianwawok on Sunday October 08, 2017 @08:48AM (#15428010)
How big are you, and what are the cofounders core skills?

Getting a 500 person org setup founded by 3 lawyers would not apply to a 3 person startup founded by engineers.