{
 "id": "14.4",
 "title": "Hiring plan",
 "department": "People and ways of working",
 "department_slug": "people-and-ways-of-working",
 "direction": null,
 "branded": false,
 "status": "needs-you",
 "owner": "Param",
 "last_verified": "Mon Oct 26",
 "holds": "Roles, when, why",
 "urls": {
  "html": "https://handbook.joinsquareup.com/people-and-ways-of-working/hiring-plan",
  "markdown": "https://handbook.joinsquareup.com/people-and-ways-of-working/hiring-plan.md",
  "json": "https://handbook.joinsquareup.com/people-and-ways-of-working/hiring-plan.json"
 },
 "other_directions": [],
 "tldr": {
  "headline": "No hiring plan exists yet, so here is one built on triggers",
  "points": [
   {
    "icon": "people",
    "text": "The team is Param, Sai and Arvind, and no role, budget or job description exists."
   },
   {
    "icon": "warn",
    "text": "Only Param can promote to production and restore it, which is a single point of failure."
   },
   {
    "icon": "flag",
    "text": "Proposed trigger: two partners agree to pay, or Param's open items pile up."
   },
   {
    "icon": "gear",
    "text": "Proposed first hire: a senior full-stack engineer who can run production."
   }
  ],
  "stat": {
   "value": "30",
   "label": "open items trigger a hire"
  },
  "decide": "What triggers the first hire, and is it a senior full-stack engineer?",
  "mood": "waiting"
 },
 "sources": [
  "handbook/AGENTS.md:6",
  "memory brew-handbook, brew-pricing-parked (index line), brew-live-stores, brew-prod-backend"
 ],
 "open_questions": [
  "**What triggers the first hire?** Proposal: when two design partners agree to pay, or when Param owns more than 30 open items in Next for two weeks running.",
  "**What is the first role?** Proposal: a senior full-stack engineer who can run production: promote, restore, on call, and review Claude sessions' work. It removes the single point of failure.",
  "**What comes second?** Proposal: a design partner success person, once there are more than eight brands.",
  "**Contractors before hires?** Proposal: yes for illustration of the picked brand direction; see [Contractors and agencies](/people-and-ways-of-working/contractors-and-agencies)."
 ],
 "parts": {
  "Answer": "No hiring plan exists in any source, so this page states that plainly and proposes when, what and why to hire, tied to the design partnership and the first paying brands, for Param to decide.",
  "Today": "- The team is Param, Sai and Arvind. [src: handbook/AGENTS.md:6] [src: memory brew-handbook]\n- No role, budget, timeline or job description for a new hire appears in any note, document or plan we read. [src: memory brew-handbook]\n- Five design partners are on production; pricing is parked until after the design partnership. [src: memory brew-live-stores] [src: memory brew-pricing-parked]\n- Only Param can promote to production and restore it today; that is a single point of failure. [src: memory brew-prod-backend]",
  "Tomorrow": "| Item | Version | Tag |\n|---|---|---|\n| A written hiring plan with triggers, not dates | v1 | New, see Open |\n| First hire | v2 | New, Param's call |",
  "How we do it": "Proposed rules for any hire:\n1. A role is opened only when a trigger below is met and the money for 12 months is in the bank.\n2. Each role gets one handbook page: what they own, what success looks like at 90 days, who they report to.\n3. Every new person goes through [Onboarding a teammate](/people-and-ways-of-working/onboarding-a-teammate).",
  "Numbers": "| Metric | Definition | Where measured |\n|---|---|---|\n| Months of runway | Cash over monthly spend | Finance, Proposed |\n| Load on Param | Open items in Next owned by Param | Next, Proposed |",
  "Open": "1. **What triggers the first hire?** Proposal: when two design partners agree to pay, or when Param owns more than 30 open items in Next for two weeks running.\n2. **What is the first role?** Proposal: a senior full-stack engineer who can run production: promote, restore, on call, and review Claude sessions' work. It removes the single point of failure.\n3. **What comes second?** Proposal: a design partner success person, once there are more than eight brands.\n4. **Contractors before hires?** Proposal: yes for illustration of the picked brand direction; see [Contractors and agencies](/people-and-ways-of-working/contractors-and-agencies)."
 }
}