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Ask HN: What are critical non-dev/sales roles at your startup?

3 pointsby racontabout 7 years ago
And how do you fill them?

1 comment

muzaniabout 7 years ago
I love how nobody answers this. It means dev and sales are the critical ones.<p>UX&#x2F;CX is often a huge one. People think this is just hiring a designer. Nope. The person in charge has to understand the customer experience end to end and be able to modify it very quickly based on new information.<p>This is usually the CEO, who has access to all the information from marketing, sales, engineering, analytics, investors, etc. Especially for the startup level it&#x27;s often the CEO who understands the problem and the users.<p>There&#x27;s also a lot of design decisions involved in UX. Bounce rate is almost entirely dependent on UX.<p>It can&#x27;t be outsourced either. You can have, say, a TV UX expert advise you in TV use cases or a e-commerce UX expert advise on ecommerce UX. The UX consultants have been the most expensive so far.<p>But past a point, only the people who deeply understand this company&#x27;s product and the user problems can properly do UX and CX.