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The roles

The roles you would open next. Covered from day one.

Every CEO at this size has written this list into a hiring plan, and cut it. Each seat is easy to justify on its own and impossible to fund together. Beacon covers all thirty-four.

34 roles 6 functions Working every working day None of them customer-facing
The plan you cut

You have written this list before. Then you cut it.

The budget
What each analyst costs, and how much room the year actually has for them.
The catch
Every seat is affordable. The list never is.
The hiring plan
Which roles the company needs next, ranked, with a start date against each one.
The catch
It gets cut from the bottom. Same names, every year.
The org chart
Who you have today, and which function each of them reports into.
Never shows
The work nobody was ever hired to do.
The seats stay empty. The work does not leave with the role. It gets spread across people who were hired to do something else — and it gets done last, or not at all.
The list

Thirty-four roles. Two ways to read them.

One is how you would write them into a hiring plan. The other is which system each one powers. Same thirty-four roles, regrouped.

Grouped by function

Finance and planning

6
FP&A analystFinancial planning managerRevenue analystCash and treasury analystPricing analystBoard reporting analyst

Data and reporting

5
Data analystBI and dashboard analystReconciliation analystMetrics definition ownerCohort and retention analyst

Revenue operations

6
Revenue operations managerSales operations analystDeal desk analystForecast analystTerritory and quota analystCRM operations analyst

Marketing and growth

6
Marketing analytics managerCampaign performance analystAttribution analystLead scoring analystDemand planning analystCompetitive research analyst

Customer and renewal

6
Customer success operations analystRenewal analystChurn and health analystExpansion and whitespace analystOnboarding programme analystSupport insights analyst

Capital and workforce

5
Corporate development analystInvestor relations analystScenario and capital planning analystWorkforce planning analystData-room and diligence analyst
Grouped by the system each one powers

Growth system

16
Revenue operations managerSales operations analystDeal desk analystTerritory and quota analystCRM operations analystMarketing analytics managerCampaign performance analystAttribution analystLead scoring analystCompetitive research analystCustomer success operations analystRenewal analystChurn and health analystExpansion and whitespace analystOnboarding programme analystSupport insights analyst

Finance system

7
FP&A analystFinancial planning managerRevenue analystCash and treasury analystPricing analystBoard reporting analystForecast analyst

The Engine

5
Data analystBI and dashboard analystReconciliation analystMetrics definition ownerCohort and retention analyst

Capital system

4
Corporate development analystInvestor relations analystScenario and capital planning analystData-room and diligence analyst

Capacity system

2
Workforce planning analystDemand planning analyst
Not one agent per job title. One system doing the work of all of them. Capacity is the smallest column here, and the reason the others are full — it is the system that plans and supplies the rest. Which of the thirty-four matters most depends on what your plan is short of, and Beacon works that out against your target rather than a template. How capacity is planned across the company →
The boundary

Three kinds of role Beacon will not claim.

The list is credible because of what is missing from it. These seats belong to people, and they stay that way.

Anything technical

Your CTO holds it

No engineering, product or platform roles. Beacon reads what your company does; it cannot tell you which technical people your product needs next.

Anything customer-facing

Your team holds it

No account executives, success managers, onboarding leads or support agents. Those are the seats a person holds, and the relationship is the job.

The head of the function

You hold it

Every one of the thirty-four sits under someone. You keep the head of each function — the judgement, the calls, the accountability. Beacon is the bench beneath them.

What you have

Six of these are staffed today. Twenty-eight are not.

At around $34M with 200 people, a company runs five of seven analytical functions — two of them thin, two that do not exist at all. Illustrative.

Staffed today — 6 Never funded — 28
FP&A analystFinancial planning managerData analystBI and dashboard analystRevenue operations managerSales operations analyst
The claim

You get all thirty-four.

What a fully staffed analytical bench costs to hire, and what it still cannot reach — Whole teams, already staffed →

What this buys

Work that was never getting done, getting done.

Nobody is replaced and nobody who was going to be hired is not hired. These seats were never funded — and now the work behind them happens anyway.

For you

Every question you would have handed to an analyst has an answer already waiting, instead of a queue and a date.

For your team

Nobody spends their week rebuilding a number that should already exist. The work they were hired for is the work they get to do.

For your board

The analysis behind the pack, not just the pack — segment, cohort, product and team, ready before anyone asks for it.

Start with capacity

The department you could never afford to open.

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