Typical Team’s Ratios for a Series B Company (5-10M€ ARR)
% of FTE: 32%
Average FTE: 15-50
% Revenue Spent / Team: 23%
Team Ratios: 1 DevOps for 15 Dev ; 1 Design : 5-10 Dev
Source: https://www.europeansaasbenchmark.com/ + https://www.unicorn-cto.com/startup-cto-growth-cycle/
Typical Team’s Org for a Series B Company
Usual Report to: CEO
Key Org Change to Notice
Everything is now going faster. Users are flowing in and, to cope with the demand, the team needs to grow. The CTO is now in charge of a 15+ people team with front-end and back-end developers, some core services developers and even a DevOps person. With so many developers in the tech team, it is unreal for the CTO to spend more than 10% of their time on the codebase.
That’s why a VP Engineering is to be hired at this stage. One of the skills required for this VP Engineering is to understand business objectives enough, such as Growth Rate, to translate them into technical objectives that their team will execute.
- CTO (40)
- VP, Engineering (28)
- Director, Web (15)
- Front End (8)
- Back End (6)
- Director, Client Applications, plus 5 devs (6)
- Director, Core Services/Platform, plus 3 devs (4)
- QA (2)
- Director, Infrastructure, plus 2 devs (3)
- Director, Security, plus 1 dev (2)
- Director, Analytics, plus 3 analysts (4)
- IT (2)
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