How Would You Structure an Electronics Design Startup for Success? Seeking Your Advice!

Our company is an electronic design startup, and I am a director here. We offer services in the following areas:

- Electronics systems design
- Complete electronics product development
- Embedded design
- PCB design, PCBA turnkey solution, manufacturing support
- PCB Prototyping as a proof of concept

We cater to various industries such as Aeronautics, Automotive, Consumer electronics/multimedia, Defense, Power, Health, IoT, Railway, Space, and Telecom.

I am currently in need of hiring staff. I would appreciate your assistance in designing a perfect organizational structure with different department names and key positions to fill at the initial stage. This will ensure that we meet our business objectives smoothly.

One tiny point if I may:

There is no such thing as a "perfect" organizational structure. Having that mindset will limit your ability to do anything.

As Dinesh has perfectly said, we do not work for your organization, so we are not in a position to guide you.

Consult your business plan and develop the organizational structure to meet the aims of the plan. As a start-up, you will not need a lot of people to begin with, but your plan needs to have provision for the company's future needs.

Instead of thinking about perfect, concentrate on what you need to get the company functioning effectively and profitably. Then you can look at expansion once you have the fundamentals in place. I would also suggest concentrating on actual workers who produce things, not on managers sitting at desks shuffling paper and in meetings all day.

Staffing Requirements for Organizational Planning

Your staffing mainly depends on your:

- Requirement of design engineers/CAD/CAE software-trained engineers.
- How many prototype assembly line staff are required initially, whether you propose to have a line concept or individual prototype assembly concept.
- CNC trained operators, if required.
- How many service engineers are required to take care of the customers, based on the documented check and control/rectification measures.
- How many overseers/supervisors you may initially require.

All the above are to be planned for designing an organizational chart, if I am correct. No outsiders would be in a position to design an organizational chart without the above planning/data.