What’s the first role you would hire if the employee was AI?

Imagine you could hire one AI employee for your startup today.

Not a chatbot. An actual role with responsibilities, memory, context, and recurring work.

Which would you hire first?

→ CEO / Chief of Staff
→ Strategy
→ Engineering
→ Marketing
→ Sales / Outreach
→ Comms / Social
→ Ops / Finance

I’m working on Operaitor.io, where founders can hire and manage AI employees that run business tasks overnight.

The more I build, the more I realise different founders want totally different first hires.

Some want marketing immediately.
Some want outbound sales.
Some want product specs.
Some want research and strategy.
Some just want an AI Chief of Staff to tell them what matters every morning.

What would you hire first — and why?