How do I show one person in two roles?

Put both in one box and mark it as a shared role. Two boxes for the same person make the chart harder to read.

What do investors look for?

How the core team divides the work and whether key roles are filled. Keep founders in the top two levels and mark open roles clearly.

Can I put names in the boxes?

Yes. Add a line break and the name, such as P[Product Manager Alex].

Startup organizational chart template

Previewed in the “Gradient” theme; you can switch themes in the editor

When to use it

Use it for the team slide of a pitch deck, to show new hires who owns what, or to plan the next roles to fill. People in small companies wear several hats, so the chart marks shared roles, contractors and open positions, which is more honest than a chart that looks bigger than the team.

Make it yours

Replace the roles with your own and write headcount in the box.
Click an open position to give it a different color so the hiring plan stands out.
Past about fifty people, split each line into its own department chart.

Mermaid code

startup-org-chart.mmd

flowchart LR
    CEO[CEO and Founder]
    CEO --- CTO[CTO and Co-founder]
    CEO --- G[Growth and Marketing]
    CEO --- S[Sales and Customer Success]
    CEO --- O[Operations]
    CTO --- P[Product Manager]
    CTO --- E1[Frontend Engineers x2]
    CTO --- E2[Backend Engineers x3]
    CTO --- D[Designer]
    G --- G1[Content and Social]
    G --- G2[Paid Acquisition - hiring]
    S --- S1[Account Executives x2]
    S --- S2[Customer Success]
    O --- O1[Finance and HR - shared role]
    O --- O2[Office Admin - contractor]

Ask an AI for one with this structure

Send the prompt below to ChatGPT or Claude, then paste the whole reply into the editor; the code inside is detected automatically.

prompt.txt

Draw a startup organizational chart with Mermaid flowchart LR syntax. The CEO is on the left, with the CTO, growth and marketing, sales and customer success, and operations to the right. Under the CTO are a product manager, frontend engineers, backend engineers and a designer. Growth has content and social and paid acquisition; sales has account executives and customer success; operations has finance and HR and an office admin. Connect levels with ---; headcount and hiring notes may be written in the text, with no parentheses. Output only the mermaid code block.

FAQ

How do I show one person in two roles?: Put both in one box and mark it as a shared role. Two boxes for the same person make the chart harder to read.
What do investors look for?: How the core team divides the work and whether key roles are filled. Keep founders in the top two levels and mark open roles clearly.
Can I put names in the boxes?: Yes. Add a line break and the name, such as P[Product Manager<br/>Alex].

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Updated 2026-11-11