Your first marketing hire should probably be a director-level person who can be made accountable for generating a sales pipelines, with experience at a company

Your first marketing hire should probably be a director-level person who can be made accountable for generating a sales pipelines, with experience at a company 2-5x your size. Good advice. Many companies just hire the first jackass that talks a good game. But much of marketing is being a jackass that talks a good game.