The post-Series-A marketing team in 2026: 3 hires, not 7

Most post-Series-A founders try to hire 7 marketing roles in 12 months and burn $1.5M on a team that does not produce pipeline. The 3 hires that actually produce in 2026: senior generalist as VP of Marketing, performance lead with paid + tracking ownership, AI ops engineer for n8n + workflows. Hire fractional support around them.