Plan hiring against budget and priorities — model the roles, approve the requisitions, and track each open headcount from approved to filled.
Founders and leaders allocating headcount across teams.
Quick answer
The Headcount planning template is a ready-made workspace for Founders and leaders allocating headcount across teams.
Headcount planning template in short
Included when you apply it
Applying this template creates the 1 board below — with every list — and pre-loads 3 sample issues, all yours to edit. The automation rules further down are suggestions you can wire up next; they aren't created for you yet.
A preview of how this template lays out — the boards, their custom workflow states, and where the sample issues land. WIP caps show a badge.
Headcount
Senior backend engineer — Q3 platform roadmap
Justification: blocks the API-v2 initiative without it.
Second product designer — backfill + growth
Model fully-loaded cost of the proposed Q3 hires
These rules aren't created when you apply the template — they're recipes you can wire up in Settings → Automations once your board exists.
When
A headcount is 'Approved req'
Then
Open the linked hiring-pipeline issue and notify the recruiter
When
A req is 'Filled'
Then
Update the plan-vs-actual headcount tracker and the budget model
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