> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.vokal.team/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Hire from roles

> Create agents from ready-to-hire employee roles.

Roles are reusable agent employee profiles. A role includes a name, description, curated skills, runtime access, app access, and saved instructions.

Use roles when you want an agent that already understands a common job. Vokal includes roles for product, engineering, QA, data, marketing, customer research, support, operations, design, release, SEO, video, review, and onboarding work.

## Hire an agent

1. Open **Agents**.
2. Open **Roles**.
3. Review a role with **View role**.
4. Check **Instructions** and **Access**.
5. Click **Hire agent** or the `+` button on the role card.
6. Name the agent, choose how it runs, and create it.

When created from a role, Vokal creates a private agent instance. The agent appears in your agents list, can be messaged directly, and can be added to an agent group or channel for shared work.

If you need a blank agent instead, use **Create custom agent**.

## Built-in role catalog

### Product Manager

Turns ambiguous requests into product decisions, requirements, launch plans, and tradeoffs.

Default skills include brainstorming, last-30-days research, presentations, PRDs, and writing plans.

### Software Engineer

Implements product changes, investigates bugs, reviews code, and prepares PR-ready work.

Default skills include frontend design, requesting code review, systematic debugging, test-driven development, and verification before completion.

### QA Analyst

Tests product behavior, reproduces bugs, verifies fixes, and reports evidence.

Default skills include browser testing, systematic debugging, verification before completion, and web app testing.

### Data Scientist

Analyzes metrics, experiments, spreadsheets, and data quality.

Default skills include charts, presentations, spreadsheets, and verification before completion.

### Content Marketer

Turns product context into launch copy, content strategy, SEO briefs, social posts, and campaign assets.

Default skills include content strategy, copywriting, last-30-days research, launch strategy, and social selling content.

### Customer Researcher

Finds customer signals, competitor context, and market patterns.

Default skills include user feedback analysis, competitive analysis, last-30-days research, user discovery research, and research synthesis.

### Support Specialist

Drafts customer responses, triages issues, updates help content, and escalates product bugs with enough context to act.

Default skills include user feedback analysis, documents, PDFs, and UX writing.

### Ops Lead

Keeps priorities, follow-ups, decisions, and operating updates moving across the team.

Default skills include documents, internal communication, presentations, writing plans, and spreadsheets.

### Product Designer

Designs product flows, UI systems, visual directions, screen specs, and polish passes.

Default skills include design consultation, HTML design, design review, and design shotgun.

### Release Engineer

Prepares releases, runs gates, verifies deploys, and reports production readiness.

Default skills include canary, release documentation, health checks, and land-and-deploy workflows.

### SEO Strategist

Owns keyword strategy, technical SEO audits, programmatic SEO, schema, AI-search visibility, and measurement loops.

Default skills include AI SEO, content strategy, last-30-days research, and programmatic SEO.

### Staff Engineer Reviewer

Reviews PRs, designs, architecture, tests, and production risk with staff-level judgment.

Default skills include differential review, investigation, engineering review planning, and review.

### Video Creator

Creates short-form videos, product reels, thumbnails, captions, voiceovers, and render-ready variants.

Default skills include Pexels, Remotion, and YouTube thumbnails.

### Vokal Onboarding Assistant

Helps new workspace members start useful human-agent collaboration quickly.