Creating a struct from array

I have an Employee struct which looks like this:

type Employee struct {
  firstName string
  lastName  string
  role      string
}

I read from an Excel file a row, which has the corresponding columns in the same order.
From the excel file I created an array that holds this data, so the array looks like this:

[personFirstName, personLastName, personRole]

And I want to initialize my Employee struct with it.
But I can't figure out how, because I can't iterate over the Employee struct like it's an array.
I thought about doing it manually, like this:

e := {
  firstName: array[0],
  lastName: array[1],
  role: array[2],
}

But I guess there should be a better way.
Any Ideas?

There's nothing wrong with the code in the question. Here's how to use the reflect API to accomplish the goal:

Export the field to make the fields settable through the reflect API.

type Employee struct {
	FirstName string
	LastName  string
	Role      string
}

Create reflect value for an employee. The & and Elem()
shenanigans are required to get a settable value.

var e Employee
v := reflect.ValueOf(&e).Elem()

For each field, set the string:

for i := 0; i < v.NumField(); i++ {
	v.Field(i).SetString(values[i])
}

Run an example on the Go Playground.

Put the code in a function if you need it in more than one place:

// setStrings sets the fields of the struct pointed 
// to by ptr to the specified values.
func setStrings(ptr interface{}, values []string) {
	v := reflect.ValueOf(ptr).Elem()
	for i := 0; i < v.NumField(); i++ {
		v.Field(i).SetString(values[i])
	}
}

Call it like this:

values := []string{"Monica", "Smith", "Manager"}
var e Employee
setStrings(&e, values)
fmt.Printf("%+v\n", e) // prints {FirstName:Monica LastName:Smith Role:Manager} 

Run an example on the playground.