What to look for when you’re hiring a Head of Growth at andrewchen

- " it’s harder to be the head of growth because you have convince the people instead of commanding them to cooperate with objectives/goals ."

Takeaways:

1. Sales becomes the second most common hire , after engineering.


2. A quarter of companies hired a product manager at this point.


3. Recruiters become a surprisingly common hire. I did not expect that. This is particularly true across some of the most unique startups, like Linear, Figma, Ramp, and Coda. Here’s Jori Lallo, co-founder of Linear,

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- At the heart of every company there is a growth engine with a test/learn process. - When growth is in your títle you better be growing or you’re not doing your job right. 

"This is one of the most common mistakes among new product teams when I ask "How does your product grow?" The answer is typically a long list of turbo boosts. It is typically because there is no hypothesis on what the growth engine is, and as a result they are compensating by trying to cobble together a lot of little things." - Brian Balfour (Found... See more