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Head of Growth

Podcastle

Podcastle

Sales & Business Development
London, UK
Posted on Oct 17, 2024

Head of Growth

London
Hybrid
Growth
About the company:

Podcastle is a groundbreaking AI-driven platform that facilitates collaborative podcast creation, catering to both seasoned professionals and aspiring enthusiasts. Our mission is to make storytelling through broadcast media accessible to all by providing user-friendly yet professional-grade tools.

About the Role:

As the Head of Growth, you will lead our growth strategy, focusing on driving customer acquisition, activation, retention, and monetization. You will also oversee the Data team, ensuring that data-driven insights fuel our growth initiatives. This role requires strong leadership in both full-funnel growth and data management, aligning these teams to drive performance across the business.

Typical responsibilities include:
  • Design and execute growth strategies for customer acquisition, retention, and monetization.
  • Lead A/B testing initiatives to optimize product-led growth (PLG) strategies.
  • Analyze performance metrics using tools like Optimizely and other analytics platforms to drive key decisions.
  • Develop and execute on strategies for improving activation and retention rates.
  • Own the experimentation process, developing hypotheses, testing them, and scaling successful growth initiatives.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with growth goals.
  • Lead the Data team, ensuring high-quality data collection, analysis, and reporting to drive business decisions.
  • Work closely with the Data team to ensure data integrity and to develop insights that support growth initiatives.
  • Develop data strategies that support long-term business objectives and immediate growth needs.
  • Mentor and manage team members across both the Growth and Data teams, fostering a collaborative, high-performance environment.
  • Operate autonomously and thrive in a remote-first, fast-moving environment.
We’re looking for someone with the following skills and qualifications:
  • Minimum 5 years of experience working in a SaaS environment, preferably in both B2C and B2B context.
  • Experience with Product-Led Growth (PLG) strategies.
  • Expertise in A/B testing, data-driven decision-making, and experimentation.
  • Strong experience in driving activation, retention, and monetization strategies.
  • Highly proficient with analytics tools such as Optimizely.
  • Experience managing a Data team or working closely with data engineers, analysts, and data scientists.
  • Strong understanding of data infrastructure, data quality, and how to turn data insights into actionable strategies.
  • Curiosity-driven mindset with a passion for testing, optimization, and data exploration.
  • Demonstrated ability to work effectively in fast-paced, remote environments.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills; a true team player.
Nice to have:
  • Experience in managing teams in a remote setting.
  • Demonstrated success in scaling growth and data initiatives across multiple markets.
  • Expertise in advanced data analytics, automation, and data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Looker, SQL).
  • Familiarity with modern data stack infrastructure and tools.
  • Experience with platform products or multi-product businesses and/or horizontal use-cases.
Why Podcastle?
  • Stock options
  • Professional development
  • Flat company structure
  • Pioneering mindset of innovative people around
  • Immediate insight into the efficiency of your contributions
If this sounds like the next step you want to take on your career path, we are looking forward to seeing your CV at
jobs@podcastle.ai