Hire a Growth Lead
Pre-screened Growth Leads who have owned paid acquisition, lifecycle, and conversion testing at your stage, matched to your funnel in about 3 days with a recruiter running the search alongside you.
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When to hire a Fractional Growth Lead
Bring in a Growth Lead when your acquisition numbers are moving the wrong way and nobody on the team owns the full funnel.
CAC keeps climbing
Paid channels that worked last year now cost more per signup, and your team keeps raising budgets instead of finding new levers.
No experiment cadence
Tests on landing pages, pricing, or onboarding happen sporadically, with no backlog, no hypothesis log, and no clear read on what won.
Signups that never activate
Top-of-funnel volume looks healthy, but trial-to-paid or activation rates are flat and nobody owns fixing them.
Attribution you can't trust
GA4, your ad platforms, and your CRM each report different numbers, so budget decisions come down to opinion.
Marketers without a leader
You have channel specialists or freelancers executing, but no senior person setting priorities, targets, and a quarterly growth plan.
The benefits of hiring a Fractional Growth Lead
A fractional Growth Lead gives you a senior owner for acquisition, activation, and retention metrics, starting in days and scoped to the channels that matter to your business.
Put a senior operator on your funnel metrics
Get someone who owns CAC, payback, and conversion rate targets without adding a full-time executive salary, bonus, and equity to your burn.
Start testing channels before next quarter
Meet pre-screened Growth Leads in about 3 days, so experiments on Google Ads, Meta, SEO, or onboarding flows start this month instead of after a 3 to 6 month search.
Hire someone who has scaled your channel before
We match you with operators who have already grown a product like yours, whether that is PLG self-serve signups, B2B demand gen, or DTC paid social, and fluent in tools like GA4, Amplitude, HubSpot, and Optimizely.
How to hire a Fractional Growth Lead
No more juggling job boards and sorting through pools of unqualified applicants. Hiring a Fractional Growth Lead is easy with Go Fractional.
Intro Call
Answer a few quick questions, then book a free 30-minute intro call with our team to review your goals, needs, and team dynamics.
Meet Experts
Our AI finds Fractional Growth Lead candidates whose past clients and projects match your brief, which you won’t find on LinkedIn. A dedicated executive recruiter verifies each one’s experience, fit, and genuine interest, and you meet the ones who fit in about 3 days.
Start Work
Book time with candidates right from your shortlist, choose your operator, and sign a simple month-to-month agreement. We move as fast as you do.
Engagements that fit how you work
Every Go Fractional engagement is structured for senior leadership without full-time overhead. Start fractional, scale up, or convert to full-time when you’re ready.
Fractional Growth Lead
- Senior leadership on a part-time schedule
- Monthly retainer, no recruiting fees
- Scale hours up or down as needs change
Contract-to-Hire
Trial a Fractional Growth Lead on a fractional engagement before converting them to a full-time hire.
- Keep the expert's learnings or convert to full-time
- Try the fit before you commit, no hiring risk
- Faster speed to market, conserving time and resources
Interim Growth Lead
Full-time coverage for a defined stretch: a leadership gap, a transition, or a critical project.
Fractional Growth Lead rates average $173/hr across our live benchmarks. Pricing scales with hours and scope.
Growth Lead Hourly RatesFractional vs full-time vs agency
Three ways to get Growth Lead leadership, and where each one wins.
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| Factor | Fractional Growth Lead | Full-time Growth Lead | Growth agency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to hire | ~3 days to match | 3-6 months | 2-4 weeks to onboard |
| Engagement | Monthly retainer, scoped SOW | Salary + bonus + equity | Retainer plus % of ad spend |
| Owns growth targets | Yes, accountable for CAC, activation, retention | Yes, long-term owner | Usually reports on channel metrics only |
| Experiment scope | Full funnel: acquisition through retention | Full funnel | Mostly paid media or SEO execution |
| Data and tooling | Works inside your analytics, CRM, and product data | Builds in-house stack over time | Often runs in agency-owned accounts and dashboards |
| Best for | Senior growth strategy and team direction, flexible scope | Mature growth org with stable budget | Extra execution capacity on one channel |
We’ve helped hundreds of organizations Go Fractional
Twelve years: the average experience across a network of handpicked executives ready to make an impact on day one.
“In just 5 months, working only 1 to 2 days a week, our fractional CMO made a significant impact at the Uniswap Foundation. They led customer research and crafted the foundation’s first-ever brand and marketing strategy. They designed the initial 2024 marketing budget, and conducted a successful Marketing Director hiring search sourced from their network. Our fractional CMO also launched an email marketing campaign strategy that achieved outstanding results, producing open and click rates +15% over the standard in our industry.”
“It was literally three days after he started with us fractionally, our CEO was calling me and asking if we could get a full-time offer out.”
“It's a can't-lose scenario. You either get the learnings from the subject matter expert, or you get the full-time capability. It provided a ton of flexibility, much faster speed to market, and conservation of time and resources.”
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