Hire a Growth Lead
Pre-screened Growth Leads matched to your funnel and growth stage in as little as 3 days. No recruiter fees, no full-time overhead.
When to hire a Fractional Growth Lead
A fractional Growth Lead is the right call when your pipeline is stalling, your team lacks senior growth ownership, or you need to move fast without committing to a full-time hire.
Your growth has plateaued
You've exhausted your early acquisition channels and need a senior operator to identify new levers, run structured experiments, and break through the ceiling.
You're launching a new product or market
A new launch demands a focused growth strategy from day one. A fractional Growth Lead can own the go-to-market motion without the lag of a full-time search.
Your CAC is climbing and you don't know why
Rising customer acquisition costs with no clear diagnosis signal a need for senior growth expertise to audit your funnel, attribution, and channel mix.
The benefits of hiring a Fractional Growth Lead
Access senior growth operators who have driven acquisition, retention, and revenue at scale, without the cost and lag of a traditional full-time search.
Cost Efficiency
Get executive-level growth leadership on a flexible retainer. No full-time salary, equity, or benefits package required.
Speed to Hire
Pre-screened Growth Leads are ready to match in as little as 3 days, not the 3-6 months a traditional search takes.
Pre-Screened Expertise
Every operator is pre-screened by veteran executive recruiters on track record, references, and hands-on growth leadership across channels and growth stages.
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.
Discovery Call
Book a free 20-minute discovery call with one of our executive recruiters to review your goals, needs, and team dynamics.
Meet Experts
Within days, we'll introduce you to a short-list of pre-screened Fractional Growth Lead candidates to interview, each pre-screened by veteran executive recruiters before you meet them. Our match success rate is 98%.
Start Work
Finalize contract details with Go Fractional and get working within less than a week of your discovery call.
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.
Fractional vs full-time vs agency
Three ways to get Growth Lead leadership, and where each one wins.
| Factor | Fractional Growth Lead | Full-Time Growth Lead | Agency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to hire | ~3 days | 3-6 months | 1-4 weeks |
| Cost structure | Monthly retainer | Salary + equity + benefits | Project or retainer markup |
| Commitment | Flexible, part-time or full-time | Long-term, full-time | Project or campaign scope |
| Accountability | Embedded operator, owns outcomes | Embedded operator, owns outcomes |
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.”
Frequently asked questions
Here are a few questions that folks just like you have had during their search.
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