Building a Growth Team at Jobber From Scratch with Connor Bradley – Growth Manager at Jobber (GMT083)

When I first caught wind of the trend of companies building “growth teams,” I probably had a similar reaction to a lot of people: “Wait a second, isn’t everyone on the sales and marketing teams at a company already part of the growth team?” Then, of course, the follow-up question: “How about product managers? Aren’t they thinking about how to grow adoption of their products too?” In this episode, Connor Bradley, Growth Manager at Jobber, shares exactly what the growth does to adding value to the product, demand gen, customer success, and marketing teams at Jobber.

In episode 83, you’ll learn:

  1. How do you integrate the growth process in the whole company
  2. How a small growth team can make a big impact in a company with more than 160 employees
  3. How does the growth team work with product, demand gen, customer success, and marketing teams
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My Takeaways from This Episode

  1. The goal of growth is learning as quickly as possible. As Connor puts it, growth is about learning about your users at a very high rate. The way you do that is by stating your assumptions and designing a test. For example, if you give your users something to do, will they do it or will they ignore you? That’s learning right there.
  2. One of the goals of the growth team is to get your company into a growth mindset and have people thinking about growth. You can only come up with so many ideas with a few people. Connor says that his team of four need help from other people.
  3. Don’t just focus on having an MQL. Think about that journey when that person becomes a customer. How do they adopt your product? how do they get retained? Take it a step further.
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About Connor Bradley

Connor Bradley the Growth Manager at Jobber. Through Connor’s extensive experience in SaaS, he’s been given insight into how to drive top-of-funnel leads and move opportunities through to ACV revenue. Once acquired, Connor focuses on activating and retaining customers to combat churn and grow an active user base that consistently connects to the value of our software.

Key Discussion Points
  • 9:36 – Connor’s journey to becoming the Growth Manager at Jobber
  • 14:26 – How growth experimentation looks like at Jobber
  • 19:47 – How the growth team at Jobber work with other teams
  • 34:58 – How other teams can build a growth team
  • 29:01 – How to get buy-in from other teams
  • 45:51 – Connor’s advice to marketers interested in growth
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