Growth Lead

Awarded Software

$110K — $130K *
Education, Government & Non-Profit
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3-7 years in high-performance environments such as early-stage B2B SaaS, management consulting, or banking/PE.
  • Experience carrying or supporting a sales motion, preferably in roles like AE, SDR, or operations closely tied to sales teams.
  • Proven people or vendor management skills, understanding when to delegate and when to take ownership.
  • Systems fluent, preferably with HubSpot or similar CRM, capable of quickly mastering new technologies.
  • Ability to automate workflows using AI and turn manual processes into efficient systems.
  • Tolerance for routine tasks focusing on outcomes rather than appearances.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, able to meet output expectations.

Responsibilities

  • Manage the comprehensive outbound program, from strategy to execution.
  • Oversee list strategy, messaging, and the quality of meetings beyond sheer volume.
  • Conduct day-to-day management of the sales team, including pipeline reviews and coaching.
  • Collaborate with the CEO on strategic deals while driving mid-market opportunities independently.
  • Create and manage proposals and RFP responses, including a supporting content library.
  • Coordinate contract drafting, invoice processes, and manage security compliance questionnaires.
  • Administer the CRM and tech stack, ensuring data quality and vendor management while automating repetitive tasks.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary plus performance bonus.
  • Meaningful equity stake in the company.
  • Role scope will expand alongside company growth and development.
  • Direct partnership with the CEO, influencing company strategy.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Cohesive team culture that prioritizes efficiency and effectiveness over performative activities.
Full Job Description
Growth Lead

This is a high-ownership role for an operator who wants to run the commercial engine of an early-stage company end to end. You'll take over the systems, vendors, processes, and day-to-day GTM execution currently handled by the CEO.

You'll see every part of how a SaaS company acquires, closes, and retains revenue - and work directly with the CEO daily. If you want to eventually start or run something yourself, there are few faster educations.

You are not a strategist who needs a team to execute, and you're not a systems admin who stays behind the dashboard. You're the person who builds the machine and runs it - and who measures success by how much faster and cleaner the whole commercial operation gets.

It's a hands-on lead position with real management responsibility and a direct line to the CEO, at a company where your work is visible in the numbers every week.

What You'll Own

Pipeline & Outbound
  • Manage our outbound program end to end
  • Own list strategy, messaging iteration, and meeting quality - not just volume

Sales Team Operations
  • Day-to-day management of our account executive function: pipeline reviews, deal support, coaching cadence
  • Partner with the CEO on strategic and enterprise deals while independently driving mid-market opportunities forward

Deals & Commercial Execution
  • Own proposals, RFP/RFQ responses, and the supporting content library
  • Coordinate contracts and invoicing from draft through signature to billing
  • Manage security/procurement questionnaire responses in partnership with our compliance resources

Systems & Data
  • Own our CRM and GTM tech stack: administration, data quality, enrichment, and vendor relationships
  • Evaluate, negotiate, and manage GTM vendors and tools
  • Build the reporting layer: funnel metrics, conversion rates, pipeline coverage, forecast accuracy
  • Identify repetitive commercial workflows and automate them out of existence

Who You Are
  • 3-7 years in high-performance environments: early-stage B2B SaaS, management consulting, banking/PE, or a GTM/BizOps generalist role. If you're coming from consulting or finance, you should be hungry to trade analysis for ownership.
  • You've carried or closely supported a sales motion perhaps as a former AE/SDR, an SDR manager, a deal desk owner, or an ops person embedded with a sales team or you've spent years driving complex commercial workstreams (proposals, RFPs, client deliverables) at an elite standard and want to own the outcome, not just the workproduct
  • You've managed people or vendors and know the difference between delegating and abdicating
  • You're systems-fluent (HubSpot or equivalent CRM, sales engagement tools, data enrichment) - or you're the kind of person who becomes systems-fluent in a month - but you never confuse buying a tool with solving a problem
  • You build with AI, not just use it. E.g., you've turned real workflows into automations, prompts, or agents that run without you, and when you see a manual process your first instinct is "why is a person still doing this?"
  • You're unbothered by unglamorous work (chasing an invoice, fixing CRM data, rewriting a cold email for the fourth time) because you care about the outcome, not the optics
  • You write clearly, move fast, communicate directly, and are comfortable being measured on output
  • You want ownership over a whole surface area, not a narrow lane at a bigger company

Nice to have, not required: experience selling to universities, government, or other procurement-heavy buyers; exposure to RFP-driven sales cycles; experience working with offshore or agency GTM teams.

What We Offer
  • Competitive salary plus performance bonus
  • Meaningful equity
  • A role that expands as the company does (the scope you own in year two won't look like year one)
  • Direct partnership with the CEO and real influence over company trajectory
  • Full medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • A team that ships fast, communicates directly, and doesn't do performative work

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