Role

Hire your AI Head of Growth

Experiments, funnels, and retention loops — run by a growth lead that never skips a week.

Your AI Head of Growth owns the conversion and activation side of marketing: landing pages, signup funnels, onboarding, retention loops, and paid channels. It runs experiments weekly, measures with statistical rigor, and kills losers fast. It reports to the CMO on strategy and works with the CTO on implementation.

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What your AI Head of Growth does

01Maintain and run the experiment backlog — prioritized by estimated impact vs effort
02Own signup conversion from first visit to activated user, with weekly funnel reviews
03Run paid acquisition across channels: Google, Meta, LinkedIn, Reddit, newsletter sponsorships
04Design and measure retention loops — email, in-product, referral, lifecycle
05Instrument the product with PostHog or Mixpanel so every experiment is measurable
06Coordinate with the CTO on technical implementation of tests (feature flags, variants, cohort tracking)
07Write experiment specs with hypothesis, metric, minimum detectable effect, and decision criteria
08Kill experiments that flatten early — no sunk-cost continuation

Workflows on autopilot

Weekly experiment review
Every Thursday: reads the prior week's results, calls wins/losses with confidence levels, and ships the next 2-3 experiments.
Funnel health audit
Monthly: walks the full signup → activation → retention funnel, identifies the single biggest leak, writes a fix plan.
Paid channel rebalancing
Bi-weekly: reviews CAC per channel against blended LTV, cuts the bottom 30%, redeploys budget toward the top.
Retention loop design
Quarterly: designs a new lifecycle touchpoint (email, in-product, referral) tied to a specific retention metric. Measures over 60 days.
Activation moment research
Reads new-user session replays and cohort data to find the moment users convert or drop. Rewrites onboarding around that moment.
Growth accounting
Weekly: produces a Brian Balfour-style growth accounting breakdown — new, resurrected, churned — so the growth picture is never a single vanity number.

Without vs With a AI Head of Growth

Without
  • —You run one experiment a month and aren't sure what it proved
  • —Paid ads run on autopilot burning budget on dead keywords
  • —New users churn in week 1 and nobody knows why
  • —Signup funnel has been the same for 14 months
  • —A $180K/year head of growth hire you can't afford yet
With Tycoon
  • ✓The growth lead ships 2-3 experiments/week, each with a pre-registered hypothesis
  • ✓Bi-weekly rebalancing cuts CAC 20-40% without reducing volume
  • ✓The growth lead watches session replays and rewrites onboarding around the drop-off moment
  • ✓The growth lead ships a variant every 10 days and keeps what wins
  • ✓An AI growth lead for under $200/month that starts shipping in hour one

A day in the life of your AI Head of Growth

07:30
Pulls PostHog overnight numbers. Signup rate dipped 1.4 points on mobile — opens a ticket with the CTO to investigate.
09:00
Reviews last night's A/B test. New pricing page variant wins at 94% confidence. Promotes to 100% and writes the learning.
11:00
Writes the spec for next experiment: onboarding video vs interactive tour. Hypothesis, metric, MDE, and decision rule.
13:30
Runs bi-weekly paid review. Cuts LinkedIn spend 60%; redeploys to Reddit newsletter sponsorship pilot.
15:00
Watches 8 new-user session replays. Finds a confusing copy moment at step 3. Queues a micro-test.
17:00
Publishes the weekly growth accounting summary to the CEO: net MRR gained, retention rate, top 3 moves.
21:00
Heartbeat: confirms all running experiments healthy, no broken funnels, overnight traffic looks normal.

Tools your AI Head of Growth uses

PostHog, Mixpanel, or Amplitude for analytics and feature flagsGoogle Ads, Meta Ads Manager, LinkedIn Campaign Manager for paidCustomer.io, Loops, or Resend for lifecycle emailHotjar or Microsoft Clarity for session replaySegment for event pipeline standardizationOptimizely, VWO, or native split testsStripe for revenue-weighted experiment evaluationTycoon skill marketplace for CRO, retention, and paid-channel skills
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Clear answers about wallet credit, usage, subscriptions, and how Tycoon charges for work.

What's the difference between an AI Head of Growth and an AI CMO?

The CMO owns strategy, brand, and the full marketing org; the Head of Growth owns the measurable conversion, retention, and paid side. On a small team, the CMO can cover both — but the moment you have meaningful traffic, meaningful spend, or a signup funnel that matters, splitting them lets the CMO stay strategic while Growth owns the daily experiment loop. Think of it the way Brian Balfour ran HubSpot or how Reforge teams are structured: CMO for positioning and brand; VP Growth for numbers and funnels. Tycoon ships both as AI roles so you don't have to choose based on which human you can afford.

Can an AI really run paid ads responsibly?

Yes, within bounded autonomy. The growth lead runs paid within budget caps set by the CFO, follows channel-specific creative guidelines maintained by the CMO, and escalates any major creative direction or campaign over a threshold to the CEO. Actual ad operations (keyword bid adjustments, creative rotation, audience refinement) happen daily at machine speed. Most solo founders see meaningful ad spend savings in the first 60 days simply because the growth lead never forgets to pause underperformers — the single most common human failure mode in paid. See Pieter Levels' writing on 'solo ads'; the same principles apply, with more rigor and less exhaustion.

How does the AI Head of Growth coordinate with the rest of the team?

Reports to the CMO on strategy and budget. Works with the CTO on technical implementation (feature flags, event tracking, variant deployment). Shares a funnel with the AI Sales Rep (for B2B) or the AI Customer Support (for self-serve). Flags anything to the CFO that affects LTV, CAC, or payback math. The coordination happens in your team chat — the CEO keeps the strategic picture. You don't have to orchestrate it. This is the main reason Tycoon ships as a team, not a single agent: growth alone in isolation drifts; growth embedded in a team compounds.

How is this different from a tool like Lindy or Paperclip?

Lindy and Paperclip give you workflow primitives — you assemble the growth function from triggers, agents, and tools. Tycoon ships a pre-hired growth lead with an experiment backlog, a weekly cadence, and coordination with the rest of your AI team. For founders who want to build their own growth infrastructure and have the time, Lindy/Paperclip are legitimate options. For founders who want to direct growth by chat and see experiments shipped by Friday, Tycoon's shorter time-to-first-value wins. See vs/lindy and vs/paperclip for the full breakdown.

What if I don't have enough traffic for experiments yet?

Then the Head of Growth starts earlier in the funnel — landing page CRO, organic acquisition work with the CMO, signup friction audit, and setting up measurement so when traffic does come, every pixel is tracked. Pre-traffic, the highest-leverage work is instrumentation and conversion foundation, not A/B testing. The growth lead knows this; it doesn't force experiments before the sample size supports them. Most Tycoon founders see meaningful experimental output by month 2-3, once traffic and signups are above the minimum sample threshold. Before that, you're compounding foundation, not running noisy tests.

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