Head of Growth Venture-Backed Consumer Tech Start-Up

Head of Growth Venture-Backed Consumer Tech Start-Up London

Harmonic are delighted to be partnering exclusively with an exciting, fast-scaling technology start-up to recruit a Founding Growth Lead.

Our client is a venture-backed consumer technology business operating at the intersection of entertainment and AI. They have built a compelling product with early traction and are now focused on accelerating growth in a meaningful way. The team combines deep product thinking with genuine passion for the space they operate in, and they are investing in the right people to help them scale rapidly.

This is a rare and exciting opportunity to join a business at a genuinely formative moment. The company is entering its next phase of growth, and this hire will be foundational to shaping how they reach, convert, and retain users at scale.

You will be stepping into a senior, highly visible role working directly alongside the CEO, with broad remit and genuine ownership over one of the most strategically critical functions in the business.

The Role

As Founding Growth Lead, you will take full ownership of growth across the business. You will build and lead the systems, channels, and loops that drive user acquisition, activation, and retention - combining performance marketing, organic distribution, and in-product growth thinking into a cohesive, compounding engine.

You will lead a small, focused growth team and work in close collaboration with product and engineering to ensure that growth is embedded into the product experience itself, not bolted on. This is a high-agency, high-velocity role with a direct line to the CEO and a seat at the table as the company defines its trajectory.

Responsibilities

• Take full ownership of growth across web and mobile, defining strategy and driving execution end-to-end
• Build a creative and content distribution system that generates high-velocity user-generated content and systematically identifies and scales winning formats
• Run and manage paid performance marketing across relevant channels, with a rigorous approach to testing, measurement, and disciplined scaling of proven creative
• Work closely with product and engineering to design and ship in-product growth loops that compound over time
• Own and continuously improve the end-to-end user journey from first touch through to activation and first meaningful value
• Define target user segments, channel strategy, and messaging to attract and convert high-intent users
• Lead and develop a small growth team, setting direction and raising collective output
• Build and manage relationships with creators, identifying partners who can authentically drive awareness and acquisition
• Work closely with the founding team, contributing to broader business strategy beyond growth
• Bring a product growth mindset, thinking about how the product itself can drive distribution, virality, and retention
• Act as a genuine business partner to the CEO, contributing to positioning, narrative, and commercial direction
• Identify and develop creator partnerships that align with the brand and accelerate reach within the music and creator community
• Report directly to the CEO, providing clear insight into performance, learnings, and strategic direction
• Ad hoc tasks to support the CEO and Founders

What We Need to See (Essential)

• Entrepreneurial mindset with a track record of taking ownership and getting things done
• Solid understanding of performance marketing, ideally within a consumer business
• Genuine passion for music and the creative industries
• Data-led and first-principles thinker who makes decisions quickly and iterates
• Strong problem solver who can build and figure things out without a blueprint

Package:

Salary: £60,000-£80,000 + equity and competitive benefitsWorking Pattern: In-Office (Central London)

If this is of interest, please get in touch with your CV at or call

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, if you have not heard back from us, please assume your application has unfortunately been unsuccessful on this occasion.

At Harmonic, we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace. We actively welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and assure you that every candidate will be thoughtfully considered for the roles we represent, without regard to race, religion, gender expression, disability, or sexual orientation.

At Harmonic, we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace. We actively welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and assure you that every candidate will be thoughtfully considered for the roles we represent, without regard to race, religion, gender expression, disability, or sexual orientation.