Head of Growth
Cycle is looking for a Head of Growth to help build and scale our pipeline. You'll be heavily focused on the first two steps of the user journey: getting Cycle in front of the right developers, and making sure they actually adopt the platform once they find us. If you know how to build a reliable growth engine for a technical product, this is your sandbox.
About Cycle
Cycle is the leading Kubernetes alternative for teams who want to build, deploy, and manage distributed applications on their own infrastructure, but don't want the operational overhead.
Who We Are
Builders: At Cycle, everyone (customers and team) is a builder. Whether it's code, a website, or a sales deck, we're constantly building and leaving things better than they were the day before.
Founders at heart: We hire builders who act like owners. If something is blocked, you unblock it. If something is broken, you fix it. We don't do "not my problem".
Long-term thinkers: We're playing the long game but we still put points on the board every day. We don't chase vanity metrics. We chase progress that compounds.
Aggressive and calculated: We move fast. We ship. But we don't gamble with trust.
Emphasize default-alive: Most startups raise a bunch of money then fail before they can meaningfully show results. We believe that time in the market, constantly optimizing, significantly improves our likelihood of large, long-term success. We'd rather grow a little slower at first, to ensure we have a chance to grow faster later.
Build the awareness engine: Find out where engineering leads and developers spend their time, and figure out how to get Cycle in front of them. You’ll test different channels, campaigns, and messaging to find the most reliable ways to drive the right kind of traffic to our front door.
Turn interest into adoption: Getting people to the website isn’t enough; we need them deploying on Cycle. You’ll map out the early user journey, figure out exactly where new signups are getting stuck, and work to make their first successful deployment happen as fast as possible.
Connect data to decisions: Growth isn't about guessing. You’ll set up the tracking we need to actually understand what users are doing, run experiments to see what works, and share those insights with our product and sales teams to improve the whole experience.
Partner with the team: You won't be working in a silo. Just like the rest of our team, you'll need to be in the loop with what our clients are actually asking for. You'll use real feedback from sales calls and community interactions to refine how we market the platform.
You have real-world experience with:
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Growing technical B2B SaaS or developer-focused products
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Running product-led growth (PLG) initiatives focused on user activation
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Setting up and managing tracking, analytics, and marketing tools
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Understanding how engineering teams evaluate, test, and adopt new software
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Building campaigns that target technical decision-makers (CTOs, VP of Eng, DevOps leads)
You know how to market to a technical audience:
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You understand that developers hate traditional marketing fluff and buzzwords
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You can translate complex platform features into clear, practical value
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You focus on education, removing friction, and getting users to a "wow" moment quickly
You can build and manage a reliable growth engine:
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Designing and running experiments to test new awareness channels
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Mapping out the user journey to spot exactly where users drop off before their first deployment
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Making decisions based on actual data and funnel metrics, not just gut feelings
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Building scalable systems that run consistently, rather than relying on one-off marketing stunts
You’re comfortable getting into the weeds with the team:
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You aren't afraid to jump on sales calls or read community feedback to understand the user
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You can translate raw data and user behavior into actionable insights for the product team
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You understand that marketing, platform activation, and sales are all part of the exact same loop
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