The 10 Most Influential CMO's Leading the Way of Success, 2024 (Final file) (...
Growth in unexpected places
1. Growth in Unexpected Places
“How to Recruit and Launch a Growth Team at an
Enterprise Business”
Thibault Imbert,
Head of Growth, Adobe Spark
@thibault_imbert
2. Who is this guy?
Started as a web designer
Developer
Technical sales
Product Manager
Growth
13. We all care about
Growth!
Release/Launch
What we saw
14. We all care about
Growth!
Release/Launch
Dammit, let’s
ship this!
What we saw
15. We all care about
Growth!
Release/Launch
Dammit, let’s
ship this!
Revenue
Activation
Retention
Acquisition
What we saw
16. We all care about
Growth!
Release/Launch
Dammit, let’s
ship this!
We all care about
Growth again!
Revenue
Activation
Retention
Acquisition
What we saw
17. 1.0 attempt
Any ETA on the new
instrumentation?
PM/PMM
We have these
features for the June
release first
This will have to go on
the backlog
PM
EM
Product
34. Growth Product
2.0 attempt
We have code ready
we need to checkin
We have this
experiment we would like
to run!
PM
Engineer
Who are you? Let me
see your code
Great! Do you
have resources to make it
happen?
PM
Engineer
35. Challenges with a separate team
Why are you in my code base?
Why do you get to take short cuts?
We are already planning on doing this!
That’s not how we work!
47. Process
Ship
(soft launched)
Ship Meeting
(stakeholders signoff)
Experiment Plan
(control vs variant, baseline,
metric)
Experiment Pipeline
(lever, hypothesis, ICE
prioritization)
Backlog
(sprint planning, link to
experiment)
48. Process
Experiment
Results Review
(what did we learn)
Ship
(soft launched)
Ship Meeting
(stakeholders signoff)
Experiment Plan
(control vs variant, baseline,
metric)
Experiment Pipeline
(lever, hypothesis, ICE
prioritization)
Backlog
(sprint planning, link to
experiment)
62. Summary
It starts with organic retention
Start small, show some early wins
Focus on numbers, not tech
Build a squad, not a team
Mindset > Skills
Ideate, prioritize and move the numbers!
Spread the culture