Once your startup has product-market fit, steady revenue, and a growing customer base, it’s time to think beyond just building product — it’s time to build systems that drive scale.
In this fireside chat, we’ll dive into the world of growth engineering: a discipline that blends software engineering, data, product, and marketing to systematically improve key business metrics. You’ll hear from an experienced growth engineer about how to build this function, what kinds of wins it can unlock, and how it differs from traditional engineering roles.
We’ll cover:
What a growth engineer actually does — and what makes the role unique.
When to hire your first growth engineer and how to set them up for success.
The marketing, product, and data skills that set great growth engineers apart.
Tools and platforms that help growth teams move fast and experiment effectively. How engineering culture shifts when the goal becomes learning over launching.
Whether you’re scaling a B2C product or SaaS platform, this session will help you think strategically about when and how to build a growth engineering team that moves the needle.
This session is part of Startup Boston Week 2025 and is perfect for founders of post-Series B startups, technical leaders building for scale, HR and talent pros sourcing specialized roles, and software engineers curious about business-facing paths in tech.
