Fractional chief growth officer · What a CGO does · CGO vs CMO vs head of growth
Fractional chief growth officer jobs · hire a fractional chief growth officer, or hire a CGO for good
A fractional chief growth officer is a C-suite executive who owns the company’s growth number for part of the week: how customers are found, converted, kept and expanded, across marketing, sales, product and customer success.
To hire a fractional chief growth officer, first decide whether one person should own all of that, then how many days it needs.
We recruit fractional, interim, part-time, temporary and permanent growth leaders, and non-executive directors.
On every brief we send a shortlist of 3–5, each with pay or day rate, availability and IR35 position set out, after five-stage vetting.
Looking for work?
Growth, marketing and revenue leadership roles are on the board below.
How a brief runswhat we undertake
- 01Brief30-MINUTE SCOPING CALLDay 0
- 02Shortlist of 3–5VETTED · RATE BENCHMARK · IR35After the brief
- 03InterviewsYOU MEET THE SHORTLISTYour diary
- 04Scoped startFIRST-MONTH OUTCOMES AGREEDYou set the date
- 05Fractional, interim and permanentIR35 POSITION SET OUTOn every brief
Shortlist3–5
In the press
Fast Company 16 leaders on when fractional C-suite hires make sense · 24 Jun 2026
Leaders disagree on when a fractional C-suite hire makes sense and when a role needs full-time ownership. Growth is the seat where that question bites hardest, because it spans several teams.
Marketing Week Demand for fractional CMOs ‘driven by expertise over cost’ · 27 May 2026
UK research finding that companies bring in fractional marketing leaders for senior expertise at growth moments, more than to save money. The same logic sits behind a part-week chief growth officer.
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Book 15 minutes to hire a fractional chief growth officer
Tell us the scope and the days a week. We come back with Chief Growth Officer candidates, their day rates and availability.
- 0115 minutes, video or phone
- 02We scope the role and the days a week
- 03A shortlist of 3–5 after the call
- 04Fractional, interim and permanent briefs
Pick a day that suits · live availability
On the board · last 3 months
Growth roles jobs on the board
Live growth and revenue leadership roles
Fractional recruiting starts with the brief, not the CV pile. Send a Chief Growth Officer brief and we come back with a shortlist of three to five candidates, each through five-stage vetting.
01/ the role
Fractional chief growth officer: one executive for the whole growth number
The chief growth officer title exists because growth rarely sits in one team.
Marketing owns demand, sales owns the pipeline, product owns activation, customer success owns retention, and each reports its own number.
A CGO is the executive who owns the combined result and has the authority to move work and budget between those teams to improve it.
Why fractional
Most companies that want a CGO want one for a stage, not for ever: after a round of funding, before a new market, or when growth has stalled and each team blames another.
A fractional chief growth officer brings C-suite judgement for one to three agreed days a week, sets the growth model and the targets, and builds the team that runs it between visits.
Where the CGO sits
The CGO reports to the CEO and sits on the executive team.
Below the seat, the functional leads keep their jobs: a head of growth running experiments, a marketing leader, a sales leader.
Beside it, many companies keep a CMO or a CRO instead; the table below sets out when each fits.
What the seat pays
For a permanent seat, Ultimate Asset’s 2026 survey of UK emerging-media businesses, a recruiter’s survey, puts the chief growth officer salary at £130,000 to £220,000, median £160,000.
No UK source publishes a chief growth officer day rate, so we quote none; each candidate on a shortlist states their own.
For the permanent salary spread across part-week days (our arithmetic, not a market rate), see fractional chief growth officer salary.
For comparison, Robert Half’s 2026 figures for a CMO run from £110,250 to £183,750, median £147,000.
A fractional cost is the day rate times the days worked.
02/ scope
How to hire a fractional chief growth officer
1. Decide whether you need one owner
A CGO makes sense when growth is stuck between teams: leads that sales rejects, trials that product cannot convert, customers that leave after year one.
If the problem sits inside one team, hire for that team instead: a marketing leader, a sales leader or a head of growth.
2. Give the seat its authority
Write down which teams, budgets and product surfaces the CGO can change, and who they report to.
A chief growth officer who can only advise the marketing, sales and product leads is a consultant with a larger title.
3. Name the number and the days
Pick the metric the business runs on (new revenue, net revenue retention, active customers) and what should be different at the first quarterly review.
Then set the days.
Two days a week buys direction and a cadence; the execution sits with the teams below.
4. Test range, not one discipline
Most candidates come up through marketing, sales or product.
Ask for evidence from all three: a channel they scaled, a sales process they changed, an onboarding step they fixed.
Membership of the Chartered Institute of Marketing or the Institute of Sales Professionals is one signal among several.
Take references from a CEO who worked beside them.
What we do on a growth brief
We send a shortlist of 3–5 candidates, each with pay or day rate, availability and IR35 position set out.
Every candidate goes through our five-stage vetting first.
If the brief reads as a head of growth or a CMO, we say so and shortlist for that seat.
03/ the week
How a week divides.
Part of a week is the point of the model: the days you buy are yours, the rest of the week goes to other clients. Move the days a week and the week redraws.
Illustration only: one way a fractional chief growth officer’s week can divide at 2 days a week for you. Each block is half a day.
04/ the board
What the board holds.
A read of the roles on the board on this page, counted as they stand: how each is engaged, whether the posting gives the days and the rate, and where the work happens.
On this board, last 90 days · 2 roles · Growth roles
Engagement
- Temporary1
- Advisory1
Seat
- CMO1
- CRO1
Days a week
- Stated in the posting1
- Not stated1
Day rate
- Verified rate0
- Estimated (est)0
- Rate not stated2
Work arrangement (as the job feed classifies it)
- Remote1
- Hybrid0
- On-site1
Newest posting on the board: 16 Oct 2026.
05/ the route
Fractional, interim or permanent?
Four taps. The answer names the route for the seat and the page that covers it.
The route · Fractional
A fractional chief growth officer.The work fills part of the week, so buy the days it needs.
A fractional chief growth officer holds the seat on agreed days for as long as the seat is needed, and works for other clients on the rest.
The route · Interim
An interim chief growth officer.The work fills the week, and it has an end: a programme, a cover, a transaction.
An interim chief growth officer takes the seat full time for that stretch and hands it over when it is done.
The route · Interim, then permanent
Interim now, a permanent chief growth officer after.The seat is full time and long term, and the need is now.
An interim chief growth officer holds it while the permanent search runs, so the seat is not left empty.
The route · Permanent
A permanent chief growth officer.A full-time seat that sits at the table for years is a permanent hire.
There is time to run a search, so run one.
06/ comparison
Chief growth officer vs CMO vs head of growth
Three growth seats that overlap. Choose by how much of the customer journey the person must own, and at what level.
07/ vetting
How we vet fractional chief growth officers
What we undertake on every brief, before a candidate reaches you.
- 01
Qualification screen
Verify Chief Growth Officer tenure, sector context and stage fit.
SOURCING - 02
Mandate fit
Match to your situation — stage, board dynamics, timing.
MATCHING - 03
Reference deep-dive
We take references ourselves, from recent past clients — real outcomes, not titles.
VERIFY - 04
Shortlist
Three to five candidates with day rate, availability and IR35 position set out.
SHORTLIST OF 3–5
08/ the role
What does a chief growth officer do? owns growth across the customer journey
A chief growth officer sets the company’s growth strategy and owns the result across the whole customer journey: acquisition, conversion, retention and expansion.
In practice that means choosing where the business grows (which customers, markets and channels), setting the targets each team works to, owning the data and reporting that show what is working, and moving budget and people to it.
The week of a fractional chief growth officer is mostly decisions and cadence: the weekly growth review with the functional leads, the experiment backlog and what it is expected to move, the pricing and packaging questions, the handoffs where customers drop out, and the board report.
The execution stays with the teams below.
Growth work carries rules.
Tracking for experiments and attribution needs consent for non-essential cookies, which must be actively and clearly given (ICO cookies guidance); marketing email and text need their own consent under PECR (ICO direct marketing guidance).
Since 6 April 2025 the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 bans fake and concealed incentivised reviews and drip pricing; the CMA sets out the rules in its unfair commercial practices guidance.
A CGO should own compliance with all three.
09/ cgo, cmo or head of growth
Chief growth officer vs CMO vs head of growth: which seat to brief
A CMO owns marketing.
A head of growth owns the funnel and the experiments.
A chief growth officer owns the combined number and sits above the teams that move it.
If marketing is the gap, brief a fractional CMO.
If the gap is a testing engine for a product with traction, hire a fractional head of growth.
If growth is stuck between teams, the CGO is the seat.
Revenue is the other neighbour.
A chief revenue officer owns sales, customer success and revenue operations, and answers for bookings and renewals; see chief revenue officer recruitment.
Some companies give the CGO title to a CRO with marketing added; others use CGO where product-led growth matters as much as sales.
Read the remit, not the title.
The titles also stack.
A common set-up is a CGO for two days a week, with a head of growth and a marketing lead running the work in between.
For the wider set of commercial seats, see fractional CCO.
10/ board and ir35
On the board or reporting to it, and IR35
Some companies appoint their chief growth officer as a statutory director.
That brings duties with it: GOV.UK notes that directors can hire others to manage things day to day but remain legally responsible for the company’s records, accounts and performance.
Agree in writing whether the fractional CGO joins the board or leads growth while reporting to it, and check the directors’ and officers’ insurance before any appointment.
Most fractional chief growth officers work through their own limited company, so the off-payroll working rules (IR35) may apply.
In most cases the client decides the status; for a small client outside the public sector, the CGO’s own company decides, and HMRC sets out the size tests in its guidance for clients.
Status turns on how the engagement runs in practice.
Our IR35 guide sets out the tests.
11/ questions
Fractional chief growth officer FAQ
The questions people ask before bringing in a fractional chief growth officer.
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