The company I'm working at has a growth team which basically means in our team of PM + engineers + designers we also have + Growth Manager who's job is basically to design and run a load of experiments to increase some metrics about the product.
But (obviously?) when I say "run experiments" what I mean is "get the engineering team to implement loads of stuff and then track it over the week". This is fine, because usually its pretty simple stuff, but her tickets never seem to get prioritised and so she ends up only running like one experiment a week and I think she's pretty demoralised about the whole thing.
I know companies like Amazon AB test everything, so there must be good best practices here? Does anyone know any strategies or products that would help either: - Her do it herself? (seems unlikely she could get everything done without engineering support, but maybe she could do some simple stuff) - Us to work more effectively as a team and actually get more experiments shipped.
Thanks!
I would propose a growth bounty – if teams can show growth _on metrics that are preapproved by the growth team_ they get a bonus linked to the growth in user count / revenue / etc. If this is done right then the growth team just have to make sure people don't game the system.
If leadership aren't willing to put their money where their mouth is, this means they're probably paying lip service to growth and engineers are correctly identifying that these tickets aren't what management really care about – in which case your colleague either needs to convince management to reprioritise, or find another role.