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How to hire a
growth marketer.
Salary bands, time-to-fill, what good actually looks like, and the assessment we put every candidate through. Built on nine years of validated psychometric data from Neuroworx.
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£104,000
Median salary · United Kingdom
£86-£122k senior range
42d
Typical time-to-fill
down to 3.5d with Picked
248
Applicants per role
Series A · public posting
9 / 248
Make it to interview
industry · pre-AI screening
Salary bands
What it costs to hire one.
2026 H1 · base + variable
LevelUSUKEURemote
IC1 / Junior growth$72-$99k£45-£62k€48-€66k$59-$82k
IC2 / Growth marketer$99-$141k£62-£88k€66-€94k$82-$116k
IC3 / Senior growth$138-$195k£86-£122k€92-€131k$114-$161k
IC4 / Lead growth$189-$259k£118-£162k€126-€173k$156-$214k
IC5 / Head of growth$248-$344k£155-£215k€166-€230k$205-$284k
Source · 2,847 anonymised offers placed via Picked Q4 2025 to Q1 2026. Updated monthly.
What good looks like
Past credentials. Present signals.
01
Funnel instinct
Diagnoses the funnel before they touch the lever. Has named the step where the cohort actually drops.
02
Experiment design
Picks one variable. Runs the test long enough. Knows when not to run a test at all.
03
Cross-functional comms
Co-writes the spec with engineering. Sits in the design review. Picks the one chart that closes the meeting.
04
Engineering literacy
Can read the event spec. Can write the SQL. Will not ship a growth loop they cannot instrument.
05
Honesty about lift
Reads the holdout, not the headline number. Has killed an experiment that beat the control on the wrong metric.
Nine years of Neuroworx outcome data on 14,000 growth marketer hires says: the candidates rated high on funnel instinct + cross-functional comms outperform high-prestige-CV candidates by a wide margin in the first twelve months.
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What Picked puts every candidate through
Four stages. Each one written down.
From the Neuroworx item bank · 1,247 items live
01
Triage
CV + cover screened against must-haves. Title, level, language, region, three skills you set. Hard filters first. The model spends no time on people you would not even read.
~12 seconds · $0.12
02
Conversational screen
A 12-minute voice or chat conversation against six structured probes: motivation, scope of last role, the thing they are proudest of, biggest production mistake, what they would build with a free month, why this role.
~12 min · $0.31
03
Role-fit assessment
A scoped task drawn from the bank. Submit a short writeup. Scored against a published rubric on judgement, craft, and pragmatism.
30-60 min · $0.28
04
AI first-round interview
A 20-minute voice interview against six items drawn from the IC3 item bank. Includes behavioural ("tell me about a time"), technical or scenario ("walk me through how you would approach"), and an ownership probe.
~20 min · $0.24
The 1,247 items for growth marketer are split across 42 sub-rubrics. Every item has been calibrated against twelve-month performance outcomes from 14,083 prior hires.
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Sample interview questions
A few from the item bank.
01
Walk me through the last growth experiment you ran end-to-end.
Listen for: A specific hypothesis, a specific test design, the read. What they did with the loser.
02
Tell me about a funnel diagnosis you did that surprised you.
Listen for: A specific step. The cohort cut that revealed it. What they did next.
03
Describe a referral or growth loop you killed.
Listen for: A specific loop. The retention or unit-economic reason. The conversation with the lead.
04
When did you last co-write a spec with engineering?
Listen for: A specific feature. The shape of the back-and-forth. The thing they conceded.
05
Tell me about an experiment you designed not to run.
Listen for: A specific idea. The reason the test would not have read. What they did instead.
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Job description template
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growth-marketer.md
243 words · 3 min read
# [Senior/Mid/Junior] growth marketer · [city] or remote

We are hiring our [Nth] growth marketer. You will own the funnel from [start] to [end]. You will co-write specs with [N] engineers and [N] PMs. The first projects are [the onboarding rework, the referral loop, the activation surface]. We measure on [holdout, cohort retention].

## You will be good here if

- You can read the event spec, write the SQL, and brief the design.
- You have killed a growth loop that hit headline numbers but did not move retention.
- [The third trait you actually care about].

## What you will not get

A hack-of-the-week role. Loops live or die on retention, not on launch posts. We will ask you to delete a winner if the cohort behind it does not stick.

## Compensation

[Currency][low] to [high] base. [low] to [high] percent equity. We post the band because we mean it.

## How we hire

30-second post, screen + assessment via Picked, 20-min interview via Picked, one on-site half-day with the head of marketing and the CEO plus a live funnel-diagnosis discussion. We aim to give a yes or no in 7 days.

## What is the rubric

Funnel instinct, experiment design, cross-functional comms, engineering literacy, honesty about lift. Not the launch count on your last CV.

That is the JD. Apply via [link] or just send a paragraph about the last growth loop you killed and why.

[Your name], [your title]
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