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A curated directory

The growth engineers worth following.

The a16z Growth Engineering Fellows — the operators building growth at the best AI companies. Follow them on LinkedIn, and dig into the workflows we've documented, with links to the posts that show the actual mechanics.

52 engineers

Diana Lim

Growth Engineer at Listen Labs

Listen Labs

Workflow

Built a Claude Code 'Research Agent' that ingests hundreds of AI-moderated interview transcripts and, in one session, finds patterns, tests significance, layers in competitor context, and auto-generates charts, slides, and reels for messaging strategy.

Claude Code

Drew Bredvick

Director of GTM Engineering at Vercel

Vercel

Workflow

Built Vercel's GTM 'Lead Agent': inbound forms get auto-enriched, deep-researched, and AI-qualified into buckets, then posted to Slack with reasoning and pre-drafted replies, moving inbound SDRs from research-and-write to review-and-send and cutting that headcount from roughly ten to one.

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Luke Harries

Head of Growth / Engineering at ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs

Workflow

Built ElevenLabs' AI marketing stack, including a Cursor-coded website-localization pipeline (GitHub Actions firing a custom LLM translation server with per-language brand prompts) that replaced a $40K/yr SaaS tool plus six figures of agency spend, a Granola-to-GPT case-study generator, and a WhatsApp-to-Claude MCP.

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Yash Tekriwal

First GTM Engineer & Head of Education at Clay

Clay

Workflow

Breaks down how Clay automates its own inbound: a form submission flows Typeform → Clay → HubSpot → Slack to enrich, score, qualify, personalize, and fire a first touch before a rep steps in.

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Ajay Prakash

Head of Growth at Superpower

Superpower

Workflow

Architected Superpower's waitlist engine: a tiered referral mechanic (one referral jumps you to the top 5,000, two to the top 500) plus shareable 'Bio Age' health cards and creative drops, driving 150K+ signups in six months.

Vaibhav Aggarwal

Growth Engineering at OpenAI (prev. Head of Growth Engineering, Coinbase)

OpenAI

Workflow

Built Coinbase's Incentives Engine and the growth loops, referrals, and onboarding primitives around it; now does growth engineering at OpenAI and teaches a course on engineering and shipping growth experiments.

Raman Malik

VP of Product and Growth at Perplexity

Perplexity

Workflow

Runs Perplexity's growth on a 'growth product vs. growth marketing' split, with big quarterly bets aimed at a ~25% hit rate and activation instrumented around getting a new user to three queries in their first session.

Austin Lau

growth @ Anthropic

Anthropic

Workflow

Built two marketing automations at Anthropic with Claude Code despite no prior coding: a Figma plugin that mass-generates ad-creative permutations (cutting creation from ~30 min to 30 sec) and an '/rsa' Google Ads workflow that pulls campaign data plus brand-tone skills and outputs an upload-ready CSV.

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Cody Schneider

Graphed.com - Deploy AI Agents for Marketing (Follow me to learn GTM engineering)

Graphed

Workflow

Wires the Facebook Ads Marketing API into Claude Code so the agent bulk-uploads ads, kills losers, scales winners, spins up new ad sets, and reads performance to recommend creatives — no time in the Ads dashboard.

Claude CodeFacebook Ads API

Davide Grieco

Head of Growth @ Clay

Clay

Workflow

Led Verkada's Clay-powered ABM machine: enriched email lists with LinkedIn URLs to lift ad match rates from ~50% to ~90%, scraped HOA directories into LinkedIn Ads audiences, auto-generated 600+ personalized Webflow landing pages, and ran a Clay-enriched direct-mail campaign driving $20-25M quarterly pipeline.

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Emily Gavrilenko

Building Cursor | Growth

Cursor

Workflow

Built Cursor's growth-experiment iteration loop: A/B testing the signed-out marketing funnel by reusing Statsig from the signed-in product, with the Vercel Flags SDK and Microfrontends, evaluated at low latency via Edge Config.

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Gaurav Vohra

Startup Advisor • Growth Leader • Superhuman • Advisor @ Clay, Replit, Wispr Flow, Superpower & others

Reforge

Workflow

Codified Superhuman's aha-moment method: regression analysis on retention vs. count of a core action to pick a 'line in the sand' ('50 emails cleared in 7 days'), paired with white-glove human onboarding that pushed 65%+ of new users to fully switch.

Cohort/retention analysis

George Bonaci

VP of Growth and Demand at Ramp

Ramp

Workflow

Runs Ramp's AEO program as a portfolio of experiments: coin a proprietary citable metric ('Ramp Rate'), build programmatic data directories, and refresh pages for AI-search visibility, measuring lift per cohort (+78% LLM visibility on freshness, +24% on jobs-to-be-done content).

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Kellen Casebeer

Helping companies find Message-Market-Fit | Founder @ The Deal Lab

GTMCafe.com

Workflow

Lays out his message-market-fit method: segment a market by what actually changes how you communicate (not demographics), then run rapid in-house cold-outbound tests to find the winning angle.

Kyle Norton

As CRO for Owner.com, Kyle leads a team of world class go to market professionals who help independent restaurants grow their direct,…

Owner.com

Workflow

Built Owner.com's AI sales stack: third-party restaurant data scraped into Snowflake plus Momentum-structured call transcripts feed prospect and ICP scoring, with AI filling fields (next steps, competitor mentions, ranked challenges) under human review before reps act.

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Lauryn Motamedi

Product & Growth Leadership at Notion

Workflow

Ran the Notion PLG onboarding experiments she's personally credited with: a contextual 'Built with Notion' signup-button change that drove a 2.5x conversion lift, plus lifting the free-plan single-member cap to unlock collaboration.

Raman Hundal

Head of Growth Marketing @ Braintrust

Braintrust

Workflow

Built Braintrust's AI-search/AEO marketing engine: gap analysis on where competitors get cited in AI answers, tracking which URLs models reference, topic grouping, and a prioritized content pipeline, attributing real pipeline to AI search as its own channel.

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Sam Claassen

Founder, StartupCookie — building AI-native growth & content agents

StartupCookie

Workflow

Builds thin-harness / fat-skills Claude Code agents for growth and content ops — including this directory's Apify-to-Clay-to-classifier pipeline, a weekly "content radar" that surfaces overlaps between internal signals and live trends, and an automated LinkedIn influencer-discovery engine.

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Sandy Diao

Growth | Meta, Pinterest, Descript

Drift International

Workflow

Created a 'power-law user acquisition' framework from her Meta/Pinterest/Descript work: identify a product's natural distribution advantage, match it to channels via B2B/B2C decision matrices, then concentrate on the 1-2 channels that drive 70%+ of growth.

Channel decision matrices

Sarah Chieng

Head of DevX at Cerebras Systems

Cerebras Systems

Workflow

Created and led a hands-on 3-part 'build advanced AI agents' course: a real-time voice sales agent, a web-search research assistant, and a multi-agent user-research workflow that auto-generates personas, runs interviews, and synthesizes insights.

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Shashank Khanna

Head of GTM Engineering @ Vanta | Applied AI

Vanta

Workflow

Treats Vanta's GTM as a state machine: a one-click, Salesforce-triggered QBR-deck generator that pulls usage and funding signals into Google Slides (triggered 1,500+ times) and an AI-SDR pipeline in Clay that enriches, ICP-scores, routes to personas, and auto-queues email plus LinkedIn tasks.

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Sid Bendre

Built consumer software to 8-fig-rev, 8M+ users | Forbes 30u30

Quizard AI

Workflow

Built Oleve's growth experimentation machine: 6-7 simultaneous A/B tests on the flagship app (10+ daily across products) via SuperWall paywall tests and Mixpanel, plus reverse-engineered TikTok viral playbooks and AI agents for market research and creator sourcing.

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Luc Levesque

CEO. AI Startup (... in Stealth, shhh). fmr-Chief Growth Officer at Shopify. Previously at Meta, TripAdvisor, Advisor at Canva, Patreon…

Sakina Arsiwala

a16z Growth Engineering Fellow | a16z New Media Fellow| AI Builder | Growth & Community expert| ex-VP Twitch (Amazon), Previously…