A curated directory
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.
51 engineers
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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.
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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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Runs his entire GTM data-science practice inside Claude Code: parsing call transcripts, scoring churn and account health, building enrichment pipelines, and generating targeted outbound, treating local compounding context as a team of 'infinite interns.'
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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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As Clay's first GTM engineer, built the playbook he now teaches: CRM upkeep, inbound lead scoring, deal tracking, enrichment, and cold-outreach systems, all orchestrated inside Clay.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Growth @ Kit · Product Adoption & AI GTM · a16z Growth Engineer Fellow
Director of Organic Growth Strategy at Omniscient Digital
VP Product at Coinbase
Graphed.com - Deploy AI Agents for Marketing (Follow me to learn GTM engineering)
Graphed ↗Startup Advisor • Growth Leader • Superhuman • Advisor @ Clay, Replit, Wispr Flow, Superpower & others
Reforge ↗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 ↗Product & Growth Leadership at Notion
CEO. AI Startup (... in Stealth, shhh). fmr-Chief Growth Officer at Shopify. Previously at Meta, TripAdvisor, Advisor at Canva, Patreon…
Co-Founder and SVP Growth & Innovation at Housecall Pro - Angel Investor & Advisor
Housecall Pro ↗a16z Growth Engineering Fellow | a16z New Media Fellow| AI Builder | Growth & Community expert| ex-VP Twitch (Amazon), Previously…
Growth @ Basic Capital, the 401(k) built for today
