building-growth-team
Help users determine when to hire growth talent, which profiles to prioritize, and how to structure the team for maximum leverage across the user journey.
npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill building-growth-team --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Building a Growth Team Assemble and structure a high-impact team to scale distribution and optimize the user journey. Help the user with building a growth team using insights from 14 guests and posts across Lenny's Podcast and Newsletter. ## How to Help 1. **Assess Readiness** - Evaluate if your product-market fit and data infrastructure are mature enough to support a dedicated growth function. 2. **Identify Bottlenecks** - Map your current user journey friction to specific growth profiles like acquisition marketers or growth PMs. 3. **Design Org Structure** - Determine whether a centralized, decentralized, or hybrid model best suits your company culture and execution speed. 4. **Screen for Competencies** - Use a first-principles competency model to evaluate candidates based on specific skills rather than past company names. ## Core Principles ### Avoid Pattern Matching Adam Fishman: "I get asked all the time about how do you hire growth people? And it's usually something like, 'Hey, how do we find you but 10 years earlier in your career?' And it feels like that question is missing the first principles approach to hiring a growth person. And if you're doing that, you're just patt
- How to Help
- Core Principles
- Avoid Pattern Matching
- Founders Lead First
- Leverage Specialized Advisors
- Organize by Channels
- Evolve Through Phases
- Sequence Hires Logically
- Verify Product-Market Fit
- Empower with Resources
- Templates & Frameworks
- Questions to Help Users
- Common Mistakes to Flag
- Deep Dive
What does the building-growth-team skill do?
Help users determine when to hire growth talent, which profiles to prioritize, and how to structure the team for maximum leverage across the user journey.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill building-growth-team --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From RefoundAI/lenny-skills, a repository with 1,215 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.