Principal at Elemental Growth.

About Elemental Growth

Elemental Growth is an elite consulting firm that helps subscription apps scale their businesses. We partner with rapidly growing consumer and prosumer subscription companies to help them define their growth strategies, build their growth models, hire their growth teams, scale their growth processes, optimize their growth channels, and achieve their full potential. In the past two years, we’ve worked with >30 rapidly growing subscription startups, including top AI apps like Perplexity, Gamma, ElevenLabs, and Tolan, as well as category-leading subscription apps like Chess.com, GameChanger, Preply, and Imprint, all while maintaining an average client NPS of 88% and an average engagement duration of >7 months.

About the Role

Principals are our primary engagement leaders, responsible for onboarding new clients, building strong relationships, delivering high-value insights that lead to measurable impact, and maintaining high client satisfaction scores. Principals are expected to help continuously improve the firm’s OS and processes, and encouraged to contribute to thought leadership, attend conferences and other events, and invest in developing relationships with prospective clients to accelerate revenue growth. A fully-ramped Principal supports 5-6 concurrent clients, initially as a generalist but ultimately as a practice area leader specializing in one of five key verticals, which include Education, Health & Fitness, Productivity, Entertainment, or Lifestyle. Eventually, Principals may also be expected to manage a team of 1-2 Associates plus fractional Specialists across functions like Product, Marketing, Design, and Engineering. While Elemental Growth is based in Colorado, we are a remote distributed team, and this role is open to anyone in the US.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of growth consulting engagements for 5–6 clients
• Outline and continuously refine client growth strategies and tactical workplans
• Ensure delivery of high-quality insights that translate into quantifiable client impact
• Serve as the POC for all client communications, including asynchronous conversations in Slack as well as weekly client meetings and monthly steering committee calls
• Maintain high client NPS scores (80%+) that drive healthy client retention (6+ months)
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of Elemental Growth’s OS and processes
• Engage in thought leadership, attend conferences, and cultivate prospective clients
• Eventually manage a team of 1-2 Associates, as well as a fractional team of Specialists

Qualifications

• 3-5+ years in client-facing management or technical consulting roles AND/OR 3-5+ years in product, marketing, and/or growth roles at one or more tech startups
• Outstanding written and verbal client-facing and executive communication abilities
• Demonstrated success impacting activation, retention, and/or monetization metrics
• Strong quantitative skills, including benchmarking, growth modeling, and survey analysis
• Professional, organized, and highly responsive, with consistent attention to detail
• Entrepreneurial and collaborative, with the ability to thrive in a startup environment
• Proficiency in tools like Figma, Mixpanel, Amplitude, PostHog, Braze, and Customer.io
• Bonus: Experience working at a rapidly-growing consumer or prosumer subscription app (e.g., Duolingo, Strava, Calm, Noom, Flo, Tinder, Canva, Notion, Perplexity, or Gamma)