Growth Specialist

About Newton Russell

Newton Russell builds the future of risk and compliance for financial services. Our platform Brontë powers critical risk and compliance workflows across banking insurance and broader financial services. We move fast. We build in person. We back our people to do their best work.

Why this role exists

Were looking for a Growth Specialist (Growth Generalist). Youll be critical to helping us unlock our next phase of growth: youll identify high leverage bets get on calls to convert prospects and ship the operational cadence that makes growth repeatable.

This is a high-ownership high-autonomy role for someone who can go from strategy execution learning loops fast. You should be excited to be in the Colombo office building alongside the team.

You should be able to:

• Figure out where growth is going to come from next (segments channels partnerships product surfaces).
• Build the playbooks and experiments to unlock it.
• Sell directly to customers run calls drive pipeline and support our sales team to close early deals.
• Scale what works (process dashboards cross-functional execution).

The role involves deep cross-functional execution experimentation and operational rigour.

What youll do

Youll own a portfolio of growth bets. Some will be marketing-shaped some sales-shaped some product/ops-shaped. Youll take them from idea to build to launch to measurement to iteration.

Growth & GTM execution

• Design execute and measure growth experiments end-to-end across channels (e.g. outbound motions lifecycle partnerships events founder networks ecosystems).
• Build tight feedback loops with sales: improve targeting messaging sequences routing and conversion at each stage of the funnel.
• Identify opportunities to improve workflows and tooling; ship scrappy improvements fast (often with AI tools).

Insights and operating cadence

• Turn qualitative quantitative signals into clear recommendations that influence priorities across GTM.
• Stand up repeatable processes (experiment backlog weekly growth reviews post-mortems) so learning compounds.
• Lean into other generalist business initiatives as needed (e.g. market/segment work strategic partnerships sales enablement ops/process improvement).

What were looking for

• 26 years of experience in a highly analytical environment (top-tier consulting / IB / VC / PE or high-growth startup).
• Demonstrated ability to break down ambiguous problems form a point of view and drive work to completion with autonomy.
• Strong analytical fluency & communications.
• Youve already built AI agents for yourself to automate parts of your existing role or personal life.
• Experience owning a pipeline / revenue / metric goal.
• Regtech or B2B SaaS exposure is a plus.

Why Newton Russell

• You prefer to be in person. We move faster together iterate in real time and invest in the Colombo office as the heartbeat of the team.
• You want high ownership and high trust. We back people to ship and learn quickly.
• You want to join a rocket-ship early in the journey.
• You are looking for competitive comp in a rapidly growing startup.

Please submit your CV to and quote Growth Specialist in the subject line.