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Lane 03 · Growth Operators

Senior PM execution. Scoped, shipped, gone.

For in-house marketing leads, RevOps managers, lifecycle owners, and product-growth PMs who need a senior set of hands on one piece of work — without adding a headcount or hiring an agency. Two specialty arms: Review Lift for product reviews and ratings, and scoped workflow execution.

Where teams stall

The problem isn't strategy. It's that nobody owns the next step.

Growth teams we talk to know what they should do. They have the slides. The thing that doesn't happen is the unsexy middle: scoping it, building it, shipping it, measuring it. That's where we plug in.

Patterns observed across in-house growth teams. Your specifics may differ.

Stall 01

Review & rating volume

You know reviews drive conversion and search rank. But the cross-functional ask to actually trigger them lands on three teams' roadmaps and goes nowhere.

Stall 02

Lifecycle gaps

Onboarding email 3 references a feature that shipped two years ago. Activation events fire on a metric nobody trusts. The lifecycle map is six months out of date.

Stall 03

RevOps debt

Salesforce stages don't match how deals actually progress. Reporting takes three joins. The fix is a "next quarter" item, every quarter.

Stall 04

The "small build" that isn't

"Just a quick landing page" or "just a small Airtable" balloons because nobody senior is owning the design decisions.

Stall 05

Vendor proliferation

Five tools that overlap. Nobody has time to consolidate. Annual renewals quietly compound.

Stall 06

Experimentation backlog

Test ideas live in a Notion doc nobody opens. The team ships one A/B per quarter when it could ship four.

What we ship

Two specialty arms. Always scoped, always senior.

We don't compete with your agency or your vendors. We're the senior PM who shows up for one bounded engagement, ships it, and leaves a clean handoff behind.

Specialty · Review Lift

Product reviews & ratings program

A scoped engagement to install or rebuild your review-generation program. Trigger logic, request copy, channel mix, vendor selection (Bazaarvoice, Yotpo, Trustpilot, Reviews.io), and the dashboard that proves it's working.

  • Audit current trigger & volume
  • Recommend channel + vendor mix
  • Build the trigger logic with your team
  • Dashboard for review pace, rating, response
Specialty · Scoped Execution

Workflow audits & bounded builds

The "we'd build it ourselves if we had the cycles" engagement. Lifecycle map refresh, RevOps cleanup, lightweight internal tools, dashboard rebuilds — fixed scope, fixed price, named PM (me) on it.

  • Two-week scoping sprint
  • Fixed-fee build with weekly check-ins
  • Documented handoff to your team
  • Optional 30-day warranty period
Diagnostic

Growth Workflow Audit

The deeper version of a Workflow Audit, tuned for growth teams. We map current state across one funnel slice (acquisition, activation, retention, or revenue), identify the highest-leverage fix, and ship a roadmap.

  • Stakeholder interviews (3–6)
  • Current-state diagram
  • Fix list scored by effort × impact
  • One quick win shipped
Ongoing

Senior-PM-on-call

For teams that want a senior PM on a regular cadence — design reviews, scoping help, escalation, second opinion — without a full hire. Capped weekly hours, monthly retainer.

  • 4 or 8 hours/week
  • Async-first (Loom, Slack, docs)
  • Pause anytime, no minimum term
  • Direct access to Alex (no team handoffs)
Illustrative engagement · B2B SaaS · Review Lift

"We had a vendor and a budget. We didn't have a person whose job it was to ship it."

A 200-person B2B SaaS company had bought a review platform a year earlier and never lit it up. The trigger logic was half-built. Marketing thought RevOps owned it. RevOps thought lifecycle owned it. Nobody owned it.

Six-week Review Lift engagement: audit, vendor reset, trigger logic in HubSpot, response playbook for the customer success team, and a dashboard the GM actually opens. Review volume started compounding the next quarter.

~6 wks Engagement length
Fixed fee Scoped, no scope creep
1 PM Direct, no agency layers

Composite case drawn from common patterns we've seen with mid-market SaaS teams. Names and numbers are illustrative.

How to start

Three ways in. Built for in-house teams.

Smallest start

Systems Snapshot

$500–$750
1–2 weeks · One question

Bring one stuck initiative. We do a focused audit and hand back a one-page recommendation you can run with internally.

Start a snapshot →
Most common

Growth Workflow Audit

$1,500–$3,500
2–4 weeks · One funnel slice

Stakeholder interviews, current-state diagram, prioritized fix list, one quick win shipped.

Start an audit →
Specialty

Review Lift / Scoped Build

Scoped
4–8 weeks · Fixed fee

Two-week scoping sprint, then fixed-fee execution with weekly check-ins and a documented handoff.

Talk through scope →
Next step

Bring one stuck initiative. We'll tell you if we can help.

Thirty minutes. Tell us what's stalled, who owns it today, and where it should be by next quarter. We'll either scope it — or tell you the cleanest internal path. Either way, useful.

Book a 30-min call [email protected]