Hire Fractional Chief Revenue Officers

About CROs

What does a fractional Chief Revenue Officer do?

A Fractional Chief Revenue Officer, sometimes known as a Part-Time CRO, is a part-time or contract-based executive focused on optimizing revenue cycles. It’s typically sought out by companies with large sales teams or highly complex sales processes.

Here’s what a fractional Chief Revenue Officer typically does:

Revenue Strategy Development:

• Identifies optimizations for current revenue streams and opportunities to pursue new streams in the long term.
• Builds a strategy to align all teams involved in revenue generation (typically sales, marketing, finance, and customer success teams)

Monetization Strategy Optimization:

• Uncovers new opportunities for monetization, then tests and implements those strategies.

Pricing Model and Discount Management

• Analyzes opportunities to improve the current pricing model in order to maximize revenue.
• Sets the company’s approach towards promotions and discounts.

Cross-Team Alignment

• Aligns all teams related to revenue generation (usually sales, marketing, customer success, and product) to reduce silos and boost the effectiveness of revenue-generating projects.

Financial Oversight:

• Sets revenue targets and initiatives for growing specific revenue streams.
• Oversees the budget of marketing and sales projects related to stream-specific growth.

Data-Driven Revenue Decisions

• Uses data to determine what revenue streams to pursue and which tactics should have the greatest impact on growth.

A fractional Chief Revenue Officer works to bring strategic rigor to a company’s revenue generating activities. For businesses just getting started with a revenue growth focus or needing guidance in their sales-led-growth processes, a fractional Chief Revenue Officer hire puts revenue growth expertise within reach without a massive budget requirement.

When to Hire

When should you hire a fractional Chief Revenue Officer?

Hiring a fractional Chief Revenue Officer is about more than wanting to grow revenue. Here are some scenarios when you might want to hire a fractional Chief Revenue Officer:

Leading a Sales-Led-Growth Approach

• If your company wants to start with or further mature your sales-led-growth approach, a Fractional Chief Revenue Officer is a cost-effective way to provide leadership and focus your revenue generation strategies.

Boosting Effectiveness of the Sales Team:

• Even for the most savvy sales-led companies, your sales team will eventually hit a ceiling that requires a broader company effort to break through. A Fractional Chief Revenue Officer can bring much needed alignment between teams and revitalize revenue generation without the long hiring cycle for a full-time position.

Uniting Disparate Sales Teams

• For teams that have sales units for multiple products or have recently undergone mergers, a fractional Chief Revenue Officer can help unite these teams and integrate them with the wider revenue generation function.

Managing Complex Pricing and Monetization Needs

• If your product has a complicated pricing structure or utilizes a number of different monetization strategies, a Fractional Chief Revenue Officer can manage the complexity in a cost-efficient way.

Transitioning Between VP of Sales and CRO:

• When your company’s sales function has matured to a certain point, you’ll likely want to bring in a CRO to manage revenue outside of sales. A Fractional CRO can serve as a good test for your company’s CRO-readiness and bridge the gap until a full-time hire is made.