About Us
Vector Growth Labs was born out of a simple, recurring observation: All companies must continuously re-engineer every part of their business to elude growth plateaus on their journey from $10M to $100M to $1B+ annual revenue.
Sometimes, these growth plateaus manifest as a slowdown in revenue growth or even a decline. In those cases, the urgency is apparent. Often, they are more disguised and therefore more insidious: a dated product roadmap. In these cases, the book of products or services a company takes to market continues to sell, even grow. However, innovative companies recognize that even a stable, growing offering, if not refreshed with intention, bears the seeds of its own decline.
Growth plateaus are not failures of ambition or talent; instead, they are systemic stalls caused by the interdependencies of functions that are often treated in isolation. Sales points to marketing, which points to product, which points to finance, and HR is left out of the growth conversation altogether. We observed that growth plateaus are often misdiagnosed as a single-function problem when, in reality, they are multi-disciplinary gaps in alignment.
We founded Vector Growth Labs to treat growth as an interconnected system. Role clarity, incentives, and training in HR have a direct influence on seller performance. Product-market fit determines how easily a product or service can be sold, and the pricing strategy must match the customer’s perceived or expected value from the offering. Marketing, SDRs, and campaigns open new doors, but only if they’re paired with precisely effective sales enablement, agile technical architects, and customer success teams who can deliver outcomes. No one function can carry a company past $50M or $100M alone—it requires orchestration.
Our conviction is that breaking plateaus demands deliberate cross-functional design and a healthy dose of self-actualization within and across the company. That’s why we help CEOs and CROs reframe each part of their companies as collaborative elements of a growth engine where every lever—product, pricing, people, process, and positioning—works in harmony. We’ve seen firsthand that organizations that embrace this systemic approach can reignite momentum, expanding faster, retaining customers longer, and compounding enterprise value more predictably.
Vector Growth Labs exists for leaders who refuse to accept stalled or decreasing growth. We bring the diagnostics, methods, facts, straight talk, ability, and will to implement change with you, along with hands-on expertise to help firms unlock their next ascent—not by optimizing one function or pursuing individual fixes, but by aligning the whole system to show up in unison for the customer.
Who We Serve
Our clients are usually mid-market firms, often in software, services, and technology, and are a mix of PE-sponsored, venture-backed, founder-owned, and publicly held companies that want to avoid a growth plateau and need an elastic, operator-led team to scale faster with confidence.
What Makes Us Different
Embedded full-stack operating team - Operators who plan, build, and run GTM, RevOps, pricing, enablement, and customer value. One accountable team, weekly outputs.
Outcome-aligned engagement - Scope and fees tied to defined outcomes and milestones.
Week-one go-live - Launch an initial work sprint in week one; compound progress with a weekly operating cadence.
AI-first, where it moves the P&L - Seller assist, automation, and decision support, instrumented in the tools your teams and customers already use.
Evidence-led governance - Go/no-go criteria, attribution, and investor-ready reporting; forecasts that track to plan.
De-risking customer concentration - Broaden the logo mix and diversify revenue across accounts; balance channels and segments to reduce exposure.
Founders
Jay Harrison – Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Jay Harrison has built a career at the intersection of enterprise SaaS, cloud, and services, leading transformations that accelerate growth and drive shareholder value. He brings three decades of experience advising and operating companies through go-to-market reinvention, complex integrations and technology modernization. Having owned each of the major functions needed to drive operational excellence across an organization, Jay is a recognized global M&A/post-merger integration expert who has seamlessly unified organizations from all corners of the globe and readied them to scale. He is a transformation-minded operator with deep PE and enterprise experience whose experience translates directly into board-ready execution for mid-market firms.
Bradley Gifford – Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Brad is a go to market visionary, innovative commercial leader, and growth catalyst with a history building and strengthening revenue and operational infrastructures. He has engineered nine-figure deals, built world-class enterprise growth engines, and helped numerous mid-market companies overcome growth plateaus. He also has led multibillion-dollar M&A integrations and divestitures in the software, services and tech industries. He also specializes in bringing an AI-first playbook to forecast precision and seller productivity. Refreshingly honest and direct, Brad has a reputation for challenging the status quo and leading breakthrough engagements with boards and the C-suite to engineer meaningful change. From strategy through implementation, he partners with senior leaders to construct and align the interdependent elements of their growth engine and unlock extraordinary growth.
