Strategy + Execution
for international growth
Most consultants hand you a slide deck and take off. We stay with you.
Most consultants hand you a slide deck and take off. We stay with you.
For product, growth, and marketing teams ready to set up or evolve their international presence. Whether you're launching in new markets, evolving a globalization function, or figuring out what international readiness means for your product — we bring the clarity and experience to make it real.
For product, growth, and marketing teams building or evolving their global footprint — from market prioritization to full program execution:
Senior globalization leadership without the full-time hire. We step in as your CGO — own the strategy, embed with your team, and execute:
Most people selling multilingual AI won't tell you how complex it is to get right at scale. We will:
For CEOs, founders, and executive teams at language service and technology companies ready to evolve how they sell, position, and operate. We know this industry from both sides of the table — and we'll tell you the truth about what's working and what isn't.
For revenue organizations that need to be built, fixed, or scaled — not just strategized about:
Efficient operations are a competitive advantage, not just a cost line:
If your audience doesn't immediately understand why they need you, you're losing deals before the conversation starts:
Between us, we've been every party at the table: the enterprise, the vendor, and the technologist. Most advisors have lived one of those roles. We've lived all three.
No vendor allegiance. No hidden agenda. Just the right answer for your situation.
Buyer, vendor, and technology — every seat at the table, at once.
Honest on what AI can do for your operations — and what it can't, yet.
We don't hand off a plan. We stay in the room until it works.
Our independence is the foundation of how we operate. We have no financial stake in which vendor you choose, which technology you adopt, or whether you engage a language service provider at all. Those conversations are not always comfortable. They are exactly the point.
Growth doesn't have to be left to chance. The organizations that build it reliably and sustain it when conditions change do so deliberately. They treat growth the way an architect treats a building: design it first, with intention and expertise, then build it with the right crew. A blueprint without a builder is just paper. Growth requires both.
That's the belief we founded Growth Design Group on, and it's why we're structured the way we are. The gap we kept seeing wasn't a lack of strategy. It was the distance between the blueprint and the build.
Jose is a Silicon Valley technology executive with over 20 years building and running global operations at scale.
He has led cross-functional teams spanning engineering, linguistics, and product and program management — building the automation and AI systems behind enterprise-scale international programs, and managing complex operations and partner networks across global markets. Long before AI became a boardroom talking point, he was building it into production.
At Coupa, a leading financial management software company, he turned a one-man localization program into a full Global Experiences unit — growing it into an organization of 180+ actors spanning product, engineering, linguistics, and program management. As CTO of Venga, he built the technology infrastructure behind international operations for Google, Facebook, Slack, Workday, and Uber, shipping dozens of product launches across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. His clients ranged from companies taking a global-first approach — launching across markets simultaneously from day one — to those executing a deliberate, data-driven go-to-market, entering new markets only when business performance and market signals aligned.
He has spent his career making the hard calls that come with global growth: when to build in-house, when to partner, when to buy a platform — and how to think through those choices honestly when AI changes the picture.
MultiLingual Magazine has recognized him as a top global industry influencer. He serves on the Board of Directors at the Globalization and Localization Association (GALA), is a sought-after speaker at industry conferences worldwide, and hosts The Global Crowd podcast.
Connect on LinkedInWhen a revenue organization needs to be built from scratch, rescued from stagnation, or scaled to the next level, Paul is the call.
He has founded, scaled, and exited multiple companies, and has consistently delivered double and triple-digit revenue growth for organizations across the full spectrum: family businesses navigating their first real growth push, startups trying to close their first enterprise accounts, and established firms managing tens of millions in annual revenue that had stopped growing. His results are measurable because he builds what's required and delivers.
As a fractional leader and strategic advisor, Paul steps into VP and C-suite roles to design go-to-market strategies, restructure sales organizations, lead M&A integrations, and build the systems and processes that keep growth on track. He has done it across North America and Europe, at every stage of business.
He doesn't just advise. He executes. His clients get someone who has done this before and knows what breaks at scale. Born in Dublin, Ireland, he has built successful businesses on both sides of the Atlantic and brings that firsthand perspective to every engagement.
Paul is known in the global services industry for his direct, unfiltered perspective on the revenue challenges facing language service providers and technology companies. He offers confidential CEO-to-CEO advisory to founders and executives navigating the hard decisions that come with scaling a services business in a market that won't hold still.
Connect on LinkedInGrowth Design Group combines consulting and fractional services because international growth requires both vision and the people to do the work.
Consulting engagements help you make the right strategic decisions: market prioritization, platform selection, organizational design, technology investment, build-vs-buy. Our team brings direct experience from dozens of companies and honest assessment of what will actually work for your situation.
Fractional leadership means we embed as part of your team — VP of International Operations, Chief Revenue Officer, Head of Global Expansion — bringing senior-level expertise without full-time overhead. You get experienced leaders who've navigated this complexity before, guiding the work until your internal team is ready to own it.
Every engagement follows the same discipline: we start with clarity — defining what success looks like and what it will actually take to get there. We don't pad timelines or manufacture dependency. Once the strategy is designed and the foundation is built, we hand it off. Your team owns it. We step back, but we don't disappear — available when the next challenge arrives.
Whether you're planning international expansion, rebuilding global operations, or figuring out what AI means for your business — let's talk.
Let's TalkOr email us: hello@growthdesigngroup.com