Jonny Longden

Digital Experience Director | Helping you put experimentation at the heart of your business | Top Experimentation Influencer

My career has been driven by a singular obsession: fundamentally changing the way the business world makes growth and innovation decisions. For nearly two decades, I've forged a unique path using data and experimentation to ignite digital innovation and elevate customer experience.

While the term 'experimentation' has gained traction, I've observed a profound disconnect in its application. Too often, it's relegated to superficial A/B testing or seen as a tactical tweak, failing to deliver its true potential as a strategic driver of growth. This narrow focus leads to siloed learning, unquantifiable investment, and continued reliance on opinion and guesswork for critical business decisions.

This is why I champion Experimentation-Led Growth (ELG). At its core, ELG is about moving beyond mere 'optimisation' to build robust, evidence-driven operating systems for sustained business impact. It's about empowering organisations to de-risk ambitious innovation, accelerate learning velocity, and generate compounding commercial outcomes. My work focuses on integrating Growth Experimentation Systems & Engineering – connecting the strategic vision, the operational infrastructure, and the customer insights to ensure every investment drives tangible, measurable progress.

My unique blend of agency, client-side, and management consultancy experience at senior levels has equipped me with a holistic view of the digital landscape. From leading product analytics for Visa Checkout and building high-impact product discovery teams at Sky, to owning the P&L for front-end Digital Product at Boohoo Group, as well as scaling a digital experience consultancy from scratch, I've consistently applied an experimentation mindset to unlock significant commercial value.

I partner with visionary leaders – VPs of Growth, Product Directors, Digital Directors, and C-suite executives – who are determined to move past the limitations of traditional approaches. If you're looking to transform how your teams learn, ship, and grow; if you're seeking to embed genuine evidence-based decision-making across your organisation; or if you want to unlock step-change velocity and impact from your digital investments, let's connect. I'm keen to share insights and explore how a Growth Experimentation approach can redefine your trajectory.

Contact me at jonny@speero.com or +44 777 909 6222 to find out how we can help you grow.

Director, Digital Experience Services

90% of all changes made to websites are based on opinion and are a waste of time and money because…

It is impossible to know 1000s of customers
Your opinion is deeply biased
You can’t rationalise the irrational

Regardless of the size of your business, the answer is to put data and experimentation at the heart of your development operations. 

We help you do that. 

We take the guesswork out of decision making and provide consultancy and training, systems and frameworks, and experimentation agency services to help you reach your full growth potential.

Email me to learn how to put experimentation at the heart of your business: jonny@journeyfurther.com
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The hot topic in our industry right now is Agentic Synthetic Testing.

Imagine this: You upload two designs. The system spins up 100,000 AI agents. It gives each one a backstory: "You are a 54-year-old from France, low digital literacy, poor eyesight, looking for a bargain." It runs the simulation. It tells you Version B won. It takes 5 minutes.

No traffic needed. No waiting. Instant statistical significance.

This technology is incredible. It is coming. And it will be valuable 𝗮𝘀 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝘀.

If you treat this as "proof," you are making a mistake.

An AI model is a probability engine trained on what has already happened. It aggregates the "average" of the entire internet. When you test with synthetic users, you aren't testing reality - you are testing against a massive database of heuristics and best practices on steroids.

You are optimizing for the average. You are engineering mediocrity.

Use it for speed: Use it to squash bugs, check accessibility, or filter out terrible ideas before they launch. Use it if you don't have the volume of traffic to do real tests. 

Don't use it for truth: It cannot predict the irrational, messy, emotional behavior of a real human being reacting to a new market condition or a brand new innovation.

Synthetic testing is a map. It is not the territory. By all means, use the map. But don't forget to look out the window at the real world occasionally.

#experimentation #growth #experimentationledgrowth #growthexperimentation #ai #generativeai #productivity

Chief Growth Officer @ Speero | Growth Experimentation Systems & Engineering | Product & Digital Innovation Leader

SiteSpect Europe

Responsible for European revenue and daily operations in Europe
Delivering significant growth working together with the company partners (including the parent company)
Leading the team with full responsibility for identification and hiring additional headcount
Maintaining and developing further relationships with customers directly, acting as the face and representative of the company
International business development and management
Initiate and accelerate commercial business efforts in support of the company's growth initiatives
Responsible for European P&L

Managing Director

Responsible for European revenue and daily operations in Europe.
Exploring new markets, attain new business and nurture the existing customer base.
Initiate and accelerate sales and marketing efforts in support of the company's growth initiatives.

Director of Sales & Marketing

Driving revenue growth and achieve revenue goals,
Attain new business and nurture the existing customer base,
Promote and enhance the brand,
Develop and manage sales and marketing efforts in support of the company's growth initiatives,
Marketing, product and services leadership,  
Influence the European market by effectively communicating SiteSpect's value proposition and competitive differentiators.

Sales & Marketing Manager

Strong relationship management with business partners, driving growth through partner acquisition, driving cross and upsell opportunities and sales, initiating product proposition and securing product and financial perfomance

Commercial Partnership Manager

narrowcastingonline

Account- and sales management 
Responsible for the dealer channel in the Netherlands and Belgium

Sales manager

n-store

Account- and sales management 
Consultative selling 
Responsible for retail, corporate, construction accounts in the Benelux and Schiphol Airport

Account Manager

News Media

Account management 
Sales and acquisition (B to B and through media agencies)
Traffic of media campaigns.

Competence Factory

Account management 
Sales and acquisition (B to B) for the Dutch market
General management

Sales Manager

Managing Director at SiteSpect Europe

You are looking at the profile of a creative, goal oriented team player with persistence and great international experience. Suitable for roles that require excellent skills in strategy, consultative selling and business development.

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