Director of Retention Marketing

New York, USA (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableDirector/Executive5+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive retention and lifecycle growth for Thesis and Stasis by owning email/SMS programs in Klaviyo and cutting churn.

  • Own lifecycle strategy across Thesis and Stasis in Klaviyo
  • 5–7+ years in retention/CRM and deep Klaviyo expertise
  • Proven churn reduction with measurable LTV uplift

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own lifecycle strategy: Design and execute the full email and SMS lifecycle across Thesis and Stasis in Klaviyo — from onboarding and engagement to renewal and reactivation
  • Reduce churn: Build and run a systematic churn reduction program targeting M1 churn, using early intervention flows, personalized touchpoints, and subscription pause/save logic
  • Drive win-back and reactivation: Develop high-converting campaigns to bring lapsed subscribers back, turning churned customers into a recurring revenue channel
  • Lead segmentation and personalization: Build sophisticated audience segments based on behavior, purchase history, product affinity, and engagement — and deploy messaging that actually converts
  • Run A/B testing and experimentation: Build a rigorous testing cadence across subject lines, send timing, offer structures, and flow logic to continuously improve performance
  • Report on retention KPIs: Own the retention dashboard — tracking LTV, M1/M3/M6 churn, reactivation rate, email/SMS revenue, and subscriber health — and bring weekly insights to leadership
  • Collaborate cross-functionally: Partner with the growth, product, and CX teams to align retention strategy with acquisition quality, product experience, and subscriber feedback
  • Optimize subscription mechanics: Work with product and ops to improve pause flows, cancellation experiences, and subscription flexibility to reduce involuntary churn

Requirements

  • 5–7+ years of experience in retention, lifecycle, or CRM marketing — ideally with ownership over program strategy, not just execution
  • DTC subscription experience strongly preferred — you understand the economics of LTV, CAC payback, and subscriber health
  • Deep Klaviyo expertise — you’ve built complex flows, managed large lists, and know how to get the most out of the platform
  • Proven track record reducing churn and increasing LTV — with real numbers to back it up
  • Strong analytical skills — comfortable with cohort analysis, holdout testing, and building retention models from scratch
  • Experience managing a small team or mentoring junior marketers — you know how to scale yourself through others
  • Excellent cross-functional communication — you can translate retention data into stories that resonate with growth, product, and executive stakeholders

Preferred

  • Bonus: experience in wellness, supplements, or health — you understand the customer mindset and the trust dynamics that drive long-term loyalty

Benefits

  • 💵 Competitive compensation with an exceptionally generous equity package
  • 🩺 Competitive Health, dental, and vision plans (including a 100% covered premium plan for all 3!)
  • 🚆 HSA, FSA and pre-tax commuter benefits for parking and transit
  • 🚀 Ancillary benefits through Talkspace, One Medical, Kindbody, Teladoc, Classpass and more!
  • 📈 401k to help you plan for the future
  • 🏖 Flexible PTO because we respect the need for work/life harmony
  • 🏋️ $100 monthly wellness stipend for your wellbeing (e.g. massage, cryotherapy, psychedelic therapy, etc.)
  • 💊 Unlimited (yes, unlimited) Thesis nootropics
  • 🎓A strong emphasis on promoting from within and personal development
  • 🐕 A dog-friendly office located in the heart of Flatiron steps from Union Square and Madison Square Park
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Thesis

We craft scalable marketing solutions to move businesses forward by blending creativity, technology, strategy and operations.

Founded in 2002
Portland, Oregon, USA
225 employees (92 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
5K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$4.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
30.5%
Direct
53.2%
Referral
6.4%
Social
8.5%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~225

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
30 (13% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

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