Lifecycle Lead

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

$230K/yr – $270K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 13 days ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end lifecycle growth programs and translate signals into personalized, data-backed engagements at scale while building scalable systems and leading a high-impact lifecycle marketing team.

  • Own always-on journeys from strategy to launch
  • Collaborate with Data and Product to measure lift and refine strategies

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own always-on lifecycle journeys end-to-end: Design and run growth programs that drive adoption, repeat usage, and monetization outcomes, turning "first try" into "part of how I work”. Act as a strategic operator, you’ll bring work from high-level strategy through to launch, owning everything in between.
  • Build systems that scale: Bring systems thinking to how Lifecycle Marketing operates—from intake and campaign execution to QA, measurement, and channel governance—using AI and automation to increase velocity and quality across programs. Flex technical fluency in product-led marketing, including reverse ETL, data pipelines, APIs, webhooks, and event-based triggers to design sophisticated, personalized journeys.
  • Translate customer signals into targeted engagement: Synthesize research, support, community, and sales inputs into audience definitions and behavioral triggers that deliver the right message at the right moment—across email and in-product—for every user context, from new members to power users. Turn engagement data, experiment results, and behavioral patterns into clear readouts, roadmap influence, and persuasive narratives for stakeholders.
  • Be data-backed: Partner with Data and Product to define hypotheses, implement tracking, measure lift, and share learnings. Bring alignment on lifecycle touchpoints with Product Growth and PMMs to ensure cohesive, not disconnected, experiences.
  • Build a world-class team: Lead and define the bleed edge for a team of lifecycle marketers who are defining the future in a rapidly changing environment.

Requirements

  • 8+ years experience in lifecycle marketing, product management, growth marketing, product marketing, or product-led engagement, with PLG experience preferred
  • Proven track record owning always-on, triggered lifecycle programs end to end that drive measurable adoption, retention, and monetization outcomes
  • Strong MarTech system fluency in concepts such as reverse ETL, data pipelines, APIs, webhooks, and more that enable you to build workflows from brief to build, to launch and measure
  • Systems mindset and love for building repeatable processes and improving tooling to scale quality and velocity with the help of AI and Agents. You can answer the question of “what have you built with AI in the last 90 days?”
  • Comfort with designing A/B tests with pre-registered hypotheses and holdout groups. You can explain statistical significance to a non-technical stakeholder.
  • Strong customer empathy and segmentation instincts—able to synthesize qualitative + quantitative inputs into clear audience definitions, intent models, and lifecycle interventions.
  • Excellent messaging and copy craft with a user-first lens, able to turn fuzzy problems into clear narratives and next best actions
  • Strong storytelling and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to turn insights into clear strategy, priorities, and persuasive narratives
  • Analytical strength and ability to define success metrics, partner with Data and Engineering on eventing, and evaluate results with discipline
  • You don’t need to be an AI expert, but you’re curious and willing to adopt AI tools to work smarter and deliver better results.

Preferred

  • Experience across B2B, B2C, and B2C2B surfaces and journeys
  • Experience with Customer.io, Figma, HTML, and basic SQL
  • Comfort using AI and automation tools to streamline lifecycle operations and enable personalization at scale
  • Experience partnering closely with Product Growth teams and shipping in high-velocity environments
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Fast Forward Rewind

“This is exactly what we need”Hearing this from users during one of my recent consultancy engagements means the world to me. It’s why I do what I do. Their satisfaction is the gauge that measures commercial success. Users are the heart of it all.But how did I get to a position to elicit such a strong response? One look at my CV and you see pioneering use of industrial robotics, AI and manufacturing for Fortune 500 companies. Sure, there’s industrial design, automotive, architecture, even art - so where does the user empathy come from? Let’s rewind a little bit. Like many people, the time afforded through the COVID lockdowns gave me pause for thought: As a serial entrepreneur I had fallen into the technology trap - a fantastic place for building more and more tech, but at the cost of finding less and less place for this tech to call a home in the real world. I realised that the privilege of synthesising good products only comes after deep analysis of user needs - it sounds simple, but it’s a discipline to stay the course through repeated experiments and iteration cycles long enough to get those results. And without accountability the operator can fall foul of inherent bias. I had.If the goal of the User Experience/Design Thinking/Human Centred Design/Lean Startup/Customer Development frameworks is increasing objectivity of observations, then we need the option to take a step backwards if we want to see what’s really happening.Fast forward to today, and I have built these frameworks into an interconnected Notion database to make the observation-hypothesis-experiment-validation cycle explicit - from discovery stages through to product delivery - to keep you aware of whether the outcomes remain aligned to the user need.How to finish? With the confidence that you know the user problems inside out, you can assemble the right combination of technology to deliver results. Hence the quote above.

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