Lifecycle Marketing & CRM Lead

Chicago, IL (Unknown)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 3 days ago

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Job Summary

Own and optimize the end-to-end lifecycle marketing and CRM program across multiple segments, delivering automated onboarding, activation, retention, re-engagement, referrals, and loyalty journeys with multi-channel messaging. Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Data, and Customer Success to define events, triggers, and segmentation, and continuously improve with experimentation and analytics.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Build and own the company's lifecycle marketing and CRM strategy across multiple customer segments.
  • Create automated onboarding, activation, retention, re-engagement, referral, and loyalty programs.
  • Design personalized customer journeys across email, SMS, push notifications, and in-app messaging.
  • Partner with Product, Engineering, Data, and Customer Success to develop customer events, behavioral triggers, and lifecycle experiences.
  • Develop customer segmentation strategies using behavioral data, engagement patterns, and purchase history.
  • Build and analyze A/B tests to measure campaign performance and continuously optimize results.
  • Create lifecycle reporting, dashboards, and cohort analyses to measure engagement, retention, and customer lifetime value.
  • Manage and optimize CRM infrastructure, campaign operations, deliverability, and communication best practices.
  • Leverage AI and automation tools to improve personalization, operational efficiency, and campaign execution.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience in lifecycle marketing, CRM, retention marketing, or customer growth.
  • Experience building or scaling lifecycle marketing programs for a subscription business, marketplace, creator platform, consumer technology company, or similar environment.
  • Proven success improving customer activation, retention, reactivation, customer lifetime value, or revenue growth.
  • Strong experience with lifecycle journey mapping, behavioral segmentation, marketing automation, and multi-channel campaigns.
  • Hands-on experience with CRM and marketing automation platforms such as Braze, Iterable, Customer.io, HubSpot, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, or similar tools.
  • Strong analytical skills with experience using customer data, experimentation, cohort analysis, and performance reporting to drive decisions.
  • Experience collaborating cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Data, and customer-facing teams.
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced, early-stage environment where you can develop strategy while executing day-to-day work.
  • Experience using AI and automation to improve marketing operations, personalization, or customer engagement.

Preferred

  • Experience with sports, gaming, creator platforms, marketplaces, loyalty programs, SQL, or referral marketing is a plus.
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HirexHire

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HirexHire (pronounced: Hire by Hire) is a Chicago-based recruiting and talent consultancy that integrates with companies short-term to provide long-term talent solutions. We take a seat in our client’s everyday operations to understand their people goals, gaps, and challenges. We then develop and implement the processes and technologies to execute a sustainable and scalable talent plan. We partner with companies expecting or experiencing high-growth, who need to rapidly hire at scale or fill a critical role. Our clients are not looking for quick-fix placements but are thoughtfully building out a hiring strategy to scale their businesses.

Founded in 2018
Chicago, Illinois, USA
8 employees (1 in marketing)
1% recommend to a friend
1% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
21.2%
Direct
58.1%
Referral
10.6%
Social
9%
Paid
1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~8

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
1 (13% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1