Lifecycle Marketing Manager

New York, USA (Hybrid)

$91K/yr – $146K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive lifecycle marketing for a B2B SaaS Air; own onboarding, activation, retention, and expansion with product-initiated triggers.

  • Own the lifecycle infrastructure, segments, triggers, and measurement standards across email, in-app, and push.
  • Must-have: 5–8+ years in lifecycle, retention, or growth marketing with onboarding and activation ownership.
  • Standout: Product collaboration, cross-channel activation, and a scalable lifecycle framework.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Build and Scale Lifecycle Infrastructure
  • Own Air's email marketing system with segmentation based on usage patterns, workspace maturity, and feature adoption.
  • Launch behavioral trigger campaigns tied to key product moments and establish a lifecycle experimentation framework across email, in-app, and push.
  • Create and maintain a lifecycle systems map: events, segments, triggers, suppression rules, and measurement standards.
  • Drive Activation & Self-Serve Conversion
  • Own the self-serve funnel from signup through activation, closing the gap between interest and meaningful product usage.
  • Ship a refreshed onboarding experience (email + in-product) that reliably gets users to a magic moment.
  • Launch progressive engagement campaigns that move users from basic DAM behaviors into advanced Creative Ops workflows.
  • Retain, Expand, and Re-Engage
  • Identify drop-off points and build targeted re-engagement triggers to maintain and improve already-strong engagement metrics.

Requirements

  • Experience: 5–8+ years in lifecycle, retention, or growth marketing with direct ownership of onboarding, activation, retention, and expansion programs—ideally in B2B SaaS.
  • Experience with in-app and product activation/retention.
  • Product fluency: Proven experience partnering closely with Product and PMM on launches, activation metrics, and usage-driven campaigns.
  • Analytical ability: Able to diagnose funnel gaps, define baselines, design experiments, and tie lifecycle work to real product and revenue outcomes.
  • Writing & taste: Strong writer with excellent judgment — capable of crafting product communications that feel distinctly Air.
  • Operating style: High ownership, systems-minded, comfortable operating with ambiguity, and biased toward shipping, learning, and iterating.
  • Technical Ability: Proficient in a lifecycle platform (e.g. ); strong grasp of segmentation, trigger logic, and behavioral data. Comfortable with basic HTML/CSS for email and analytics tools.

Preferred

  • Technical Ability: Proficient in a lifecycle platform (e.g. ); strong grasp of segmentation, trigger logic, and behavioral data. Comfortable with basic HTML/CSS for email and analytics tools.
  • Operating style: High ownership, systems-minded, comfortable operating with ambiguity, and biased toward shipping, learning, and iterating.

Benefits

  • Growth and Impact: Join a rapidly scaling company with a mission to transform the creative ops space. Your work will have a direct, tangible impact on our ARR growth.
  • Comprehensive Benefits: We offer competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance, along with dependent coverage. You’ll also enjoy a generous work-from-home stipend, professional development reimbursement, and unlimited vacation days.
  • Commitment to Diversity: We believe in the power of diverse perspectives and strive to create an inclusive culture that welcomes individuals from all backgrounds and experiences.
  • Competitive Compensation: The salary range for this position in New York City is between USD $91,000 - $146,000 + equity, commensurate with experience.
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Air

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Air is a Creative Ops System for creative teams. Our product automates the mindless tasks that creatives and marketers do every day to manage content and unlocks creativity through image recognition, automated versioning, and approval workflows. We launched in March 2021 and have raised +$70m from world-class venture capital groups including Avenir, Tiger Global, Headline Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, WndrCo, and Slack Ventures.

Founded in 2017
New York, New York, USA
236 employees (15 in marketing)
71% recommend to a friend

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
477.6K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$29K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
21.6%
Direct
69.7%
Referral
6.9%
Social
1.1%
Paid
0.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~236

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
10 (4% of company)
Median Career Experience
13 years
Median Tenure
0.7 years

Funding

Total Funding
$63M
Last Raise
$12M
Series A, 5 years ago

Funding History

  • Sep 2020
    Series A • $12M
  • Feb 2019
    Seed • $4.5M
  • Nov 2017
    Pre Seed • $1.5M

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