Retention Marketing Lead w/ a Sense of Humor

Nashville, TN (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive retention marketing for a subscription business, owning lifecycle, channels, and lifetime value growth.

  • Must-have: 5–10 years in lifecycle/CRM channel management and retention marketing
  • Standout: Direct experience growing a digitally native subscription brand with dunning and payment recovery
  • Strong cross-functional scope, partnering with merchandising, product, and acquisition to improve LTV

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Build and execute clear retention, subscription, and lifecycle strategy frameworks across the customer journey
  • Identify the biggest retention and subscriber value levers (offers, UX friction, packaging, merchandising, onboarding, touch points, education, etc.) for different cohorts, customer archetypes, and product entry points
  • Align cross functional teams on priorities and tradeoffs across merchandising, product, acquisition, creative, CX and more
  • Lead customer facing retention channels (Email, SMS, Loyalty, Direct Mail, Recurring Subscriptions, etc.) by optimizing existing efforts and implementing new strategies and tactics that grow engagement and ultimately lifetime value.
  • Create and maintain segmentation frameworks and automations that scale and deliver incremental value
  • Build, maintain, and execute on a retention marketing calendar
  • Manage and optimize deliverability, creative best practices, frequency and personalization for owned CRM channels
  • Own subscription onboarding, engagement, the digital products themselves (customer portal + recurring subscription tool), dunning/payment recovery, subscriber up/cross-sells, etc.
  • Understand the drivers of subscription churn, and build strategies over time that decrease it
  • Partner with merchandising and product to ensure subscription benefits and value propositions are irresistible

Requirements

  • 5-10 years of direct experience in lifecycle, CRM channel management, and/or retention marketing.
  • Direct experience growing a digitally native brand and customer base
  • Experience managing a recurring subscription program, including deep experience with dunning, payment recovery, and product journey strategies
  • Deep analytical skills, including direct experience with dashboarding, hands-on report building through a BI tool, and ad-hoc analyses…all of which help us identify issues and opportunities faster, and act on them. You don’t need a data scientist or dedicated analyst to get smart learnings.
  • A robust understanding and appreciation of creative factors that impact business results. On brand creative for Shinesty seeks to entertain, engage, convert, and keep customers coming back for more
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Shinesty

4.5 Glassdoor

Shinesty was created for one reason and one reason only: to force the world to take itself less seriously. We create premium, dangerously comfortable clothing and sell it with a laugh. Our mother's aren't always proud but the millions of people we've entertained over the years are. Come on in, water is warm.

Founded in 2014
Boulder, Colorado, USA
80 employees (16 in marketing)
84% recommend to a friend
93% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
475.1K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$25.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
22.9%
Direct
62.1%
Referral
4.3%
Social
9.1%
Paid
1.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~81

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
7 (9% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Funding

Total Funding
$7.9M
Last Raise
$2.5M
Series A, 6 years ago

Funding History

  • Jun 2020
    Series A
  • Jul 2019
    Series A • $2.5M
  • May 2017
    Seed • $3.4M