Senior Manager, Lifecycle & Buyer Growth Marketing

San Mateo, CA (Hybrid)

$130K/yr – $145K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 4 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the end to end buyer lifecycle and personalization strategy for a B2B marketplace, balancing buyer signals, seller constraints, and business priorities while maintaining direct leadership-facing accountability for ROI and tradeoffs.

  • End to end lifecycle ownership: registration through long term retention across Key and Premium Buyers.
  • Strategy and governance: set inputs, signals, and escalation rules for prioritization and channel bets with limited data.
  • Cross functional influence: align Marketing, Product, BAM, and Sellers to adopt recommendations and defend decisions in ambiguous cases.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Decide what B-Stock's personalization strategy optimizes for — and what it deliberately sacrifices — when buyer relevance, seller demands, and business priorities conflict
  • Set the data inputs and prioritization logic for the personalization model, and be accountable to leadership when those choices succeed or fail
  • Determine when an underperforming program should be killed, redesigned, or given more time — calls with no clean data answer
  • Present the strategy, results, and reasoning behind key decisions directly to leadership, including when results fall short
  • Decide which buyer behavior and transaction signals actually predict engagement and lifecycle progression — and which are noise, based on judgment the data alone won't resolve
  • Choose which new acquisition channels are worth the investment and risk (e.g., trade shows, ABM, new partnerships) before performance data exists to justify the bet
  • Determine when a buyer or seller issue requires personal escalation and judgment versus when it can run through automated systems
  • Resolve conflicting priorities across Marketing, Product, BAM, and Sellers when there is no objectively correct answer — only a defensible one
  • Influence Sellers — who do not report to you — to change how they message, price, and prioritize for Key and Premium Buyers, using credibility and relationship-building rather than authority
  • Build enough trust with the BAM team that they act on your recommendations for Premium Buyer engagement, even when it means changing how they operate

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in lifecycle marketing, demand generation, or growth marketing, ideally in a B2B marketplace or e-commerce environment
  • Track record of making and defending high-stakes marketing decisions with incomplete data — and owning the outcome
  • Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders who do not report to you, including external partners or sellers, to change their behavior
  • Experience designing personalized marketing programs driven by buyer behavior, segmentation, or lifecycle stage — not just executing campaigns
  • Strong analytical skills — comfortable defining success metrics and using data to make a judgment call, not just to report results
  • Hands-on experience with marketing automation platforms at a workflow design level — Braze, Iterable, HubSpot, Marketo, or similar
  • Experience with AI-powered marketing tools for personalization, segmentation, or predictive analytics — and judgment about where AI should and shouldn't drive decisions
  • Comfortable presenting strategy and tradeoffs to senior leadership, including defending decisions that didn’t work

Preferred

  • Experience marketing to professional resellers, wholesale buyers, or B2B procurement audiences
  • Familiarity with auction-based or reverse-logistics marketplace models
  • Prior experience managing tiered customer programs — different marketing motions for different value segments simultaneously
  • Experience building a personalization or next-best-action system from scratch, including data model, scoring logic, and feedback loop
  • Experience with marketing ops infrastructure — attribution models, lead scoring, lifecycle triggers, or CRM workflows

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation packages, including bonus and options
  • Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits
  • Paid Time Off, telecommuting, and matching 401(K)
  • Support for continuing education
  • Team offsites, social events, and extracurricular activities are a staple
  • Snacks, drinks, and the occasional box of donuts
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B-Stock

4.5 Glassdoor

B-Stock is the leading B2B recommerce platform, connecting buyers and sellers through a variety of resale channels and industry-leading data and insights.

Founded in 2008
San Mateo, California, USA
250 employees (25 in marketing)
83% recommend to a friend
97% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
787.3K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$14.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
25.1%
Direct
67.1%
Referral
5.2%
Social
1.8%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~250

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
19 (8% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Funding

Total Funding
$73.2M
Last Raise
$65M
Private Equity, 8 years ago

Funding History

  • Jun 2018
    Private Equity • $65M
  • Aug 2014
    Series B • $7M
  • Feb 2009
    Seed • $1.2M

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