Senior Strategist

Portland, OR (Hybrid)

$80K/yr – $100K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive lifecycle marketing and end-to-end campaign strategy across cross-functional teams, turning insights into optimized acquisition, activation, retention, and reactivation efforts.

  • Own end-to-end campaign planning, building, testing, launching, and analyzing.
  • Must-have: 8+ years in cross-functional brand, consumer, creative, and tech teams.
  • Standout: Proven lifecycle strategy impact on customer lifetime value and retention.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Conduct market research and analyze consumer trends, turning insights into actionable strategies and comprehensive reports that drive campaign decisions.
  • Stay ahead of industry trends, emerging technologies, and competitor moves, consistently bringing fresh ideas to every campaign.
  • Develop, pitch, and implement lifecycle marketing strategies to optimize customer acquisition, activation, retention, and reactivation.
  • Collaborate with marketing, design, and content teams to translate insights into compelling narratives—spanning messaging, visual storytelling, and IRL or digital activations.
  • Ideate, develop, and launch innovative campaigns across digital, social, and traditional media channels.
  • Develop loyalty strategies that drive engagement and retention.
  • Integrate loyalty programs into lifecycle marketing efforts.
  • Create membership experiences that build community and brand affinity.
  • Lead and optimize ad performance initiatives, analyzing results and continuously refining campaigns for maximum impact.
  • Own the end-to-end campaign process, including planning, building, testing, launching, and analyzing.

Requirements

  • 8+ years experience working in highly cross-functional teams including brand, consumer, creative and technology.
  • A desire to do hard work and celebrate the success that comes with it.
  • Deep consumer lifecycle communications knowledge, understanding the consumer journey from awareness to conversion and beyond, through onboarding, retention and churn winback to drive long-term lifetime value from consumers.
  • Extreme attention to detail.
  • Ability to translate data and insights into actionable strategic plans and creative solutions.
  • Proven track record of presenting your work to internal teams, senior leadership, and client partners.
  • Proven experience in a brand strategy, marketing, advertising, or branding role.
  • Strong understanding of digital and social media platforms, including paid and organic content strategies.
  • Self starter with strong interpersonal and communication skills.

Benefits

  • We provide a competitive benefits package that includes paid holidays, vacation/personal time, 401k matching, 401k loans, health, dental, vision, long-term disability, life insurance, paid paternity and maternity leave, and more.
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Founded in 2006
Portland, Oregon, USA
78 employees (26 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
2.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
30.5%
Direct
44.6%
Referral
5.7%
Social
17.7%
Paid
1.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~78

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
12 (15% of company)