Director of Retention Marketing & CRM

Walnut Creek, CA (Hybrid)

$160K/yr – $180K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 8 days ago

Job Summary

Own end-to-end lifecycle marketing with a focus on loyalty, retention, and revenue growth across email, SMS, and loyalty programs; lead testing, personalization, and cross-functional collaboration while developing a small team.

  • Own loyalty program strategy, enrollment, and promotions.
  • Drive data-driven growth and campaign optimization.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Customer Growth & Retention: Own list growth, subscriber conversion, retention strategy and the active customer file end-to-end, including segmentation, across email, SMS, app & web push, and loyalty.
  • Testing Roadmaps: Build and manage an ongoing A/B and multivariate testing roadmap across the customer lifecycle, winback, and loyalty programs, and translate results into go-forward strategy.
  • Reactivation Campaigns: Build winback strategies and targeted reactivation campaigns to reduce lapsed customer files and to recover revenue.
  • Email and SMS Campaigns: Lead end-to-end email and SMS campaign strategy, segmentation, execution, testing, deployment, analysis, and optimization across a high-volume send program with complex, multi-dimensional segmentation.
  • Purchase Frequency: Increase customers' purchase frequency and overall lifetime value through lifecycle campaigns, personalization, and journey optimization.
  • Loyalty Program: Own the loyalty program end-to-end: program structure, enrollment growth, utilization, tier progression, rewards and promotion calendar, and ongoing program optimization.
  • Data-Driven Decisions: Utilize sales and campaign data daily to drive revenue performance, repeat purchase rate, retention/lapse rate, list growth, engagement rates, and loyalty KPIs, with regular, proactive reporting to leadership.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with leads across eCommerce, Social, Paid Media to optimize the customer experience to deliver a cohesive brand narrative and promotion calendar that works seamlessly across onsite/in-app journeys.
  • Vendor Management: Manage relationships with ESP, SMS, and loyalty technology platforms/vendors, staying current on platform capabilities and industry best practices.
  • Team Leadership & Development: lead and development a team of two and remain hands-on while clearly assigning responsibility, setting objectives and measures, and monitoring process, progress, and results, with feedback loops built into the team's work.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of direct-to-consumer marketing experience in lifecycle and retention marketing, including email, CRM, loyalty, and customer segmentation.
  • Proven experience owning loyalty program strategy and performance, including program setup, driving enrollment, utilization, and tier progression.
  • Experience managing a high-volume email/SMS program with complex, layered segmentation strongly preferred.
  • Demonstrated ownership of program performance — a track record of setting targets, reporting results transparently, and course-correcting based on data.
  • Experience monitoring email/SMS deliverability and ensure compliance with applicable regulations (e.g., CAN-SPAM, TCPA) across a high-volume sending program.
  • Hands-on ESP and SMS platform experience, including building automated/triggered programs within the technical capabilities of the platform.
  • Prior people management experience required.
  • BA/BS in business, marketing, analytics, or related field (or equivalent experience).

Preferred

  • Experience managing a high-volume email/SMS program with complex, layered segmentation strongly preferred.
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VICI Valco Instruments Co. Inc. has been the leading designer and manufacturer of standard and custom valves and fittings for precision analytical, biomedical, and biocompatible instrumentation. Our product line also includes a wide range of related products such as pneumatic and electric actuators, tubing and sampling loops, heated enclosures, valve sequence and temperature controllers, gas purifiers, GC detectors, and digital interfaces. Valco Instruments is located in Houston, Texas.For most of our history, our products have been utilized in medical laboratories. Recent developments in the treatment of cancers and pulmonary diseases indicate that in the future we will play a more central role in the therapeutic area.

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