Director of Retention Marketing

Franklin, TN (Remote)

Salary Not AvailableDirector/Executive8+ years expFull time

Posted 3 hrs ago

Job Summary

Owns and evolves the retention engine across Email, SMS, and Direct Mail, driving revenue and long-term value through lifecycle programs, segmentation, and personalized journeys while partnering with Growth and Finance on targets and performance.

  • Own strategy, performance, and execution across key channels
  • Develop and optimize automated customer journeys and lifecycle architectures
  • Lead testing, segmentation, and personalization to improve retention and LTV

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the company's retention marketing strategy and customer lifetime value.
  • Drive revenue through Email, SMS, Direct Mail, lifecycle marketing, subscriptions, repeat purchases, cross-sells, upsells, and reactivation.
  • Establish and manage retention revenue goals and forecasts.
  • Identify opportunities to increase retention, LTV, and profitable customer growth.
  • Understand the relationship between CAC, retention, LTV, and overall marketing economics.
  • Partner with Growth and Finance to establish LTV targets and measure performance.
  • Own strategy, performance, and execution across Email, SMS, and Direct Mail.
  • Develop channel strategies aligned to revenue and customer engagement goals.
  • Lead promotional, educational, lifecycle, transactional, and behavioral communications.
  • Develop sophisticated segmentation based on customer behavior, lifecycle stage, purchase history, engagement, interests, and program participation.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in retention marketing, CRM, lifecycle marketing, Email/SMS, subscription marketing, or a related discipline.
  • 3+ years of experience managing and developing marketing teams.
  • Demonstrated experience owning a meaningful retention revenue target.
  • Deep experience developing and executing Email and SMS strategy.
  • Advanced experience with segmentation, lifecycle automation, CRM, and customer journeys.
  • Demonstrated success improving customer retention and LTV.
  • Subscription or recurring-revenue experience strongly preferred.
  • Experience developing churn prevention and win-back strategies.
  • Experience supporting sales funnels or longer consideration-cycle customer journeys strongly preferred.
  • Direct Mail experience preferred.

Preferred

  • Subscription or recurring-revenue experience strongly preferred.
  • Direct Mail experience preferred.
  • Experience supporting sales funnels or longer consideration-cycle customer journeys strongly preferred.
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The Health Institute

The Health Institute was founded to teach the ancient principles of health to the modern world. Our mission is to empower every individual to transform their mind and body through time-tested practices and protocols that have helped people heal for thousands of years. The Health Institute offers a number of programs and certifications for healthcare practitioners, health coaches and wellness advocates. Each program has been created and designed by doctors and leaders in nutrition, herbalism and functional medicine.

Nashville, Tennessee, USA
71 employees (11 in marketing)

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
10 (14% of company)
Median Career Experience
4.5 years
Median Tenure
4.6 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
4

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
163.1K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$3.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
16%
Direct
57.4%
Referral
7.5%
Social
18.4%
Paid
0.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~74
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Director of Retention Marketing

The Health Institute · Franklin, TN · Remote