Email & SMS Lifecycle / Retention Marketer

New York, USA (On-site)

$65K/yr – $89K/yrMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 7 months ago

Job Summary

Drive lifecycle marketing for a CRM-led email/SMS program in HubSpot for a collectibles brand, from onboarding to VIP retention.

  • Must-have: 3+ years in lifecycle/CRM marketing and HubSpot experience
  • Standout: Hands-on Shopify integration into lifecycle tooling

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lifecycle & Retention Strategy: Own the full customer lifecycle: onboarding, activation, repeat purchase, winback, and VIP ascension.
  • Design lifecycle journeys that reflect collector behavior, not generic ecommerce playbooks.
  • Ensure lifecycle messaging adapts to customer maturity (new buyer, regular, VIP)
  • Email & SMS Automation (HubSpot + Shopify):
  • Design, write copy, build, manage, and optimize automated flows, including:
  • Welcome & first-purchase education
  • Post-purchase follow-ups tied to breaks, lives, and drops
  • Browse/cart abandonment (email + SMS)
  • Drop alerts, restocks, and urgency-based messaging
  • Lapsed buyer and reactivation flows
  • Maintain clean, scalable automation architecture inside HubSpot
  • Ensure Shopify events and properties are correctly passed into HubSpot for reliable triggering
  • Segmentation & Personalization:
  • Own segmentation logic across:
  • Spend tiers (casual ? high value ? VIP)
  • Product/format preferences
  • Live shopping engagement vs DTC-only behavior
  • Personalize messaging based on:
  • What they collect
  • How they shop (live vs async) and how recently and frequently they engage?

Requirements

  • 3+ years in lifecycle, retention, or CRM marketing
  • Deep hands-on experience with HubSpot (automation, lists, workflows, reporting)
  • Strong experience integrating Shopify data into lifecycle tooling
  • Experience running email + SMS together as a coordinated system
  • Strong understanding of ecommerce metrics: AOV, LTV, repeat rate, churn
  • Comfortable owning revenue accountability for owned channels
  • Hobby/Live shopping-related industry knowledge

Preferred

  • Experience in collectibles, marketplaces, live commerce, or community-driven brands
  • Familiarity with VIP or loyalty program lifecycle design
  • Experience supporting drops, launches, or time-sensitive inventory
  • Comfort collaborating cross-functionally with Social, Community, and Operations

WeTheHobby

Sports. Cards. Social Commerce. Entertainment.WeTheHobby is the most trusted and respected brand today in the sports collectibles / trading card industry. We specialize in crafting a unique hobby experience through creating dynamic livestream events, assisting customers in our retail channels, and shipping sports cards and related goods to clients worldwide. We are a passionate, forward-thinking team with a commitment to exceptional customer service in an explosive and exciting field.

Founded in 2021
Rochester, New York, USA
93 employees (39 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$65K/yr – $89K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

The middle of this range ($77K) is 19% below the median base salary for Email Marketing Manager roles in the United States ($95K).

Email Marketing Manager median pay in the United States

$98K/yr

Most pay falls between $79K and $111K. Based on 42 salaries.

See all WeTheHobby salaries

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
35 (38% of company)
Median Career Experience
6 years
Median Tenure
2.7 years

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
13.5K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
29.7%
Direct
45.9%
Referral
5.8%
Social
17%
Paid
1.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~93

Email & SMS Lifecycle / Retention Marketer

WeTheHobby · New York, USA · On-site