Lifecycle Journey Manager, Retention

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$160K/yr – $185K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 5 days ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end retention strategy and lead the execution, measurement, and AI-assisted decisioning for engagement, reactivation, and loyalty initiatives across platforms.

  • Own retention strategy and primary KPI tracking.
  • Design and run journeys, and supervise AI-enabled retention execution.
  • Collaborate with product/marketing and lead analytics to prove lift and drive the narrative.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end retention strategy and the primary KPI - Retention Rate, repeat monetization moments, D30/Dn retention, and churn.
  • Define retention and churn scoring, triggers, and intervention logic; set the signals and guardrails the decisioning stack (Hightouch) acts on.
  • Design reactivation, win-back, and engagement journeys, and build direct-deposit and habit stickiness.
  • Build and launch in Iterable - increasingly via AI decisioning - owning QA, frequency, and suppressions.
  • Design holdouts and read incrementality with Analytics to prove true retention lift, distinguishing it from compounded-cycle artifacts.
  • Shape the loyalty and premium experience in partnership with PMM and Product.
  • Own the numbers and the retention narrative for leadership, surfacing insights and clear next steps.
  • Direct and supervise the AI agents that execute retention programs, and set their guardrails.

Requirements

  • 7–10+ years in lifecycle / CRM / retention marketing for a digital product or subscription business, with a deep retention and churn focus.
  • A track record owning retention strategy and personally shipping journeys in Iterable, Braze, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, or similar.
  • Advanced data literacy - survival / cohort analysis, incrementality, and experimentation design.
  • Experience building triggered, always-on retention programs (onboarding, win-back, reactivation, loyalty).
  • Comfort defining inputs to ML decisioning (churn scoring, next-best-action) and interpreting model outputs.
  • Senior cross-functional leadership - influence without authority and keep stakeholders aligned and moving.
  • Excellent communication; able to set definitions and measurement standards the wider team adopts.
  • A bias toward ownership and action.

Preferred

  • Experience in fintech, subscription, or consumer products.
  • Familiarity with AIDs, Hightouch, or other predictive decisioning platforms.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary with a performance-based bonus scheme (up to 15%)
  • Flexible working hours with hybrid / home-office options
  • The chance to join a major global tech company listed on the S&P 500
  • A meaningful learning & development budget and clear career growth
  • Comprehensive health and wellbeing benefits
  • Modern equipment (Mac/Windows) for work and personal use
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
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Gen Digital Inc.

NortonLifeLock and Avast merged in 2022 and are now GenTM (NASDAQ: GEN) - a global company dedicated to powering Digital Freedom through its trusted Cyber Safety brands. The Gen family of consumer brands is rooted in providing safety for the first digital generations. Now, Gen empowers people to live their digital lives safely, privately, and confidently today and for generations to come. Gen brings award-winning products and services in cybersecurity, online privacy and identity protection to nearly 500 million users in more than 150 countries.

Founded in 1982
Tempe, Arizona, USA
786 employees (39 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
217.9K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$49.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
37.7%
Direct
49.2%
Referral
9.8%
Social
2%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~782

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
30 (4% of company)
Median Career Experience
18 years
Median Tenure
9.7 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
5

Funding

Total Funding
$1.2B
Last Raise
$670M
Post IPO Secondary, 8 years ago

Funding History

  • Aug 2018
    Post IPO Secondary • $670M
  • Feb 2016
    Post IPO Equity • $500M
  • Jun 1983
    Series A • $3M

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