Lifecycle Marketing Lead

USA (Remote)

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Posted 6 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own lifecycle marketing for mobile apps from onboarding to winback, turning business goals into journey plans and campaigns, and coordinating with product, data, and engineering to ship AI-assisted flows.

  • Lifecycle Strategy: Own onboarding, activation, engagement, and churn reduction across email, push, in-app, and SMS.
  • Campaign Execution & QA: Define requirements, set triggers and segmentation, test flows, and review performance with data-driven recommendations.
  • Cross-Functional Delivery: Align with product, data, creative, and engineering teams, manage timelines and client communications, and document internal templates and AI workflows.

Job Description

- Lead lifecycle marketing strategy and execution for mobile app clients. - Build and optimize lifecycle programs across email, push notifications, in-app messaging, and SMS where applicable. - Own key lifecycle moments, including onboarding, activation, engagement, free trial conversion, subscription conversion, churn prevention, winback, and reactivation. - Translate business goals into lifecycle roadmaps, campaign briefs, journey maps, and execution plans. - Work with clients, product teams, data teams, creative teams, and engineers to define campaign requirements. - QA campaigns, audience logic, event triggers, segmentation, personalization, and messaging flows. - Review performance and provide clear recommendations based on data. - Manage timelines, deliverables, client communication, and internal coordination. - Help improve Appspand’s internal lifecycle processes, templates, and AI-supported workflows. Responsibilities - 8–10+ years of lifecycle marketing, CRM, retention, growth, or mobile app marketing experience. - Direct mobile app experience is required. - Subscription app experience is strongly preferred. - Experience managing at least 2 direct reports. - Strong understanding of lifecycle strategy across email, push, in-app, and SMS. - Familiarity with platforms such as OneSignal, Braze, CleverTap, Customer.io, Iterable, Klaviyo, or similar tools. - Strong understanding of segmentation, lifecycle triggers, behavioral data, campaign QA, and performance reporting. - Comfortable working in Notion and Google Workspace. - Interest in using AI to communicate more clearly, improve workflows, and reduce manual workload. Nice-to-Have - Experience with app analytics platforms such as Amplitude, Mixpanel, Posthog, Firebase, Adjust, AppsFlyer, or similar. - Experience with subscription monetization, free trials, paywalls, cancellation flows, or pricing tests. - Experience working with product, engineering, data, and creative teams.
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APPSPAND

With over 30 years of combined experience in marketing consumer apps and mobile games, the Appspand team brings unparalleled expertise to the table. Our talented professionals have excelled at top mobile-first companies like Zynga; as well as numerous small to mid-sized mobile app startups. This diverse experience gives us a unique advantage in understanding how to launch and scale apps of all sizes efficiently with best practices in mind.

Founded in 2023
San Francisco, California, USA
3 employees (2 in marketing)

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~3

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2 (67% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1