Lifecycle Marketing Manager

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$95K/yr – $125K/yrMid Level4+ years expFull time

Posted 2 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own lifecycle marketing programs from onboarding to retention, activation, and expansion, partnering with Product and Engineering to define events and data, build automated campaigns, run experiments, and report on growth metrics.

  • Own end-to-end campaigns across channels to drive activation, retention, and expansion.
  • Collaborate with Product, Content, and Sales to ensure consistent messaging and effective handoffs.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop and manage lifecycle marketing programs across acquisition, onboarding, activation, paid conversion, retention, reactivation, and expansion.
  • Partner closely with Product to map customer journeys, define meaningful activation milestones, and identify where users stall or drop off.
  • Build and optimize automated campaigns across email, SMS, in-app messaging, and push notifications based on user behavior, account attributes, and lifecycle stage.
  • Create onboarding programs that help users complete setup, take their first meaningful action, and build repeat usage.
  • Develop programs that bring inactive users back, help stalled users make progress, and encourage trial or free users to become paying customers.
  • Identify opportunities for upgrades, cross-sell, and broader adoption based on product usage and customer needs.
  • Develop and test acquisition programs across relevant communities, industry creators, referral programs, paid advertising, and retargeting.
  • Build referral and sharing programs that encourage users to introduce Continuum to colleagues, customers, and business partners.
  • Partner with Product and Engineering to define the events, attributes, integrations, and data needed for targeting, campaign triggers, and measurement.
  • Own campaign execution, including segmentation, copy, workflow configuration, quality assurance, testing, and reporting.

Requirements

  • 4–7+ years of experience in lifecycle marketing, growth marketing, product marketing, product-led growth marketing, or a related role.
  • Experience building lifecycle programs for a self-service, product-led, SaaS, marketplace, or app-based business.
  • Experience building behavior-based segments, automated journeys, and triggered campaigns.
  • Strong understanding of onboarding, activation, paid conversion, retention, and expansion metrics.
  • Experience working closely with Product and Engineering on event tracking, customer data, and in-product experiences.
  • Ability to analyze funnels and user cohorts, identify opportunities, and translate findings into specific experiments.
  • Strong copywriting skills, with the ability to write concise messages that help users take action.
  • Experience testing acquisition, referral, community, creator, or paid programs and evaluating the quality of the users they bring in.
  • Strong project management skills and attention to detail, including campaign testing and quality assurance.
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment and driving work forward independently.

Preferred

  • Analytical and curious about user behavior
  • Proactive and resourceful
  • Strong sense of ownership and urgency
  • Comfortable balancing strategy with hands-on execution
  • Thoughtful about message timing, relevance, and frequency
  • Creative problem-solver
  • Clear and collaborative communicator
  • Comfortable working through technical dependencies
  • Disciplined about testing and learning
  • Focused on customer value and measurable growth

Benefits

  • Benefits: A comprehensive benefits plan, including health insurance and unlimited PTO.
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Continuum AI

Continuum is the first B2B Automated Returns Software for Wholesale, Distribution and Manufacturing Organizations.

Founded in 2023
Chicago, Illinois, USA
40 employees (1 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$95K/yr – $125K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

The middle of this range ($110K) is 8% above the median base salary for Lifecycle Marketing Manager roles in the United States ($102K).

Lifecycle Marketing Manager median pay in the United States

$102K/yr

Most pay falls between $90K and $120K. Based on 131 salaries.

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
1 (3% of company)
Median Tenure
0.7 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Funding

Total Funding
$13M
Last Raise
$7.2M
Series Unknown, 7 days ago

Funding History

  • Mar 2026
    Series Unknown • $7.2M
  • Aug 2024
    Seed • $4.1M
  • Apr 2024
    Pre Seed • $1.7M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
5.1K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$4.5K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
26%
Direct
22.5%
Referral
3.7%
Social
7%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~41
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Lifecycle Marketing Manager

Continuum AI · Chicago, IL · Hybrid