Lifecycle Marketing Principal, Automations & Incentives

District of Columbia, USA (Hybrid)

$170K/yr – $200K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 1 month ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end lifecycle automation for a mobile-first consumer platform, focusing on onboarding, retention, reactivation, and high-LTV cross-sell journeys with heavy emphasis on 1:1 personalization and AI-enabled workflows.

  • Lifecycle Infrastructure: Build and instrument automated journeys from onboarding to habitual use, tying retention to scalable MAU growth.
  • Personalization & Crossover: Design behavior-triggered, geo-aware crossovers that convert engaged users into high-value fuel/food customers.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Scale the Core & Drive Multi-Vertical (MV) Ecosystem Growth
  • Architect the Automated Funnel: Lead "Core Lifecycle" work streams, helping us continue to evolve the program into a robust, automated ecosystem. You will personally design, build, instrument, and optimize sophisticated lifecycle automations across onboarding, habituation (M1–M3 retention), reactivation, high-upside viral referral loops, and more. This is a highly hands-on role requiring deep expertise in CRM and marketing automation platforms to create scalable, "always-on" drivers of MAU and retention.
  • Lead MV Crossover (P0 Focus): This will be your most important contribution. Within the core automation framework, heavily feature and prioritize behavior-triggered crossover loops. Design and test personalized journeys explicitly engineered to convert our highly engaged, fuel-only consumers into long-term, high-LTV fuel and food consumers based on geographic proximity and site-level market potential.
  • Advanced Personalization Strategy: Infuse deep 1:1 consumer-to-merchant matching and advanced personalization logic into the core communication infrastructure to maximize conversion velocity.
  • Integrated Incentive Engineering & Optimization
  • Harmonize the Incentive Ecosystem: Act as a primary growth steward translating the principles of the consumer habit, incentive, & engagement framework across the lifecycle ecosystem. Ensure our offer and bonus ecosystem functions as a coordinated, unified ecosystem that guides consumers toward long-term habituation.
  • Eliminate Subsidization & Drive Efficiency: Partner closely with data science and consumer analytics to isolate true incrementality. Build rigorous control frameworks to deploy strategic bonuses strictly at a consumer’s behavioral "inflection point," ensuring promotional spend is the marginal reason for a consumer’s next transaction.
  • Martech Collaboration & Platform Optimization
  • Support Martech Delivery: Act as a critical cross-functional bridge between consumer strategy, engineering, product, analytics, and data science. Pinch-hit and support the martech projects by clearly scoping and documenting the technical data requirements.
  • AI-Enabled Workflow Velocity: Support the deployment and optimization of internal AI-driven lifecycle agents, subagents, knowledge bases, skill bases, and more to accelerate production velocity.
  • Strategic Influence & Autonomy
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Upside

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Upside is a technology company that increases the financial power of people and businesses in the real world. Since 2016, we’ve helped millions of people get more purchasing power on the things they need, and tens of thousands of brick and mortar businesses earn measurable profit – all while contributing to important sustainability initiatives.

Founded in 2016
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
400 employees (42 in marketing)
55% recommend to a friend
57% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
463.3K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$10K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
32.4%
Direct
53.8%
Referral
8.9%
Social
2.3%
Paid
2.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~400

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
37 (9% of company)
Median Career Experience
11 years
Median Tenure
3.8 years

Funding

Total Funding
$165M
Last Raise
$100M
Debt Financing, 4 years ago

Funding History

  • Apr 2022
    Debt Financing • $100M
  • Apr 2022
    Series D • $65M
  • Aug 2020
    Series C

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