Lifecycle & Retention Marketing Strategist - Contract

USA (Unknown)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level3+ years expContract

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Own lifecycle marketing across email, SMS, push, and in‑app messaging, building and optimizing flows and journeys to drive activations, retention, and subscription revenue.

  • Own the campaign calendar and audience segmentation to support product education, launches, and customer stories.
  • Lead experiments and measurement beyond opens, focusing on purchases, activation, and repeat business.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own lifecycle strategy and execution across email, SMS, push notifications, and in-app messaging.
  • Build and optimize ecommerce flows, including welcome, browse and cart abandonment, post-purchase education, cross-sell, and win-back.
  • Develop app journeys for onboarding, first-round activation, repeat usage, free-to-paid conversion, and subscription retention.
  • Own the email and SMS campaign calendar for training aids, including product education, launches, promotions, and customer stories.
  • Create thoughtful connections between the businesses, introducing training aid customers to the app and app users to relevant training aids.
  • Segment audiences based on purchase history, product ownership, app behavior, engagement, and subscription status.
  • Write clear, compelling copy and develop briefs for the creative assets needed to support campaigns.
  • Run structured experiments across messaging, timing, frequency, offers, and audience segments.
  • Measure performance against purchases, repeat purchase rate, app activation, retention, and subscription revenue—not just opens and clicks.
  • Partner with product and engineering on event tracking, integrations, deep links, and the data needed to power relevant messaging.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience in lifecycle marketing, CRM, retention, or a closely related role.
  • Hands-on experience managing ecommerce lifecycle programs, including automated flows and promotional campaigns.
  • Experience with Klaviyo or a comparable ecommerce marketing platform.
  • Familiarity with behavior-triggered messaging and lifecycle strategies for consumer apps or subscription products.
  • Ability to own campaigns from strategy and copywriting through implementation, QA, and analysis.
  • Strong understanding of repeat purchase rate, customer lifetime value, activation, retention, churn, and subscription conversion.
  • Ability to turn customer and product data into practical segmentation and testing opportunities.
  • Strong copywriting skills and an instinct for making product benefits relevant to customers.
  • Ability to work independently, prioritize effectively, and reliably deliver as a contractor.
  • Clear communication skills and comfort collaborating with marketing, creative, product, and engineering.

Preferred

  • Have worked across both ecommerce and a freemium or subscription-based app.
  • Have experience with Shopify, mobile lifecycle platforms such as Braze or Customer.io, and analytics tools such as Mixpanel or Amplitude.
  • Have built post-purchase education that improved product usage, customer satisfaction, or repeat purchases.
  • Have hands-on experience with push notifications, in-app messaging, and deep links.
  • Have used holdout tests to distinguish incremental revenue from purchases that would have happened anyway.
  • Have an interest in golf, sports, or products that help people improve their performance.

Salaries

Lifecycle Marketing median pay in the United States

$115K/yr

Most earn $90K to $155K. Based on 650 salaries, including bonus and equity.