Product Manager , CRM Lifecycle Communications & Automation

Dearborn, MI (Hybrid)

$100K/yr – $193K/yrSenior Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 12 hrs ago

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own Lifecycle Communications and Journey Delivery
  • Manage the day-to-day delivery and continuous improvement of subscription transactional communications, vehicle order status communications, and eCommerce-triggered journeys.
  • Own and prioritize the product backlog, balancing new requirements, enhancements, defects, and operational improvements.
  • Translate business needs into clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and measurable outcomes.
  • Coordinate delivery across business stakeholders, marketing operations, data teams, and engineering.
  • Communicate delivery progress, dependencies, risks, and decisions to stakeholders.
  • Manage Communication Rules and Product Changes
  • Define and maintain rules governing communication eligibility, triggering events, timing, exclusions, and journey entry and exit.
  • Partner with subscription product teams to assess how bundled offerings affect existing communications and coordinate the necessary updates.
  • Ensure vehicle order status communications reflect relevant vehicle-build milestones and order updates for their intended recipients.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience
  • 3+ years of experience in product management within CRM (Salesforce preferred) delivery/ marketing technology/ lifecycle communications, or similar area.
  • Experience managing backlogs, defining user stories and acceptance criteria, prioritizing competing needs, and coordinating cross-functional delivery.
  • Ability to translate complex eligibility, timing, triggering, and exclusion requirements into clear, testable communication logic.
  • Experience coordinating user acceptance testing, validating releases, troubleshooting production issues, and driving improvements in quality and reliability.
  • Ability to understand how data, integrations, and customer events influence journey execution and collaborate effectively with engineering and data teams.
  • Experience defining hypotheses, coordinating A/B tests, evaluating results, and applying learnings to improve.
  • Understanding of how email, in-app messaging, and SMS work together within lifecycle journeys, including channel-specific performance measures and customer-experience considerations.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clarify requirements, manage dependencies, and explain issues to business and technical stakeholders.
  • Ability to independently manage day-to-day priorities, escalate risks appropriately, and follow through on delivery and issue resolution.

Preferred

  • Master’s degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, Information Systems, or a related field
  • Salesforce Marketing Cloud proficiency and hands-on experience with Journey Builder, Automation Studio, audience and data-extension management, and triggered communications.
  • Experience with transactional communications, eCommerce-triggered journeys, or ownership communications.
  • Experience with SQL, AMPscript, APIs, or event-driven integrations supporting automated communications.
  • Familiarity with holdout groups, incremental lift measurement, statistical significance, and common measurement limitations.
  • Experience with CRM reporting, dashboarding or business intelligence tools, and SQL for exploring journey performance.
  • Experience testing communication timing, frequency, channel selection, and sequencing to improve outcomes while limiting customer fatigue.
  • Experience developing automated checks, reusable test scenarios, regression testing, or monitoring that reduces manual effort.
  • Experience using AI tools for requirements development, test-case generation, documentation, or quality analysis.
  • Familiarity with AI-powered personalization, next-best-action decisioning, or dynamically orchestrated customer journeys.

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare and more
  • Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
  • Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
  • Tuition assistance
  • Established and active employee resource groups
  • Paid time off for individual and team community service
  • A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
  • Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
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