The Ride Platform - Technical Lifecycle Marketing Manager

Austin, TX (On-site)

$90K/yr – $105K/yrMid Level4+ years expFull time

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own lifecycle programs across product email, push, and SMS with AI-driven automation, from onboarding to re-engagement and key transactional moments.

  • Lifecycle channel ownership: design and execute onboarding, engagement, and transactional flows across email, push, and SMS.
  • Automation and AI optimization: build AI-powered workflows to personalize touchpoints and reduce manual lift.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own strategy and execution across product-related email, push, and SMS including onboarding sequences, booking flows, re-engagement, and key transactional moments.
  • Build and maintain AI-powered workflows that automate lifecycle touchpoints, reduce manual lift, and enable personalization at scale across email, push, and SMS.
  • Liaise with product and engineering on SMS and push data infrastructure: opt-in/opt-out architecture, consent capture, list hygiene, suppression logic, and carrier compliance (TCPA, 10DLC).
  • Partner with Product and Engineering on migration of pre-existing lifecycle touchpoints and creation of new touchpoints, ensuring product events and data pipelines pass to events correctly.
  • Maintain behavioral audience segments using product event data to drive relevance at every stage of the guest and host lifecycle.
  • Design and execute A/B tests on creative, trigger timing, channel sequencing, and copy and systematically apply findings.
  • Maintain high standards for channel hygiene: deliverability, segmentation accuracy, token logic, and QA.
  • Use AI tooling to track engagement & performance across owned programs and make optimizations
  • Partner with data analytics to identify lifecycle gaps and inform future program design.

Requirements

  • 4–6 years in lifecycle, CRM, or marketing automation with hands-on experience across email, push, and SMS.
  • Prior experience in Iterable, Braze, or comparable ESPs building complex journeys, event triggers, Liquid logic.
  • Has prior experience with SMS data infrastructure: opt-in/opt-out flows, list hygiene, suppression, 10DLC, and TCPA compliance.
  • Comfortable across data sources — product event streams, CRM, behavioral analytics. You connect the dots without waiting on a data team.
  • Uses AI tools (Claude, Gemini, Jasper, workflow builders) to work faster and smarter.
  • Fluent in product event data, event schemas, trigger logic and end-to-end QA processes.
  • Clear communicator across technical and non-technical audiences; strong bias toward building systems over one-off solutions.
  • Interest in mobility, fleet management, autonomous and EV vehicles, insurance and prior experience working in marketplaces a plus.

Benefits

  • Growth Opportunity: Join a company in its early stages and help build its success from the ground up.
  • Equity: Opportunity to earn equity compensation.
  • Comprehensive Benefits: 100% company-paid medical premiums for employees, 401(k) match, and Flexible PTO.
  • Vibrant Culture: Catered lunches, happy hours, and team-building events.
  • Work-Life Balance: We offer marketplace discounts and maintain a culture that values the balance between work and adventure.
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The Ride Platform

The Ride Platform is building the infrastructure for the mobility economy. Our four lines of business provide the full stack — marketplaces, fleet management SaaS, and specialized insurance — that turns vehicles into profitable businesses. ***Outdoorsy is the world’s most trusted, high quality RV travel and accommodations marketplace that includes our owned and operated destinations.Ride is the professional car rental marketplace built for high-volume fleet operators ready to capitalize on the future of autonomous travel.Roamly is the leading AI-first specialty insurance provider purpose-built for modern mobility marketplaces, from carsharing to connected fleets.Wheelbase is the SaaS operating system for auto and RV fleets that gives operators control over pricing, utilization, and embedded insurance.***We exist to unlock what's possible for entrepreneurs in the mobility economy.

Founded in 2015
Austin, Texas, USA
288 employees (31 in marketing)

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~288

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
21 (7% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1