Senior Director of Lifecycle Strategy

Seattle, WA (On-site)

$197K/yr – $262K/yrSenior Level15+ years expFull time

Posted 16 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own and optimize lifecycle growth programs across acquisition, activation, retention, and monetization, leading cross-functional initiatives and building scalable, data-driven capabilities.

  • Define and measure key lifecycle metrics and priorities with senior stakeholders
  • Lead a high-performing team and partnerships with Product, Data Science, and Brand to drive strategic roadmap and experimentation

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Design and drive key metrics for measuring lifecycle performance across conversion, retention, reactivation, and monetization
  • Identify the highest leverage opportunities in the customer journey to drive growth, and drive alignment across the business in how we prioritize those investments
  • Partner with executive leadership to align lifecycle strategy with company-wide growth objectives.
  • Effectively influence the global strategic roadmap through effective cross-functional collaboration, particularly with Product, Data Science, Analytics, and Brand
  • Drive business cases and secure buy-in for lifecycle resourcing and program bets
  • Lead cross-functional initiatives spanning Product, Data Science, Engineering, Brand, and Operations to deliver cohesive lifecycle experiences
  • Ensure foundational data, infrastructure, platform tools, and measurement are in place to run a high-functioning program
  • Collaborate with Product teams on shared user journey roadmaps that prioritize customer needs and the problems we need to solve to achieve business objectives
  • Partner with Data Science and Analytics to both develop predictive models that improve lifecycle investment priorities and implement scalable testing methods
  • Collaborate with Brand to ensure we have well crafted and scalable messaging and creative strategies for running the lifecycle program

Requirements

  • 15+ years of experience in, Lifecycle Strategy, Email Strategy, or Growth
  • Proven track record of building high performing lifecycle programs that have demonstrated material impact on growth businesses
  • Experience successfully prioritizing lifecycle bets by understanding product opportunities, impacts, and risks
  • Deep experience partnering with data science, marketing technology teams, and analysts to develop lifecycle data strategy, experimentation and measurement methods, and to inform forward looking investments
  • Strong technical background in CRM platform design (Iterable, Braze) and CDP requirements for successful lifecycle programs
  • Best in class knowledge of lifecycle channels, particularly: in web/app, push, email, and SMS
  • Proven experience working with analytical measurement tools like Amplitude to identify opportunities and measure program results
  • Enjoys operating in a highly matrixed environment and is very effective at driving cross-functional initiatives and influencing senior partners without direct authority
  • Experience operating in consumer tech companies and/or marketplaces strongly preferred

Preferred

  • Experience operating in consumer tech companies and/or marketplaces strongly preferred

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation
  • 401k match
  • Long-term incentive plan with a company performance-based cash payout
  • Flexible PTO
  • Competitive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Commuter benefits
  • Bring your dog to work (and unlimited puppy time)
  • Pet benefits, including $1,000 toward bringing home a new dog or cat
  • Stocked fridges, coffee, soda, and lots of treats (for humans and dogs) and free catered lunches monthly
  • Regular team activities performed in-person and virtually
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Rover

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At Rover, everyone has ownership of their work and the opportunity to make a true impact. We believe that being diverse and inclusive is key to our success and encourage every employee to share their unique perspective while being their true self. We believe everyone deserves the unconditional love of a pet, and Rover exists to make it easier to experience that love. We’re supporting dog owners and empowering dog sitters to run thriving pet-care businesses in your neighborhoods. The Rover app and website connect dog and cat parents with loving pet sitters and dog walkers in neighborhoods across the US, Canada, and Europe.

Founded in 2011
Seattle, Washington, USA
11K employees (96 in marketing)
67% recommend to a friend
70% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$197K/yr – $262K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

Lifecycle Marketing median pay in the United States

$115K/yr

Most pay falls between $90K and $155K. Based on 713 salaries.

See all Rover salaries

Funding

Total Funding
$360.9M
Last Raise
$50M
Post IPO Equity, 5 years ago

Funding History

  • Aug 2021
    Post IPO Equity • $50M
  • May 2018
    Series G • $125M
  • May 2018
    Debt Financing • $30M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
6M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$248.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
37%
Direct
58.4%
Referral
2.6%
Social
1.3%
Paid
0.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~11.1K
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Senior Director of Lifecycle Strategy

Rover · Seattle, WA · On-site