Sr Lifecycle Marketing Manager

Omaha, NE (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 6 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end lifecycle campaigns and multi-channel onboarding across product journeys, turning insights into prioritized activation, engagement, and retention workstreams.

  • Lifecycle ownership: end-to-end campaigns from brief through optimization tied to product journeys.
  • Channel orchestration: timely onboarding and triggered communications across email, mobile, direct mail, and digital channels.
  • Measurement and iteration: dashboards, benchmarks, and optimization focused on activation, adoption, churn reduction, and LTV.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement end-to-end lifecycle campaigns (brief, audience/offer strategy, creative requirements, build, QA, launch, and optimization) in partnership with product marketing leads and channel owners.
  • Define journey maps and communication cadences that educate members on products, services, and tools-driving early activation, product primacy, and lifetime value.
  • Develop rewards and experience frameworks that connect member behaviors and product engagement to meaningful, differentiated value and brand affinity.
  • Translate insights and attrition indicators into prioritized onboarding, engagement, and retention workstreams for each product's lifecycle journey.
  • Lead execution of multi-channel onboarding for new members, ensuring timely, coordinated touchpoints across email, mobile, direct mail, and digital channels.
  • Build triggered and scheduled communications by product to drive early-life KPIs (e.g., first purchase/payment, direct deposit, initial funding, mobile adoption, rewards engagement), aligned to each product's lifecycle journey.
  • Design save and win-back campaigns for members showing cancellation intent, declining usage, or reduced transaction activity.
  • Track retention performance against defined metrics (e.g., churn reduction, save rate, lifetime value) and present insights and recommendations to marketing leadership.
  • Leverage behavioral and transactional data to segment audiences and personalize messaging by product, channel, and lifecycle stage.
  • Embrace and responsibly leverage AI-enabled tools to improve lifecycle marketing effectiveness (e.g., audience insights, personalization, experimentation, and workflow efficiency).
  • Build and manage a proactive retention and re-engagement program that identifies at-risk and inactive members using predictive signals and behavioral triggers.
  • Monitor relevant industry benchmarks to keep programs competitive and differentiated.
  • Synthesize data and insights from multiple sources into campaigns and plans that meet member needs
  • Establish measurement frameworks for lifecycle programs (e.g., engagement lift, NPS impact, incremental product adoption) to quantify outcomes and inform iteration.
  • Establish the cross-functional operating rhythm for lifecycle initiatives (e.g., intake, prioritization, stakeholder reviews, and launch readiness) and ensure clarity on owners, timelines, and approvals.
  • Incorporate cross-team feedback objectively and conduct ongoing reviews of marketing offer processes and procedures to ensure appropriate controls are executed.
  • Conduct A/B and multivariate testing across subject lines, creative, offers, and timing to continuously improve open, click, and conversion rates.
  • Apply insights from testing, analytics, and member feedback to prioritize roadmap enhancements and optimize lifecycle programs.
  • Report on lifecycle performance via dashboards and recurring readouts (e.g., activation rate, product adoption, and 90-day engagement benchmarks) and use insights to refine targeting and messaging.
  • Lead meetings, presentations, task forces, and marketing communications for retention, loyalty, and referral initiatives and assigned projects.
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PenFed Credit Union

Our mission isn’t simply to help our members get by. We exist to help them realize every ounce of their potential. We exist to educate, but also to encourage. We exist to usher their dreams into the land of reality. Established in 1935, PenFed today is one of the country’s strongest and most stable financial institutions serving 2.8 million members worldwide with $30 billion in assets. We offer a wide range of financial services helping you with loans, savings and credit cards. We serve members in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, as well as Guam, Puerto Rico and Okinawa. Best of all, everyone is eligible to apply to be a member of PenFed. We are federally insured by NCUA and an Equal Housing Lender. To learn more about PenFed Credit Union, check out our Life, Jobs and People sections here on LinkedIn, visit PenFed.org, like us on Facebook and follow us @PenFed on Twitter. Interested in working for PenFed? Check out our Careers at careers.penfed.org. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer!

Founded in 1935
McLean, Virginia, USA
2.5K employees (91 in marketing)