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Senior Customer Lifecycle Strategy Manager

94k – 134kBethesda, MDVancouver, WAWaltham, MAOnsite8+ YOE
Summary

Build and scale customer lifecycle strategy across onboarding, adoption, engagement, expansion, and retention for a B2B SaaS platform. Requires 8+ years in lifecycle marketing and experience designing journeys from the ground up.

About the role

What you'll do

  • Build the company’s lifecycle marketing and customer journey strategy from the ground up
  • Design scalable customer journeys across onboarding, adoption, engagement, expansion, and retention
  • Develop customer segmentation and behavioral engagement frameworks
  • Partner cross-functionally to align customer touchpoints, communications, and digital experiences
  • Build lifecycle programs across email, in-app guidance, education, webinars, community, and customer engagement channels
  • Create scalable messaging and content leveraging AI-assisted workflows and internal subject matter expertise
  • Identify friction points and gaps across the customer experience and drive improvements
  • Establish lifecycle measurement frameworks, KPIs, and optimization strategies
  • Help shape the future-state vision for digital customer engagement and journey orchestration
  • Documentation and reporting of lifecycle journeys against KPIs and product adoption metrics

What you bring

  • 8+ years of experience in lifecycle marketing, customer engagement, digital customer experience, or customer journey strategy within B2B SaaS
  • Proven experience building modern and dynamic lifecycle programs and customer journeys from the ground up
  • Strong understanding of SaaS onboarding, adoption, retention, and expansion motions
  • Experience operating as a senior-level IC and influencing cross-functional stakeholders
  • Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution
  • Strong writing and communication skills
  • Experience leveraging AI tools to accelerate content development and lifecycle execution
  • Familiarity with lifecycle and customer engagement platforms Pendo, Marketo, SendGrid, Salesforce preferred
  • Strong systems-thinking and analytical mindset
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguity and building processes from scratch

What success looks like

  • Customers experience a connected and intentional lifecycle journey
  • Digital engagement scales alongside customer growth
  • Lifecycle programs become proactive, personalized, and measurable
  • Cross-functional teams align around a unified customer experience strategy
  • Customer activation, adoption, and engagement improve through scalable programs and orchestration

Compensation and Benefits

  • US base salary range: $94,080 - $134,400 + variable compensation + benefits
  • Holistic mind, body and lifestyle programs designed for overall well-being
Skills
Lifecycle MarketingCustomer Journey StrategyCustomer SegmentationBehavioral EngagementPendoMarketoSendGridSalesforceAI ToolsKPI Measurement
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