Director, Lifecycle & Customer Growth

Gametime United

$240K — $270K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10-14 years in lifecycle, CRM, or retention marketing, especially in consumer marketplace or app-focused businesses
  • Experience with both app and web customer experiences
  • Strong understanding of personalization as a growth mechanism with proven results
  • History of developing and implementing products or programs from scratch
  • Hands-on experience managing and coaching a small team
  • Ability to influence product direction without official authority
  • Familiarity with lifecycle/personalization platforms, such as Braze
  • Proficient in leveraging AI tools for team efficiency

Responsibilities

  • Own and drive LTV per install metric, focusing on year-over-year growth
  • Transform CRM messaging from broad segments to personalized, individual-level interactions
  • Lead and develop the lifecycle marketing team throughout the entire customer journey
  • Identify and propose new value-added mechanics, focusing on empirical business cases
  • Collaborate closely with Product to shape the personalized customer experience
  • Work with Data Science on audience segmentation and targeting models

Benefits

  • Flexible work environment with remote options
  • Opportunities for professional development and training
  • Collaborative team culture
  • Access to data-driven decision-making tools
  • Participation in the strategic direction of customer engagement
Full Job Description
The Role

Every customer who buys a ticket represents a relationship we can either deepen or let go cold. This role owns that relationship end-to-end across our owned surfaces - email, push, SMS, in-app - with a single mandate: increase LTV per install. That means evolving CRM from broad, segment-level messaging into something built around who each person actually is - their teams, their price sensitivity, their purchase rhythm - so that personalization isn't a feature of the program, it's the operating model.

Beyond the core lifecycle, this person will identify and pressure-test the next layer of value we could be creating for customers - building real business cases (starting with loyalty and referral as first examples) rather than assuming resources up front, and partnering with Product to design a genuinely shared customer experience rather than a marketing layer bolted onto a product surface.
What You'll Own
  • LTV per install as the core metric - full ownership of the number, with the mandate to keep pushing it upward year over year, not just maintain it. This is a growth target, not a maintenance target.
  • Deepen CRM through personalization - move beyond broadcast/segment-based lifecycle messaging toward a truly 1:1 model: dynamic content, send-time and channel optimization, and offers/messaging that reflect individual behavior (favorite teams, price sensitivity, purchase cadence, event type). Personalization should be the mechanism by which lifecycle marketing gets meaningfully better, not a separate initiative.
  • Own and coach the lifecycle team across the full customer journey - from first purchase through ongoing frequency - while raising the bar on how sophisticated that execution can be.
  • Build the business case for new value mechanics - identify where a new lever (referral, incenvites or others you uncover) would meaningfully move LTV, build a testable MVP, and make the resourcing case with data rather than assumption. Loyalty and referral are the first two candidates, not the only two.
  • Partner with Product to build a shared customer experience - not "marketing asks, product builds," but genuine co-ownership of what the personalized customer experience looks like across CRM-owned and product-owned surfaces. This person should be able to walk into a product roadmap conversation as a peer with a point of view on the experience, not just a stakeholder with a request.
  • Partner with Data Science on audience infrastructure - define and evolve the segmentation and targeting models that make personalization possible, working with existing DS/data resources rather than building a parallel team.
What We're Looking For
  • 10-14 years in lifecycle, CRM, or retention marketing, with meaningful time at a consumer marketplace or app-first business - not exclusively ecommerce
  • Experience across both app and web customer experiences
  • A demonstrated point of view on personalization as a growth lever - not just "we send personalized emails" but real experience building segmentation/targeting logic that changed outcomes
  • A track record of building something from 0-to-1 - a new mechanic, program, or workstream - and making a data-backed case for resourcing it, rather than only running an established playbook
  • Player-coach experience - hands-on with a small team day-to-day, not a pure strategy-and-delegate operator
  • Real experience influencing a product roadmap without direct authority over it - this role needs to shape decisions, not just request them
  • Comfortable partnering with data science teams on segmentation/audience work
  • Hands-on familiarity with lifecycle/personalization platforms (Braze or similar)
  • Fluent using AI tools to expand what a lean team can cover - this team will scale scope, not headcount
Nice to Have
  • Exposure to incentives design, incrementality, and economics
  • Experience in ticketing, live events, travel, or another seasonal/high-consideration marketplace


The Role

Every customer who buys a ticket represents a relationship we can either deepen or let go cold. This role owns that relationship end-to-end across our owned surfaces - email, push, SMS, in-app - with a single mandate: increase LTV per install. That means evolving CRM from broad, segment-level messaging into something built around who each person actually is - their teams, their price sensitivity, their purchase rhythm - so that personalization isn't a feature of the program, it's the operating model.

Beyond the core lifecycle, this person will identify and pressure-test the next layer of value we could be creating for customers - building real business cases (starting with loyalty and referral as first examples) rather than assuming resources up front, and partnering with Product to design a genuinely shared customer experience rather than a marketing layer bolted onto a product surface.
What You'll Own
  • LTV per install as the core metric - full ownership of the number, with the mandate to keep pushing it upward year over year, not just maintain it. This is a growth target, not a maintenance target.
  • Deepen CRM through personalization - move beyond broadcast/segment-based lifecycle messaging toward a truly 1:1 model: dynamic content, send-time and channel optimization, and offers/messaging that reflect individual behavior (favorite teams, price sensitivity, purchase cadence, event type). Personalization should be the mechanism by which lifecycle marketing gets meaningfully better, not a separate initiative.
  • Own and coach the lifecycle team across the full customer journey - from first purchase through ongoing frequency - while raising the bar on how sophisticated that execution can be.
  • Build the business case for new value mechanics - identify where a new lever (referral, incenvites or others you uncover) would meaningfully move LTV, build a testable MVP, and make the resourcing case with data rather than assumption. Loyalty and referral are the first two candidates, not the only two.
  • Partner with Product to build a shared customer experience - not "marketing asks, product builds," but genuine co-ownership of what the personalized customer experience looks like across CRM-owned and product-owned surfaces. This person should be able to walk into a product roadmap conversation as a peer with a point of view on the experience, not just a stakeholder with a request.
  • Partner with Data Science on audience infrastructure - define and evolve the segmentation and targeting models that make personalization possible, working with existing DS/data resources rather than building a parallel team.
What We're Looking For
  • 10-14 years in lifecycle, CRM, or retention marketing, with meaningful time at a consumer marketplace or app-first business - not exclusively ecommerce
  • Experience across both app and web customer experiences
  • A demonstrated point of view on personalization as a growth lever - not just "we send personalized emails" but real experience building segmentation/targeting logic that changed outcomes
  • A track record of building something from 0-to-1 - a new mechanic, program, or workstream - and making a data-backed case for resourcing it, rather than only running an established playbook
  • Player-coach experience - hands-on with a small team day-to-day, not a pure strategy-and-delegate operator
  • Real experience influencing a product roadmap without direct authority over it - this role needs to shape decisions, not just request them
  • Comfortable partnering with data science teams on segmentation/audience work
  • Hands-on familiarity with lifecycle/personalization platforms (Braze or similar)
  • Fluent using AI tools to expand what a lean team can cover - this team will scale scope, not headcount

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