OpenAI

Growth - Lifecycle Lead

OpenAI$130K — $180K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in lifecycle, CRM, retention, or product marketing, preferably in a global consumer or subscription business.
  • Proven ability to build and scale lifecycle tooling or platforms for diverse teams and products.
  • Strong technical fluency in event and identity models, data pipelines, and segmentation; coding experience not mandatory.
  • Expertise in designing evergreen programs that foster user engagement and long-term behavior.
  • Solid understanding of experimentation and measurement methodologies, focusing on retention and lifetime value.
  • Background in creating effective operating models and governance frameworks that enhance workflow efficiency.
  • Ability to influence and communicate effectively with cross-functional senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Define the vision and roadmap for lifecycle and owned-channel engagement across the company.
  • Collaborate with Engineering and Data Science to develop the infrastructure for effective audience engagement.
  • Establish scalable workflows for safe and efficient program launches across teams.
  • Work with Product Marketing Managers to design user journey strategies for onboarding and retention.
  • Lead the creation and optimization of messaging templates and user experiences in various channels.
  • Develop a comprehensive measurement system linking user engagement metrics with business value.
  • Enhance the lifecycle portfolio by improving relevancy, personalization, and user experience.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to influence company-wide lifecycle strategy and engagement.
  • Access to cross-departmental collaboration with Engineering, Product, and Marketing teams.
  • Work in a dynamic, hands-on leadership role with a focus on innovation and growth.
  • Ability to shape the future of user engagement through data-driven strategies and experimentation.
Full Job Description
About the Role

We are hiring a Lifecycle Lead to build the company-wide owned-channel capability that helps teams reach users with relevant, timely, and trustworthy experiences. This senior, hands-on leader will set the lifecycle strategy, partner with Engineering to build the orchestration and deployment platform, and establish the operating model that allows teams across the company to launch and improve evergreen programs safely at scale.

You will sit at the intersection of platform, product, and campaign strategy. You will partner with Engineering, Product, Data Science, and Analytics on the underlying systems, and with Product Marketing Managers and other client teams to design journeys that help new, active, and returning users reach value and build durable habits.

In this role, you will:
  • Partner with product to set the company-wide vision, roadmap, and operating model for lifecycle and owned-channel engagement.
  • Partner with Engineering, Product, Data Science, and Analytics to shape the tooling and infrastructure for identity, audiences, eligibility, consent, triggers, orchestration, decisioning, frequency, experimentation, localization, quality assurance, and observability.
  • Define scalable deployment workflows-including self-service and centrally supported paths, intake, templates, approvals, governance, service levels, and incident response-so teams across the company can launch safely and efficiently.
  • Partner with Product Marketing Managers and other client teams to translate audience, product, and business goals into evergreen journey strategies across onboarding, activation, continuation, retention, resurrection, and monetization.
  • Lead the design, launch, iteration, and optimization of templates and journeys across email, push, and in-product messaging, including the deep-linked landing and post-click product experiences that complete the loop.
  • Partner with Growth DS to build a measurement system that connects reach, eligibility, delivery, engagement, landing behavior, task completion, retained activity, and incremental value through sound experiments and holdouts.
  • Optimize the lifecycle portfolio-not just individual sends-by improving inventory, relevance, personalization, prioritization, and per-user frequency.
  • Inform our owned channel / upsell strategy-establish a high bar for deliverability, user preferences, localization, and operational quality, and trust while influencing senior stakeholders across the company.

You might thrive in this role if you have:
  • 10+ years of experience in lifecycle, CRM, retention, growth, product marketing, or marketing technology, ideally in a global consumer or subscription business.
  • A track record of building and scaling lifecycle tooling or platforms with Engineering for multiple teams, products, audiences, or markets.
  • Strong technical and product fluency across event and identity models, data pipelines, APIs, segmentation, triggering, decisioning, experimentation, and deployment systems; coding experience is not required.
  • Deep campaign and journey craft, with experience designing evergreen programs that move users from message to product value and durable behavior.
  • Strong experimentation and measurement judgment, including incrementality, holdouts, cohort quality, retention, and lifetime value-not just delivery or click metrics.
  • Experience creating operating models, governance, templates, and quality standards that increase organizational velocity without creating channel chaos.
  • Executive-level cross-functional influence and clear communication across Engineering, Product, Data Science, Analytics, PMM, Creative, Legal, Privacy, and regional teams.
  • A hands-on, systems-oriented leadership style: you can set a multi-year direction, write the brief, inspect the journey, diagnose failures, and make pragmatic tradeoffs in a fast-moving environment.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent company, the non-profit OpenAI Inc. The company was founded in 2015 by a group of technology leaders, including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and John Schulman. OpenAI's mission is to develop and promote friendly AI for the betterment of humanity. The company has developed a number of cutting-edge AI technologies, including GPT-3, a language processing system that can generate human-like text. OpenAI has received funding from a number of high-profile investors, including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
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