Lifecycle Marketing Manager

Runway

$95K — $115K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3-6 years experience in lifecycle marketing, CRM, email marketing, or growth marketing.
  • Proven ability to execute campaigns in fast-paced environments such as SaaS or technology.
  • Strong knowledge of lifecycle marketing principles including onboarding, retention, and monetization.
  • Hands-on with email, CRM, or marketing automation tools.
  • Comfortable utilizing campaign logic and behavioral triggers for audience segmentation.
  • Proficient in analyzing campaign data and providing actionable insights.
  • Excellent project management skills for handling multiple campaigns and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Own and optimize Runway's lifecycle marketing programs, focusing initially on email.
  • Build, QA, and launch lifecycle campaigns for various user engagement stages.
  • Collaborate with product marketing to create campaigns reflecting product launches and updates.
  • Develop audience segments based on behavior and engagement metrics.
  • Analyze campaign performance and recommend areas for testing and improvement.
  • Conduct A/B testing on various elements of marketing campaigns.
  • Coordinate with creative teams to generate assets for lifecycle marketing initiatives.

Benefits

  • Flexible remote work arrangements across the US.
  • Inclusivity and diversity commitment in hiring and retention.
  • Support for salary equity within the team.
  • Competitive total compensation package beyond salary.
Full Job Description
About the role

*Open to hiring remote across the US - we also have offices in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, London, Paris, and Tel Aviv.

We are hiring a Lifecycle Marketing Manager to own and improve how Runway communicates with users across email and other lifecycle channels. This person will be responsible for building, executing, and optimizing campaigns that help users get more value from Runway, including onboarding, activation, product education, feature adoption, retention, monetization, and re-engagement. This person understands how lifecycle marketing supports both user experience and business outcomes, and you can turn product updates, audience insights, and performance data into clear, effective campaigns.

This is a hands-on role for someone who is both strategic and executional. You should be comfortable writing briefs, building segments, coordinating campaign execution, analyzing performance, and identifying opportunities to improve the user journey. You will work closely with growth, product marketing, product, and creative teams to make sure the right users receive the right messages at the right moments.

What you'll do
  • Own the day-to-day execution and optimization of Runway's lifecycle marketing programs, with an initial focus on email
  • Build, QA, schedule, and launch lifecycle campaigns across onboarding, activation, product education, feature adoption, retention, re-engagement, and monetization
  • Partner with product marketing and product teams to translate launches, product updates, and new capabilities into clear lifecycle campaigns
  • Develop audience segments based on channels, user behavior, lifecycle stage, product usage, plan type, persona, and engagement
  • Analyze campaign performance and share clear recommendations on what is working, what is not, and what should be tested next
  • Run A/B tests across messaging, subject lines, creative, segmentation, timing, cadence, and calls to action
  • Partner with creative and content teams to brief assets needed for lifecycle campaigns
  • Work with growth and data teams to improve reporting around email performance, activation, retention, conversion, and downstream business impact
  • Support lifecycle communications around product launches, feature releases, events, community initiatives, creator programs, and key marketing moments


What We're Looking For
  • 3-6 years of experience in lifecycle marketing, CRM, email marketing, growth marketing, or a related role
  • Experience building and executing email or lifecycle campaigns in a fast-moving consumer, prosumer, SaaS, marketplace, creative, or technology environment
  • Strong understanding of lifecycle marketing fundamentals, including onboarding, activation, retention, re-engagement, monetization, segmentation, and experimentation
  • Hands-on experience with email, CRM, lifecycle, or marketing automation tools
  • Comfort working with user segments, campaign logic, behavioral triggers, and performance reporting
  • Ability to analyze campaign performance and translate data into clear recommendations
  • Strong project management skills and comfort managing multiple campaigns, stakeholders, timelines, and dependencies at once


Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on competitive market rates for our size, stage and industry, and salary is just one part of the overall compensation package we provide.

There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range.

Lastly, the provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range, which again, will be communicated to candidates.

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