Western Union

Vice President, Customer Lifecycle Growth

Western Union$250K — $280K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s or MBA preferred.
  • 10+ years of leadership experience in customer retention or lifecycle marketing.
  • 5 years’ experience in high-scale, global B2C environments.
  • Strong background in customer segmentation and journey orchestration.
  • Proven ability to reduce churn and expand revenue retention.
  • Experience in marketing automation and collaboration with engineering teams.
  • Excellent cross-functional collaboration and communication skills.

Responsibilities

  • Leverage data to segment customer behaviors and drive strategic decisions.
  • Design and execute customer journeys for onboarding and retention strategies.
  • Utilize predictive analytics to identify revenue opportunities and risks.
  • Align cross-functional teams to address customer dissatisfaction and enhance loyalty.
  • Oversee multi-channel communication strategies for customer engagement.
  • Utilize loyalty programs to encourage repeat transactions.
  • Provide executive reporting on retention metrics and customer trends.

Benefits

  • Access to short-term incentives and multiple health insurance options.
  • Parental Leave and Family First Programs.
  • Medical, Dental, and Life Insurance coverage.
  • Tuition Repayment Assistance Program.
Full Job Description

The Vice President Customer Lifecycle Growth builds sustainable competitive advantage by ensuring that the entire consumer journey from first discovery to long-term loyalty is optimized for growth. The leader uses data to drive customer transactions, improve retention, enhance cross selling and increase overall lifetime value. The leader manages a team to identify and predict how customers prefer to engage with our solutions and designs marketing programs to enable conversion.  They lead the marketing automation to execute agile and targeted customer engagement.

Key Position Components:

  • Strategy: Use data to create plans to enhance customer growth

  • Funnel Optimization: Improve how users move from to continued transactions.

  • Marketing Automation: Lead the functional optimization of martech to support automated customer engagement, working with engineering teams.

  • Retention Management: improve customer transaction frequency and boost cross sales through targeted campaigns.

  • Team Leadership: Guide and mentor marketing, lifecycle and retention resources.

  • Global Perspective: Work with global teams to ensure regional preferences and relevancy

Role Responsibilities:

  • Leverage data to create customer behavioral and transactional segmentation and predictive strategic responses

  • Design and execute end-to-end customer journeys from onboarding and repeated transactions, cross selling upgrades, and win-backs. Encourage omni-channel access – retail, online and on-app.

  • Create data-driven frameworks, utilizing predictive analytics and AI-driven personalization to identify customer revenue opportunities and risks.

  • Align cross-functional groups—such as Marketing, Product, Sales, Pricing, and Data Analytics—to fix root causes of customer dissatisfaction and build loyalty.

  • Oversee multi-channel communication strategies (e.g., email, SMS, in-app messaging, and loyalty workflows)

  • Leverage loyalty programs to build cost effective rewards to enhance repeat transactions.

  • Guide executive reporting regarding retention metrics, revenue shifts, and customer health trends. 

Role Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree required or equivalent experience; Master’s degree or MBA preferred.

  • 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in customer retention, lifecycle marketing, or customer success.

  • 5 years’ experience in high scaled, global environments, preferably in B2C.

  • Strong commercial and analytical background in customer segmentation, journey orchestration, and cohort performance.

  • Proven history of lowering voluntary and involuntary churn while expanding net revenue retention.

  • Experience in driving automation of technical platforms for marketing automation, working with engineering teams and vendors.

  • Excellent cross-functional collaboration and influencing, communication, and change management background.

  • Excellent executive presence

Key Success Metrics

  • Gross and net customer growth (incremental transactions) and retention rates

  • Voluntary/involuntary churn reduction percentages

  • Customer Lifetime Value (CLV / LTV) growth

  • Net Revenue Retention (NRR) or Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) impact

  • Improved customer engagement timelines;  

  • Completion of implementation of marketing automation platform

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Benefits

You will also have access to short-term incentives, multiple health insurance options, accident and life
insurance, and access to best-in-class development platforms, to name a few. Please see the benefits below specific to your country. If applicable, additional role-specific benefits will be mentioned during your interview process or in an offer of employment.

Your United States specific benefits include:

  • Parental Leave

  • Family First Programs

  • Medical, Dental, and Life Insurance

  • Tuition Repayment Assistance Program

Salary

The base salary range is $250,000 - $280,000 USD per year, total on target compensation includes a base salary plus a variable target incentive that aligns with individual and company performance.

Other Details

As part of the application process, all applicants are required to take assessments. Western Union has partnered with a 3rd party provider to administer these tests. Applicants will need to provide their name and email address in order to process the assessments. If you have any questions, you may reach out to .

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Estimated Job Posting End Date:

09-21-2026

This application window is a good-faith estimate of the time that this posting will remain open. This posting will be promptly updated if the deadline is extended or the role is filled.

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