Lifecycle Marketing Manager

Wispr AI, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 145,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in communication technology is seeking a Lifecycle Marketing Manager in San Francisco. This role focuses on owning lifecycle marketing strategies across various channels, optimizing user engagement, and enhancing crucial business metrics. Candidates should have strong technical skills in CRM tools and a deep understanding of user behavior to ensure effective messaging that drives retention and growth.

Qualifications

• Built or scaled a high-performing lifecycle or CRM program before.
• Strong technical fluency in tools like Customer.io, Braze, or Iterable.
• Ability to optimize data-driven decisions and user behavior insights.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end lifecycle strategy: onboarding, activation, retention, upsell.
• Define and track performance KPIs: open rate, CTR, conversion, retention.
• Work closely with Marketing & Product to align messaging with user actions.

Skills

Technical fluency

User behavior insight

Data optimization

Education

Experience in SaaS or product-led growth environments

Tools

Customer.io

Braze

Iterable

Figma

Webflow

Notion

Slack

Google Workspace

Job description

The Context

At Wispr, how we communicate is the product. That means every message - whether it's onboarding, win-back, or product education - needs to be thoughtful, timely, and effective. This role is all about owning the full lifecycle system that drives growth and keeps users engaged. We’re looking for someone who blends strategic thinking with technical execution. You’ll build and optimize the frameworks that bring users in, keep them around, and turn them into champions.

The Role

You’ll own the strategy, tooling, and performance of all lifecycle marketing at Wispr Flow, across email, SMS, in-app messaging, and more. You’ll set the roadmap, ship experiments, and work closely with Marketing & Product to move key metrics across acquisition, activation, retention, and revenue. This is a hands-on, cross-functional role for someone who loves data, systems, and clarity - and knows how to get the best out of both the platform and the message.

Lifecycle Marketing & CRM Strategy (50%)

Own end-to-end lifecycle strategy: onboarding, activation, usage nudges, retention, win-back, and upsell

Use Customer.io email platform to its full potential - segmentation, triggers, A/B testing, dynamic content

Launch SMS as a channel

Build and manage comms frameworks that scale: modular content blocks, audience logic, personalization layers

Collaborate with Marketing and Product teams to tie messaging to key user actions, behaviors, and funnel stages

Set a roadmap for comms automation that drives measurable business outcomes

Performance & Optimization (25%)

Define and track performance KPIs: open rate, CTR, conversion, retention, ARR impact

Run experiments to improve email/SMS performance and test new channels or surfaces

Turn insights into action: use analytics to continuously refine campaigns and journeys

Partner with Analytics to understand segment behavior and churn risk signals and get ahead of risk of churn

User & Product Insight (15%)

Stay close to the user: dig into usage data, support tickets, interviews, and feedback, and be intimate with the product and roadmap

Help translate features into clear end-user value across messaging touchpoints

Identify lifecycle gaps and propose new programs that improve user outcomes

Cross-Team Enablement & Brand Stewardship (10%)

Work with Marketing, Product, and Support to ensure lifecycle messaging is consistent, helpful, and human

Maintain a scalable voice and tone guide for lifecycle comms - standardizing our language and positioning in a framework that scales across channels

Ensure internal teams have visibility into what's working and why

You Might Be a Fit If…

You’ve built or scaled a high-performing lifecycle or CRM program before (bonus: in SaaS, AI, or product-led growth environments)

You have strong technical fluency in tools like Customer.io, Braze, Iterable, or similar

You think in systems, love to optimize, and aren’t afraid of spreadsheets or data dashboards

You’re obsessed with user behavior and can turn insight into comms that convert

You’re as comfortable writing a triggered flow as you are discussing ARR impact

You bring clarity, momentum, and a low-ego, high-ownership approach to cross-functional work

Some Tools We Use

Customer.io - CRM/email/SMS

Figma - creative reviews

Webflow - website

Notion - internal wiki

Linear, Slack, Google Workspace

Wispr Flow - naturally

New things that advance our ability to scale and be accurate!

What Success Looks Like

Lifecycle programs materially improve activation, retention, and expansion

Our database of prospects and users is well-segmented, growing, and engaged

CRM messaging is targeted, personal, and optimized across every funnel stage

Product feels more usable and intuitive because the messaging primes users and fills the gaps

Users say “your emails are the only ones I actually read”

$145,000 - $165,000 a year