Job Title:Lifecycle Maximization Marketing Director
Location-Type: Onsite (5 Days A Week Onsite at a location near you - Virginia Beach, VA 23454 or Irving, TX 75038)
Start Date Is: November 9th, 2026
Duration: Direct Hire/FTE
Annual Base Salary Range: $145k - $200k
Benefits:Eligible for Health, Dental, Vision, 401K, PTO
Must be authorized to work in the U.S. This position is not eligible for sponsorship.
Job Description:
Own and transform the client's lifecycle marketing and email automation strategy, leveraging customer data, segmentation, and personalized campaigns to improve conversion, retention, customer lifetime value, and measurable revenue growth.
Day-to-Day Responsibilities:
- Own the email marketing platform and develop a comprehensive lifecycle marketing strategy
- Assess the existing Cordial platform, customer data, and marketing workflows to identify improvement opportunities
- Rebuild and optimize the email marketing program while maintaining existing campaigns
- Develop customer journeys across acquisition, onboarding, engagement, retention, and reactivation
- Identify funnel gaps, stalled leads, and customer drop-off points to uncover revenue opportunities
- Build and execute targeted email campaigns using segmentation, personalization, and automation
- Develop a strategic roadmap connecting lifecycle marketing initiatives to business objectives
- Conduct A/B and multivariate testing to optimize messaging, timing, engagement, and conversion
- Analyze campaign performance, customer retention, lifetime value, and revenue impact
- Partner with IT to define data requirements, APIs, integrations, and platform enhancements
- Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, Analytics, and executive leadership to align business priorities
- Evaluate existing marketing technology and recommend platform improvements or alternatives
- Coordinate contractor support while independently owning strategy and execution
- Establish lifecycle marketing processes, reporting, and performance measurement
- Build the foundation for a scalable lifecycle marketing function with potential future team growth
Minimum Requirements:
- 10+ years of lifecycle marketing, CRM, retention marketing, or growth marketing experience
- Proven experience developing lifecycle strategies that drive measurable revenue, retention, and customer engagement
- Deep hands-on email marketing expertise, including segmentation, automation, customer journeys, testing, and optimization
- Experience owning and operating enterprise marketing automation platforms such as Cordial, Braze, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Iterable, or similar
- Demonstrated experience implementing, rebuilding, or significantly optimizing a marketing automation platform
- Ability to independently configure, launch, and optimize campaigns within a marketing automation platform
- Strong business acumen and ability to identify missed revenue opportunities throughout the customer lifecycle
- Technical fluency with APIs, data tables, customer data structures, and system integrations
- Experience defining marketing data requirements and collaborating with IT on technical integrations
- Strong analytical skills, including funnel analysis, conversion optimization, retention metrics, and customer lifetime value
- Experience measuring and communicating marketing performance and revenue impact
- Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to influence Sales, Marketing, IT, and senior leadership
- High emotional intelligence and strong cross-functional collaboration skills
- Independent, hands-on leader comfortable owning strategy and execution without direct reports
- Ability to work onsite in Virginia Beach, VA or Irving, TX
Preferred Qualifications:
- Direct Cordial experience
- Snowflake or cloud data warehouse familiarity
- Experience rebuilding an enterprise email marketing program from the ground up
- Experience evaluating or migrating marketing automation platforms
- Experience with SMS, push notifications, and multichannel lifecycle marketing
- Experience developing customer retention, loyalty, or rewards programs
- Looker, Tableau, or Google Analytics experience
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, or related field
- MBA
- Experience building and scaling a lifecycle marketing team