Senior Lifecycle Marketing Manager

Apollo; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Apollo is seeking a Lifecycle Marketing professional to drive full-funnel strategies that convert prospects into customers. With a focus on personalization and experimentation, you will collaborate across teams to optimize the customer journey, ensuring significant outcomes for the business. This role requires expertise in marketing automation and strong analytical skills, contributing to key performance goals. At Apollo, you'll be part of an AI-native culture that values continuous improvement and innovation.

Qualifications

• 7+ years designing CRM-integrated campaigns in B2B SaaS.
• Hands-on expertise in marketing automation tools.
• Strong relationship-building skills with GTM and product teams.

Responsibilities

• Own strategy and execution of full-funnel lifecycle journeys.
• Continuously test onboarding and refine journeys to increase conversion.
• Develop signal-based retention journeys with customer success.

Skills

Lifecycle Strategy

Marketing Automation

Data-Driven Decision Making

Cross-Functional Collaboration

AI Fluency

Tools

Customer.io

Braze

Marketo

Iterable

Klaviyo

Job description

Apollo.io is the leading go-to-market solution for revenue teams, trusted by over 500,000 companies and millions of users globally, from rapidly growing startups to some of the world's largest enterprises. Founded in 2015, the company is one of the fastest growing companies in SaaS, raising approximately $250 million to date and valued at $1.6 billion. Apollo.io provides sales and marketing teams with easy access to verified contact data for over 210 million B2B contacts and 35 million companies worldwide, along with tools to engage and convert these contacts in one unified platform. By helping revenue professionals find the most accurate contact information and automating the outreach process, Apollo.io turns prospects into customers.Apollo raised a series D in 2023 and is backed by top-tier investors, including Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, and more, and counts the former President and COO of Hubspot, JD Sherman, among its board members.

Overview:

About the Team At Apollo, the Lifecycle Marketing team is responsible for designing and executing full-funnel campaigns that convert prospects into customers and customers into advocates. We obsess over personalization, scale, and experimentation — with Customer.io and AI at the core of our stack. In this role, you’ll report to the Director of Lifecycle Marketing and work cross-functionally with Product Marketing, Sales, CS, and Growth to optimize Apollo’s journey from sign-up to success. You’ll have ownership over some of the most critical business goals — free-to-paid conversion, product adoption, expansion, and retention — and the room to innovate, build, and make a lasting impact.

Responsibilities:

• Lifecycle Campaign Execution: Own the strategy and execution of full-funnel lifecycle journeys — onboarding, adoption, expansion, and retention — personalized by segment, tier, and behavior.
• Onboarding Optimization: Continuously test and refine early-stage journeys to increase conversion and feature adoption.
• Cross-Sell & Upsell Enablement: Work with Product and PMM to surface the right value props to the right install base audiences at the right time.
• Churn Prevention: Develop signal-based retention journeys and collaborate with CS for high-touch interventions.
• Experimentation & Analytics: Leverage Apollo’s first-party data and AI tooling to launch high-volume, high-impact experiments.
• AI-First Operations: Drive operational scale and speed by using AI to support lifecycle design, QA, and reporting workflows.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as the connective tissue between lifecycle, sales, product, and marketing teams to align messaging and timing.
• Lifecycle Analytics Infrastructure: Partner with RevOps and Marketing Ops to build dashboards and attribution models that surface actionable lifecycle insights across product usage, campaign touchpoints, and pipeline.

Qualifications:

• Lifecycle Strategy: 7+ years of proven experience designing CRM-integrated campaigns across activation, adoption, expansion, and retention in B2B SaaS.
• Marketing Automation: Hands-on expertise in tools like Customer.io, Braze, Marketo, Iterable, or Klaviyo.
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Ability to interpret lifecycle data and translate it into experiments and strategies.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Skilled at building strong relationships and driving alignment with GTM and product teams.
• AI Fluency: Embraces AI as an accelerant for writing, building, analyzing, and scaling lifecycle marketing.

We are AI Native

Apollo.io is an AI-native company built on a culture of continuous improvement. We’re on the front lines of driving productivity for our customers—and we expect the same mindset from our team. If you're energized by finding smarter, faster ways to get things done using AI and automation, you'll thrive here.

Why You’ll Love Working at Apollo

At Apollo, we’re driven by a shared mission: to help our customers unlock their full revenue potential. That’s why we take extreme ownership of our work, move with focus and urgency, and learn voraciously to stay ahead.

We invest deeply in your growth, ensuring you have the resources, support, and autonomy toown your role and make a real impact. Collaboration is at our core—we’re all for one, meaning you’ll have a team across departments ready to help you succeed. We encourage bold ideas and courageous action, giving you the freedom to experiment, take smart risks, and drive big wins.

If you’re looking for a place where your work matters, where you can push boundaries, and where your career can thrive—Apollo is the place for you.

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