Senior Lifecycle Strategist

OpenAI; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Relocation assistance

Occasional travel

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Senior Lifecycle Strategist in San Francisco, CA to define how prospects and customers move through personalized journeys across the B2B lifecycle. Youll own lifecycle strategy, audience and journey architecture, testing priorities, and performance recommendations with delivery support from a Lifecycle Marketing Manager.

In this role, you will focus initially on prospect nurture, database activation, and sales handoff, expanding later to adoption, cross-sell, retention and

Qualifications

• 10+ years in B2B lifecycle, CRM, retention, growth or marketing automation with ownership of multi‑stage journeys.
• Deep knowledge of segmentation, nurture, personalization, automation, experimentation, deliverability, consent, and lifecycle measurement.
• Hands‑on fluency with enterprise marketing automation and CRM concepts; Marketo and Salesforce experience is valuable.
• Track record of improving outcomes such as qualified conversion, activation, pipeline, adoption, retention, or expansion.

Responsibilities

• Define the B2B lifecycle strategy, journey architecture, audience framework, communication principles, and roadmap across prospect and customer stages.
• Design nurture and activation programs that respond to fit, persona, segment, product interest, engagement, intent, and sales status.
• Partner with RevOps, Data, Web, SDR, Sales, and Product teams to establish triggers, scoring inputs, routing, suppression, exits, and SLAs.
• Translate strategy into clear program requirements, content needs, build plans, QA standards, and launch sequencing.
• Own the lifecycle experimentation agenda across segmentation, messaging, cadence, content, channel, triggers, and CTAs.
• Develop the measurement framework across reachable audience, engagement quality, progression, conversion, velocity, pipeline, adoption, retention.
• Improve database health and addressability via acquisition quality, enrichment, consent, deliverability, governance, and hygiene.
• Build durable lifecycle playbooks and governance balancing personalization with scalable execution.

Skills

B2B lifecycle

CRM

retention

growth

marketing automation

segmentation

nurture

personalization

automation

experimentation

deliverability

consent

lifecycle measurement

Tools

Marketo

Salesforce

Job description

About the Team

The B2B Marketing team is responsible for helping businesses understand, adopt, and get value from OpenAI’s products. B2B marketing is a major and growing priority for OpenAI as we scale our work with companies, developers, and institutions around the world.

About the Role

Within B2B Marketing, Demand Generation builds the integrated, full-funnel engine that connects audience insights, content, field and digital experiences, paid media, lifecycle, and sales follow-through to qualified pipeline. We partner closely with Sales, Partnerships, Product Marketing, Communications, Creative, Web, RevOps, Analytics, and regional teams to create a cohesive customer experience and scale what works.

We’re looking for a Senior Lifecycle Strategist to define how prospects and customers move through personalized, signal-driven journeys across the B2B lifecycle. You’ll own lifecycle strategy, audience and journey architecture, testing priorities, and performance recommendations while partnering closely with a Lifecycle Marketing Manager on build and delivery. Initially, the role will focus on prospect nurture, database activation, and sales handoff; over time, it will help expand our lifecycle capabilities across adoption, cross-sell, upsell, retention, and re-engagement.

In this role, you will:

• Define the B2B lifecycle strategy, journey architecture, audience framework, communication principles, and roadmap across prospect and customer stages.

• Design nurture and activation programs that respond to fit, persona, segment, product interest, engagement, intent, and sales status rather than relying on one generic journey.

• Partner with RevOps, Data, Web, SDR, Sales, and Product teams to establish reliable triggers, scoring inputs, routing logic, suppression rules, exits, and service levels.

• Work closely with the Lifecycle Marketing Manager to translate strategy into clear program requirements, content needs, build plans, QA standards, and launch sequencing.

• Own the lifecycle experimentation agenda across segmentation, messaging, cadence, content, channel, triggers, and CTAs, using results to continuously improve journeys.

• Develop the measurement framework across reachable audience, engagement quality, progression, conversion, velocity, pipeline, adoption, retention, and incremental impact.

• Improve database health and addressability by partnering on acquisition quality, enrichment, consent, deliverability, governance, and audience hygiene.

• Build durable lifecycle playbooks and governance that balance personalization, operational simplicity, customer trust, and scalable execution.

You might thrive in this role if you have:

• 10+ years of experience in B2B lifecycle, CRM, retention, growth, or marketing automation, with ownership of complex, multi-stage customer journeys.

• Deep knowledge of segmentation, nurture, personalization, automation, experimentation, deliverability, consent, and lifecycle measurement.

• Hands‑on fluency with enterprise marketing automation and CRM concepts; Marketo and Salesforce experience is valuable, though strong equivalent experience is welcome.

• A track record of improving meaningful business outcomes such as qualified conversion, activation, pipeline, adoption, retention, or expansion.

• Strong systems thinking and the ability to translate customer and business needs into decision rules, journey logic, and clear execution requirements.

• Excellent partnership skills across technical, analytical, creative, sales, and customer-facing teams.

• Comfort working through imperfect data and evolving processes while building toward a more reliable and scalable operating system.

• Genuine curiosity about AI and how it can improve personalization, decisioning, content adaptation, analysis, and operations without compromising customer trust or quality.

Workplace & Location

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. Occasional travel will be required.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general‑purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

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