Full-Time

Senior Manager

Lifecycle Marketing

Posted on 10/31/2025

Wattpad

Wattpad

1,001-5,000 employees

Global platform connecting readers and writers

Compensation Overview

$115k - $140k/yr

+ Base Salary

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Hybrid

Category
Growth & Marketing (1)
Requirements
  • 8+ years in marketing, with at least 5 years focused on lifecycle marketing, CRM, or retention.
  • Proven hands-on expertise with marketing automation tools, CDPs, ESPs, and CRM systems.
  • Proven success scaling lifecycle strategies in digital media, entertainment, or subscription-based businesses.
  • Strategic thinker who can also execute and drive results.
  • Strong analytical mindset; skilled at using customer insights and behavioral data to drive decision-making.
  • Understanding of user segmentation, behavioral targeting, and marketing automation platforms.
  • Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills in matrixed organizations.
Responsibilities
  • Build and own the lifecycle marketing strategy to maximize engagement, retention, and long-term user value.
  • Develop data-driven segmentation, targeting, and personalization strategies that deepen user relationships and fuel growth.
  • Champion a test-and-learn approach, using experimentation to optimize messaging, cadence, and creative across channels.
  • Evaluate lifecycle performance, track KPIs, and make recommendations for maximum business impact.
  • Lead the customer journey design and implementation, from onboarding flows to win-back campaigns.
  • Own and optimize communications across email, push, in-app messaging, and SMS.
  • Partner with Product and Data teams to implement personalized and automated programs at scale.
  • Drive engagement campaigns that promote content discovery, upsell opportunities, and fandom-building initiatives.
  • Implement processes that streamline campaign execution and cross-functional collaboration.
  • Support implementation and use of tools and infrastructure (e.g., CDP, marketing automation) that enable targeting, tracking, and reporting across the entire marketing funnel.
  • Work closely with Creative on compelling campaign assets.
  • Collaborate with Product and Operations to enhance in-app lifecycle touchpoints.
  • Align with Analytics and Data teams to refine segmentation, reporting, and dashboards.
Desired Qualifications
  • MBA or equivalent advanced degree.
  • Prior hands-on experience using Braze for email or campaign deployment.
  • Knowledge of SMS and Mobile channels like Push/In-App/Embedded Messaging
  • Experience in entertainment, comics, gaming, or fan-driven communities.

Wattpad connects a global community of 90 million readers and writers on a social storytelling platform. Users create, share, and discover stories, building a network around serialized and diverse narratives. The platform monetizes through ads, premium subscriptions, and content monetization, including partnerships with entertainment companies to adapt popular stories into books, movies, and TV series via Wattpad Studios. Wattpad Books publishes popular platform stories as physical books worldwide. Unlike many platforms, Wattpad combines user-generated storytelling with media adaptation and traditional publishing, creating multiple revenue streams while expanding audience reach. Its goal is to give diverse voices a path from digital storytelling to broader audiences through publishing and adaptation.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

Acquired

Total Funding

$717.8M

Headquarters

Toronto, Canada

Founded

2006

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • New search system launches soon, enhancing discovery for 90 million users.
  • Aron Levitz promoted co-president, retaining Wattpad WEBTOON Studios oversight.
  • WEBTOON Studios develops 'Apocalyptic Horseplay' animated series from popular webtoon.

What critics are saying

  • WEBTOON prioritizes webcomics, diverting resources from Wattpad's prose in 6-12 months.
  • TikTok BookTok siphons Gen Z, slashing 26 billion monthly engagement minutes in 6-12 months.
  • Radish Fiction steals Tap users in multilingual short-form markets within 12-18 months.

What makes Wattpad unique

  • Wattpad connects 90 million users sharing 665 million romance stories monthly.
  • Wattpad Studios adapts user stories into films, TV, and Wattpad Books since 2019.
  • Tap by Wattpad delivers short chat-based stories in over a dozen languages.

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Benefits

Competitive salary

Full health benefits

Career development & mentorship opportunities

RRSP matching

Generous parental leave

Flexible hours

Company News

Good e-Reader
Jun 19th, 2025
Wattpad is launching a new search and discovery system soon

Wattpad is launching a new search and discovery system soon.

BetaKit
Nov 8th, 2024
Aron Levitz named co-president of Wattpad as #CDNtech executive turnover continues through the fall

In 2019, Wattpad Studios expanded into publishing with the launch of Wattpad Books, which brought Wattpad's online novels to bookshelves in North America.

BetaKit
Nov 8th, 2024
Aron Levitz Named Co-President Of Wattpad As #Cdntech Executive Turnover Continues Through The Fall

Chexy, PureFacts, Carbon Upcycling and more are among the latest to shake up their C-suites

C21 Media Limited
Nov 8th, 2024
Aron Levitz named co-president of story platform Wattpad, will retain studio oversight

Nam was appointed as president of Wattpad on an interim basis in 2022, following the departure of Jeanne Lam, and in April was made president on a permanent basis.

World Screen
Nov 8th, 2024
Wattpad Elevates Aron Levitz

Following Wattpad's acquisition by WEBTOON in 2021, Levitz was named president of Wattpad WEBTOON Studios, an integrated studio and publishing business that has introduced webcomics and webnovels to new entertainment audiences around the world.

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