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Braze

Customer engagement platform for cross-channel messaging

Director – Lifecycle Marketing

Growth MarketingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeChicago, IL, USA$170k - $195.5k /yr

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 8 years of experience in Lifecycle Marketing, Customer Marketing, CRM Marketing, Growth Marketing, or related fields, including experience building and leading high-performing teams.
  • Proven experience developing lifecycle strategies and programs that drive measurable outcomes across prospect and customer audiences, ideally within a global B2B SaaS organization.
  • Strong understanding of SaaS customer journeys, including onboarding, activation, product adoption, engagement, retention, and expansion, and experience translating product capabilities into customer value.
  • Experience developing product adoption and engagement programs in partnership with Product, Product Marketing, and Customer Success teams; familiarity with AI-powered products and evolving SaaS product portfolios is highly desirable.
  • Deep expertise in audience segmentation, personalization, journey orchestration, experimentation, and lifecycle analytics, with the ability to translate complex data into actionable strategies.
  • Experience with customer engagement and marketing automation platforms, including Braze, Marketo, or similar technologies, and a strong understanding of email, in-product messaging, SMS, and other lifecycle channels.
  • Demonstrated ability to establish measurement frameworks, define meaningful key performance indicators, and communicate lifecycle marketing’s contribution to pipeline, customer value, retention, and business growth.
  • Strong executive communication skills and ability to articulate strategy, influence senior stakeholders, and align cross-functional teams around shared priorities.
  • Practical experience leveraging AI-powered marketing tools and automation to improve personalization, experimentation, operational efficiency, and team productivity.

Responsibilities

  • Define and lead lifecycle marketing strategy across prospect and customer audiences, establishing a vision, priorities, and roadmap that connect engagement to measurable business outcomes.
  • Build, lead, and develop a high-performing Lifecycle Marketing team; hire and onboard talent, establish ownership and operating rhythms, and foster strategic thinking, innovation, accountability, and continuous growth.
  • Own and optimize lifecycle programs spanning prospect nurturing, customer onboarding, product activation, adoption, engagement, and expansion.
  • Develop and scale product adoption strategies that help customers discover, activate, and realize value from Braze’s product portfolio, with emphasis on adopting new AI capabilities and connecting product innovation to customer outcomes.
  • Partner with Product, Product Marketing, Customer Success, and Revenue teams to identify adoption barriers and customer needs, then develop lifecycle programs that accelerate time-to-value, deepen engagement, and contribute to retention and expansion.
  • Lead audience strategies, segmentation frameworks, and personalized customer journeys using behavioral, account-level, and product usage data.
  • Establish lifecycle measurement connecting program performance to prospect conversion, pipeline contribution, product adoption, customer engagement, retention, and expansion influence; translate insights into recommendations and narratives for senior leadership.
  • Build an experimentation and continuous-optimization culture, developing testing roadmaps to improve lifecycle performance across audiences, journeys, and channels.
  • Lead Braze-at-Braze initiatives, explore applications of Braze’s platform, and partner with Product and Product Marketing to demonstrate engagement practices and inform product innovation.
  • Champion adoption of AI and emerging technologies in Lifecycle Marketing to improve personalization, accelerate experimentation, increase operational efficiency, and develop new approaches to customer engagement.
  • Collaborate with Integrated Campaigns, Regional Marketing, and Demand Generation teams on prospect nurture strategies that improve engagement, conversion, and pipeline progression while aligning with go-to-market priorities.
  • Partner with Customer Advocacy and Community teams to coordinate customer experiences that deepen engagement and reinforce the value customers realize from Braze.
  • Establish scalable processes, systems, and cross-functional working practices that help the team execute, prioritize high-impact initiatives, and evolve its capabilities as the business grows.

Desired Qualifications

  • Familiarity with AI-powered products and evolving SaaS product portfolios.

About the Company

Braze

Customer engagement platform for cross-channel messaging

Braze is a customer engagement platform that helps brands build ongoing relationships with customers by coordinating real-time, cross-channel messages across email, push, in-app, SMS, and more. It collects data from any source, segments audiences, and orchestrates customer journeys so the right message reaches the right person at the right time. It also uses AI-powered experimentation and optimization to test and improve campaigns. Braze differentiates itself with a data-driven, multi-channel approach and a strong emphasis on journey orchestration and real-time engagement, serving a wide range of clients from small businesses to large enterprises and operating globally. Its goal is to enable brands to deliver relevant, personalized experiences at scale, across channels, to drive lasting customer relationships.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
2011

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