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KOHO

Prepaid Visa cards with budgeting app

Director Lifecycle & Organic Growth

Growth MarketingPosted on Nov 9
Full-timeRemote in CanadaCA$175k - CA$210k /yr

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 10 years of experience in lifecycle, customer relationship management, or retention marketing at a business-to-consumer consumer technology, fintech, or subscription business, including at least 4 years leading managers.
  • A track record of improving business metrics through owned channels, supported by incrementality evidence such as holdouts or control groups rather than engagement rates alone.
  • Hands-on fluency with a modern customer engagement platform, preferably Braze, including journey architecture, segmentation, Liquid personalization, and data integration through a customer data platform such as Segment.
  • Working knowledge of organic growth, including search engine optimization and technical search engine optimization fundamentals, app store optimization, content strategy, and changes in discovery through AI-powered search.
  • Analytical judgment, comfort using SQL or working closely with Data, and the ability to assess whether reported numbers are reliable.
  • Experience in a regulated industry where marketing undergoes legal and compliance review, such as financial services, insurance, health, or telecommunications.
  • Experience creating operating playbooks.
  • Experience communicating clearly and concisely with executives and raising bad news early.
  • A record as a people manager, supported by team retention and engagement.
  • Current use of artificial intelligence in day-to-day work.
  • Experience with Canadian financial services regulation and the Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation.
  • Experience with predictive or machine-learning-driven personalization, such as churn, propensity, or send-time personalization.

Responsibilities

  • Own the strategy, roadmap, and targets for Lifecycle and Organic Growth, and be accountable for registrations, activation, engagement, retention, and contribution margin.
  • Lead lifecycle programs across the customer journey, including onboarding, activation, cross-sell and upsell, reactivation, retention, and servicing.
  • Set direction for organic acquisition across koho.ca, search engine optimization, generative engine optimization, app store optimization, and content, alongside the senior domain lead responsible for day-to-day execution.
  • Bring Lifecycle-grade measurement to Organic Growth through clear definitions, reproducible metrics, and reporting that connects organic presence to registrations and activation.
  • Connect owned channels with Paid, Affiliates, and Product so the customer journey works end to end.
  • Steward the global control group and incrementality program, ensuring reported results are causal and robust.
  • Own the experimentation roadmap, including A/B tests, holdouts, and multivariate journeys, and turn results into decisions.
  • Present performance and strategy to the executive team in regular business reviews.
  • Own the Lifecycle operating model, including intake, prioritization, specifications, peer quality assurance, legal review tiering, launch, and post-launch measurement.
  • Partner with Legal and Compliance to ensure customer communications are accurate, compliant, and auditable in English and French.
  • Own incident response and business continuity for customer messaging, including fallback sending and escalation paths.
  • Own website governance, including publishing permissions, review of changes, and protections for releases.
  • Own the owned-channel marketing technology stack and its vendors, with Braze as the core platform, including contracts, renewals, and platform health.
  • Lead, develop, and retain a team of senior managers and specialists, and hire as the team grows.
  • Maintain a clear career ladder and support the team's engagement and development.

Desired Qualifications

  • Professional working proficiency in French.
  • Experience with a headless content management system such as Sanity and on-site experimentation.
  • Braze is strongly preferred.

About the Company

KOHO

Prepaid Visa cards with budgeting app

KOHO provides a modern alternative to traditional banking in Canada through a prepaid Visa card and a mobile app. It targets individuals who want simple, transparent money management with fewer fees. Users load funds onto a prepaid card, spend with cash back on purchases, and can access features like credit-building services and early payroll. The app shows spending and balances in real time, helping users manage money without a traditional bank account. KOHO makes money mainly from merchant interchange fees when users pay with the card and from optional premium services, while offering a free base product. Unlike typical banks or some fintechs, KOHO emphasizes a free-to-use app and card with clear fees and control over finances.

Company size
201-500
Company stage
Series E
Total funding
$565.6M
Headquarters
Toronto, Canada
Founded
2014

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