This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, which manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Head of Lifecycle & Customer Experience based in Canada. We are looking for a senior lifecycle and customer experience leader to own the entire customer journey beyond the first purchase across two direct-to-consumer brands. In this high-impact role, you will shape subscription strategy, lifecycle marketing, post-purchase engagement, and customer support operations. Your mission will be to reduce churn, increase customer lifetime value, and build experiences that turn first-time buyers into loyal customers. You will combine strategic leadership with hands-on execution, using customer insights, data, testing, and automation to drive measurable results. Working closely with the founder and senior leadership team, you will help scale a fast-growing business toward its next stage of growth. This is a fully remote opportunity within a lean, ambitious, and rapid-paced environment where ownership, speed, and continuous improvement are highly valued. Accountabilities
- Lead the subscription programs across both brands, overseeing offers, bundles, subscription cadence, customer portals, and cancellation journeys.
- Develop and test retention initiatives, including save offers, skip, swap and pause options, and win-back campaigns to reduce churn and improve subscriber retention.
- Own email and SMS marketing strategy, manage the retention agency, oversee campaign calendars and lifecycle flows, and maintain strong list health and deliverability.
- Build and optimize the complete customer lifecycle, including welcome, post-purchase, replenishment, cross-sell, win-back, loyalty, and VIP journeys.
- Improve the post-purchase experience by analyzing cancellation reasons, customer reviews, surveys,



and support interactions, then coordinating solutions with relevant teams.
- Lead the customer experience function, manage the Customer Experience Manager, establish customer service policies, and monitor key metrics such as CSAT, response times, AI resolution rate, refunds, and chargebacks.
- Track subscription performance, monthly recurring revenue, churn, save rates, repeat purchase rates, cohort retention, and customer lifetime value by brand and channel.
- Establish a consistent testing and optimization process, ensuring that retention initiatives are measured, documented, and improved continuously.
- Collaborate with growth and brand leadership on promotional campaigns, product launches, and initiatives that increase subscription adoption and customer engagement.
- Lead regular retention performance reviews, identify the most important growth opportunities, and develop standard operating procedures to ensure sustainable execution.

Requirements:
- 5-6+ years of experience in retention or lifecycle marketing within direct-to-consumer businesses.
- Essential: previous experience leading retention for a subscription-based brand generating at least $30-50M in annual revenue, ideally at nine-figure scale.
- Strong expertise in subscription growth, churn reduction, save strategies, cohort analysis, and monthly recurring revenue.




- Proven ability to develop and manage email and SMS programs using Klaviyo or a comparable lifecycle marketing platform.
- Hands-on experience with Loop or a similar subscription management platform.
- Demonstrated leadership experience managing retention and customer experience teams, as well as external agencies.
- Strong analytical capabilities, with the ability to interpret customer, cohort, churn, and lifetime value data and translate insights into measurable improvements.
- Experience designing, running, and evaluating structured tests across subscription offers, lifecycle flows, and retention strategies.
- Strong commercial judgment and an understanding of profitability, margins, and the financial impact of discounts and retention incentives.
- Customer-focused mindset, with the ability to identify the underlying reasons customers stay, disengage, or cancel.
- Excellent communication skills and fluency in English.
- Comfortable working in a fully remote, fast-paced environment with significant ownership, accountability, and autonomy.
- Strong alignment with a culture of continuous improvement, speed, resourcefulness, data-driven decision-making, and high performance.
- Motivated to work closely with the founder and play a meaningful role in scaling a growing business.

Benefits:
- Fully remote position, open to candidates based outside the United States.
- Annual salary of USD $115,000-$145,000, depending on experience and expertise.
- Performance bonus of 15-20% of base salary after the trial period.
- Direct collaboration with the founder and senior leadership team.
- Significant ownership of lifecycle marketing, retention, and customer experience strategy across two brands.
- Opportunity to make a measurable impact on the growth of a

📌 Head of Lifecycle (Canada)
🏢 Jobgether
📍 Canada