Lifecycle Marketing Manager
Cape Town - South Africa
Job Summary
Position : Lifecycle Email Marketing Manager
Work Hours (Client) : Monday to Friday 9am till 5pm Central Time
Pay Range : $2000 to $2500/ month (varies based on skill set and experience level)
Location of Search : South Africa
Work Location : Remote
Company Overview:
Our client is a leading web-based time tracking and scheduling software designed to streamline workforce management for businesses of all sizes.
Role Overview:
As the Lifecycle Email Marketing Manager you will be responsible for developing executing and optimizing end-to-end email campaigns to drive customer retention engagement and lifecycle growth.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Build and launch lifecycle emails in HubSpot for trials new customers upgrades at-risk customers and win-back.
- Write and update email copy including industry versions for construction restaurants and retail healthcare and a general default.
- Build and maintain lists and segments by plan industry company size and product usage.
- Test constantly: keep a ranked list of tests (subject lines preview text copy timing audience) run each one with a clear measure and roll out what wins.
- Check every email and enrollment before it goes live: right people right sender right links. If something could reach the wrong customers stop and check with the Marketing Manager first.
- Keep a current register of live emails and workflows and retire dead emails once theyre signed off.
- Work with the sales and retention reps on who sends what.
- Send a weekly written report: what shipped what you tested the results and whats next.
What Success Looks Like
- Email results improve month over month: opens clicks replies and conversions.
- Every test ends with a written result and a decision.
- Emails ship on schedule with no wrong-audience sends.
- Shared with the team: more trials turning into paying customers better activation in the first 7-14 days more plan upgrades and lower churn.
Minimum Qualifications:
Language requirement: Excellent English written and communication skills
Experience: 4 years experience in SaaS lifecycle or email marketing.
- Deep hands-on experience with HubSpot workflows lists and segmentation.
- A self-starter who works well without a lot of direction and finishes what they start.
- A track record of testing emails and improving results. Bring an example including one that didnt work.
- Proven experience managing lifecycle email marketing campaigns and automated user journeys.
- Careful and detail-minded. You check audiences and data before you switch anything on.
- Clear plain writing in your own words.
- A track record of staying in roles long enough to see year-over-year results.
Bonus Experience
- Product-led SaaS or free-trial funnels.
- Marketing to SMBs or operational industries (construction field services healthcare).
- GA4 Amplitude or similar analytics.