Head of Lifecycle Marketing, Quizlet

$142-210k

+ Company stock options

Figma
Braze
Expert level
Denver
Los Angeles
San Francisco Bay Area
Quizlet

Learning tools for students and teachers

Job no longer available

Quizlet

Learning tools for students and teachers

201-500 employees

B2CArtificial IntelligenceEducationLearningSaaS

Job no longer available

$142-210k

+ Company stock options

Figma
Braze
Expert level
Denver
Los Angeles
San Francisco Bay Area

201-500 employees

B2CArtificial IntelligenceEducationLearningSaaS

Company mission

Quizlet's mission is to give every student the tools and confidence to succeed, no matter their motivation or what they’re striving to achieve.

Role

Who you are

  • As an excellent communicator, you will be confident in sharing your learnings and proposals in well-synthesized decks and documents
  • You will thrive in this role if you can break down your thinking, solicit direct feedback, and bring stakeholders along for the ride
  • We’re looking for a candidate who can make decisions quickly and who can interpret and share results in a way that helps move our overall business understanding forward
  • Last but not least, you’ll be someone who can inspire and mentor your team members to grow their technical and strategic expertise in lifecycle marketing
  • 10+ years of experience in lifecycle or digital marketing, with at least 3 years in a team leadership role
  • Deep understanding of marketing automation tools and CRM systems
  • Proven track record of designing and executing successful lifecycle marketing strategies. You’ll be someone who can take a 50,000 foot view, think through structural implications, and sweat the details of design, message, and execution
  • Strong analytical skills, with experience in data analysis and customer segmentation
  • Strong track record of A/B testing for optimization and holdout reporting to measure campaign and channel effectiveness
  • Creative thinker with a customer-centric mindset
  • Good concise consumer copywriting skills
  • Experience building complex lifecycle campaign canvases and ability to coach and recommend iterations and new tests to drive efficiencies and transferrable learnings
  • Excellent leadership and team management abilities, with a passion for mentoring and developing talent
  • A high degree of attention to detail, coupled with the soft skills to deliver effective feedback to team members
  • Outstanding communication and collaboration skills, capable of working effectively across different teams and departments
  • History of influencing cross functionally to enable your team with well connected data library and strategy
  • Excellent organizational and prioritization skills and the ability to implement process improvements

Desirable

  • Background using Braze for marketing automation
  • Familiarity with Liquid logic
  • Familiarity with the ed tech landscape and/or Gen Z consumers
  • Experience working within a freemium consumer subscriptions business
  • Experience driving onsite marketing campaigns and building new onsite channels
  • Experience doing lifecycle for a global company including localization considerations
  • Lightweight design skills in Figma to mock up ideas

What the job involves

  • Quizlet’s overall marketing team is responsible for driving brand awareness, user engagement, subscription, and ads growth
  • The Head of Lifecycle role will lead the Lifecycle Marketing team, which is focused on driving customer engagement and retention via many of our owned channels
  • The Lifecycle team works cross-functionally with product marketing, brand, product, and engineering teams
  • This role reports to the Director of Product & Lifecycle Marketing
  • As the Head of Lifecycle Marketing, you will be responsible for growing activation, engagement, retention, and subscriptions via our Braze-run channels
  • You will lead the Lifecycle Marketing team in managing our triggered and seasonal ad hoc programs in service of driving incremental sessions and monthly active users
  • You will help shape the ways campaigns come to life with personalized data, timely targeting, and engaging copy and creative
  • Your strategic mindset and deep understanding of customer behavior will be instrumental in helping you evaluate opportunities and prioritize incoming tickets
  • You’ll be confident using data to shape campaign structures and strategies as well as in analyzing campaign and channel effectiveness
  • From a channel perspective, you’ll help us establish strong performance baselines and best practices across email, push, SMS, and many onsite channels
  • You’ll collaborate with product, data science, and engineering team members across the company to unlock new triggered and ad hoc campaign opportunities and experiences
  • As you test and learn, you’ll help us establish playbooks for scaling the impact of winning initiatives
  • Develop and implement comprehensive lifecycle marketing strategies that align with the company’s growth objectives, enhancing customer engagement
  • Lead cross-functional initiatives to optimize the customer journey, from sign up and activation through product adoption, retention, and subscription
  • Drive best-in-class campaign analysis, partnering with our analytics team to ensure we can optimize campaigns to deliver strong incremental results
  • Use data analytics to gain insights into customer behavior and preferences, leveraging these insights to tailor marketing efforts and improve campaign effectiveness
  • Oversee the management of all lifecycle marketing channels, including email, SMS, push notifications, and in-app messages, ensuring user-friendly, cohesive, and personalized customer communication
  • Collaborate with product marketing, brand, product, and engineer teams to ensure marketing strategies are integrated and supportive of overall business goals
  • Stay ahead of industry trends and advancements in lifecycle marketing technologies and practices, continuously innovating and evaluating new channels and capabilities with analytical test-and-learn approaches
  • Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing marketing team, fostering a culture of excellence, creativity, and continuous improvement

Otta's take

Theo Margolius headshot

Theo Margolius

COO of Otta

Quizlet has built a large-scale business around simple-to-share and simple-to-use products. Its free flashcard maker helps students prepare for exams. Those insights fuel Quizlet Plus, the startup’s subscription product that charges an annual fee for access to more features, including tutoring services.

After a long period of runaway growth, during which the company achieved a $1 billion valuation, Quizlet has been somewhat buffered by the general market downturn affecting the tech sector in 2022, which hit EdTech particularly heavily. It has responded by a shakeup of its leadership team, appointing AirBnB and Starship Technologies veteran Lex Bayer.

With an entrepreneurial management team and a strong user base of over 60 million students and teachers, Quizlet seems likely to weather the current economic situation and resume its growth in the near future.

Insights

Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

75% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

May 2020

$30m

SERIES C

Feb 2018

$20m

SERIES B

Total funding: $62m

Company benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental, vision and disability plans for you and your family. 100% paid premiums for employees, 75% for dependents
  • 20 days of PTO, 10 paid holidays, and 5 volunteer days
  • Generous family leave plan
  • $1,000 stipend each year for professional development
  • $100/month reimbursement towards wellness, plus memberships to physical & mental health resources
  • Stock options
  • 401k match
  • Free lunch and dinner, healthy snacks & drinks daily
  • Commuter Benefits - we'll help cover 50% of your public commuter & parking costs, plus pre-tax FSA.

Company values

  • Help students learn
  • Be curious
  • Move with purpose
  • Be an owner
  • Be tough on ideas

Company HQ

China Basin, San Francisco, CA

Founders

Dave Margulius

(Board Member)

Currently Advisor at Law Students for Climate Accountability. Previously on the Board of Directors at Churchill Club and Founder at Enterprise Insight.

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