Novara is hiring a Lifecycle & Email Marketing Manager to build, manage, and optimize the email journeys that support demand creation and conversion. This role will own prospect lifecycle strategy, email campaign execution, nurture programs, re-engagement, testing, deliverability, and channel performance.
The Lifecycle & Email Marketing Manager will translate integrated campaign priorities into thoughtful communication journeys for different audiences and stages of the buying process. This person will be hands-on in Marketo or a comparable marketing automation platform, while partnering with Marketing Operations on system administration, routing, data governance, and technical architecture.
Responsibilities:
- Develop the prospect lifecycle and email strategy in partnership with the Director of Demand Generation.
- Create communication plans for key audience stages, including new prospects, engaged buyers, marketing-qualified leads, event and webinar participants, long-cycle buyers, stalled prospects, and closed-lost opportunities.
- Manage the master email calendar, send volume, audience prioritization, contact frequency, and channel cadence.
- Balance campaign priorities, buyer experience, engagement, and list health across the full email program.
- Identify gaps in the prospect journey and recommend new nurture, re-engagement, or conversion programs. Journey design and campaign execution
- Build and launch automated email journeys, nurture programs, follow-up sequences, and triggered communications.
- Translate integrated campaign briefs into email plans that define audience, message sequence, timing, personalization, handoff, and measurement.
- Manage day-to-day email production, including content coordination, build, responsive formatting, personalization, testing, approvals, scheduling, and quality assurance.
- Develop or edit email copy and calls to action in partnership with campaign, content, and Product Marketing stakeholders.
- Create scalable templates and repeatable program structures that increase speed without sacrificing quality or relevance. Audience segmentation and personalization
- Develop audience and contact strategies based on persona, industry, account tier, lifecycle stage, engagement, intent, product interest, and prior campaign history.
- Define segmentation, personalization, suppression, and eligibility requirements for email programs.
- Partner with Marketing Operations on audience implementation, data availability, field logic, consent, and governance.
- Use dynamic content and modular messaging to make communications more relevant without creating unsustainable production complexity.
- Monitor audience overlap and contact pressure to protect the buyer experience and reduce fatigue. Nurture and re-engagement programs
- Own always-on and campaign-specific nurture programs that help prospects progress from initial engagement to sales readiness.
- Build follow-up journeys for webinars, events, content engagement, digital behavior, and high-intent actions.
- Develop re-engagement programs for inactive leads, stalled accounts, previous high-intent prospects, and closed-lost opportunities.
- Partner with the Senior Manager, Integrated Demand Generation & Account-Based Marketing to create email journeys for priority verticals and account audiences.
- Coordinate with Customer Marketing when a communication may affect existing customers, advocates, or former champions. Testing, optimization, and deliverability
- Develop an ongoing A/B and multivariate testing roadmap across subject lines, send times, message structure, calls to action, creative, frequency, and journey design.
- Monitor deliverability, inbox placement, bounce rates, unsubscribe rates, spam complaints, engagement, and list health.
- Identify performance issues and implement improvements to content, cadence, segmentation, personalization, or technical setup.
- Document test findings and turn them into practical email standards and future program recommendations.
- Stay current on email best practices, privacy requirements, consent, accessibility, and anti-spam regulations. Measurement and insights
- Monitor email and lifecycle performance across engagement, conversion, progression, sales handoff, and program contribution.
- Build clear recurring summaries that explain what changed, why it matters, and what should happen next.
- Partner with Revenue Operations and Marketing Operations on reporting, attribution, data quality, and measurement requirements.
- Use campaign and audience insights to improve future nurture design and advise the broader Demand Generation team.
- Recommend process improvements that increase execution efficiency, quality, and buyer relevance.
How Success is Measured:
- Email- and lifecycle-sourced and influenced pipeline, and overall channel health.
- MQL-to-SQO conversion and opportunity progression driven by nurture and re-engagement journeys.
- Quality, reliability, and timeliness of email campaign execution.
- Effectiveness of audience segmentation, personalization, and contact strategy.
- Deliverability, list health, consent compliance, and reduction of unnecessary audience fatigue.
- Testing velocity and the practical value of documented learnings.
- Ability to turn integrated campaign priorities into cohesive lifecycle experiences that measurably advance pipeline.
Knowledge, Experience, Requirements:
- 4 or more years of B2B email, lifecycle, nurture, or marketing automation experience, with direct ownership of campaigns and journeys.
- Hands-on experience building automated programs in Marketo or another major marketing automation platform.
- Demonstrated success developing nurture, re-engagement, lead-conversion, segmentation, or personalization programs.
- Strong knowledge of email production, responsive design, quality assurance, testing methodologies, deliverability, list management, and contact strategy.
- Experience using analytics to evaluate campaign performance and make practical optimization recommendations.
- Strong writing and editing skills, with an understanding of how message sequence and calls to action influence buyer behavior.
- Excellent project-management skills and the ability to coordinate multiple sends, campaigns, and stakeholder inputs.
- Ability to work independently while collaborating closely across a distributed marketing and go-to-market organization.
Preferred Experience:
- Advanced hands-on experience with Marketo, including smart campaigns, programs, tokens, dynamic content, segmentation, and engagement programs.
- Working knowledge of Salesforce and the relationship between CRM data, marketing automation, campaigns, and sales handoff.
- Experience with B2B SaaS, multi-stakeholder buying journeys, and longer sales cycles.
- Experience supporting account-based marketing, vertical campaigns, webinars, events, and intent-driven follow-up.
- Basic HTML and CSS knowledge for email troubleshooting and template refinement.
- Experience with deliverability tools, data-enrichment platforms, or account-intelligence platforms such as 6Sense.
- Knowledge of CAN-SPAM, consent management, accessibility, and evolving privacy requirements.
- Experience using AI tools to improve audience research, content variation, quality assurance, testing, or analysis.
Compensation:
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