Senior Lifecycle Marketing Manager - Adaptive Planning

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About the Team

The Adaptive Marketing team is a high-impact, fast-moving group responsible for shaping how Adaptive shows up in the market—from demand generation and customer engagement to product launches and brand storytelling.
This role sits within Adaptive’s Growth Marketing team, which is responsible for accelerating growth across the entire customer lifecycle—from first value realization through long-term expansion. Operating as a performance-driven, campaign-led team, Growth Marketing blends digital execution, experimentation, and analytics to drive measurable business outcomes. In close partnership with Customer Marketing, this team forms the backbone of Adaptive’s post-sale growth engine: driving adoption, reducing churn, and turning customers into long-term advocates.

About the Role

As Senior Lifecycle Marketing Manager, you will own the programs and campaigns that keep customers engaged, successful, and growing with Adaptive Planning. Your primary mandate is to improve customer retention—across both logos and dollars—and to increase customer satisfaction and NPS.

You’ll achieve this by driving higher product adoption, reinforcing ongoing value, and creating repeatable lifecycle motions that keep Adaptive Planning embedded in customers’ day-to-day workflows. This is a hands-on, execution-heavy role focused on campaign design, digital delivery, and performance optimization—not product positioning or new-logo demand generation.

What You’ll Do

You will build and run lifecycle campaigns day-to-day, turning customer data and signals into high-impact programs that improve adoption and reduce churn, including:

• Design, launch, and optimize onboarding, activation, adoption, and re-engagement campaigns across email, digital, in-product, web, and events

• Partner with Product, Customer Success, and Marketing Operations to identify adoption gaps, churn risk indicators, and key moments of customer value

• Translate product usage data, customer maturity, and behavioral signals into targeted lifecycle plays

• Reinforce best practices, new capabilities, and ongoing value to keep Adaptive Planning embedded in customers’ workflows

• Drive expansion and upsell demand within the install base, aligned to sales and account team motions

• Work closely with Customer Marketing to convert highly engaged users into advocates, references, and storytellers

• Own lifecycle campaign calendars, execution plans, and performance reporting

• Run testing and experimentation on messaging, cadence, channels, and offers

• Track and optimize against lifecycle KPIs, including adoption, engagement, churn indicators, and expansion pipeline

About You

Basic Qualifications:

• 8–12+ years of B2B SaaS marketing experience, with deep expertise in lifecycle, retention, or growth marketing

• Experience operating in global, matrixed organizations as well as high-growth SaaS startup environments

• Proven experience building and running campaign-driven programs that increase adoption and reduce churn

• Strong understanding of post-sale customer journeys and expansion motions

• Experience partnering closely with Customer Success, Product, Sales, and Marketing Operations

• Comfort operating as both a hands-on individual contributor and functional leader

• Strong analytical skills and ability to connect programs to retention, NPS, and revenue outcomes

• A data-informed mindset, with experience defining and tracking program and advocacy performance metrics

• Highly collaborative, entrepreneurial, and comfortable influencing without authority

Preferred Qualifications:

• ​​Hands-on experience with marketing automation and CRM platforms (e.g., Marketo, HubSpot, Salesforce) and comfort building, launching, and optimizing campaigns end-to-end

• Strong segmentation and targeting skills, including experience using product usage data, behavioral signals, and firmographic data to drive lifecycle programs

• Experience designing and managing always-on nurture programs alongside time-bound campaign plays

• Experience working closely with Marketing Operations on campaign infrastructure, scoring, routing, and measurement

Workday Pay Transparency Statement

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below.  Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidate’s compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things. For more information regarding Workday’s comprehensive benefits, please click here.

Primary Location: USA.CA.Pleasanton

 

Primary Location Base Pay Range: $142,400 USD - $213,600 USD

 

Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $114,000 USD - $213,600 USD

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