Lifecycle Operations Manager

SoFi SoFi · Fintech · Cottonwood Heights, UT · Digital Acquisitions

This role is for a Lifecycle Marketing Operations Manager at SoFi, a financial services company. The manager will be responsible for executing marketing initiatives using a campaign management tool, developing templates, segments, and playbooks, and ensuring campaign quality assurance across various channels like email, SMS, and push notifications. They will also produce performance reports and collaborate with data partners and strategists.

What you'd actually do

  1. In collaboration with a Lifecycle Marketing Strategist, execute large and/or complex data-driven marketing initiatives utilizing a campaign management tool; perform activities such as campaign architecture, audience selection, trigger qualification, suppressions, segmentation and arbitration
  2. Develop canvas/asset templates, segments, and playbooks for repetitive or turnkey projects. Train others and own the coding/building, approval process, and deployment of daily, monthly, and ad-hoc content-focused lifecycle marketing campaigns; contribute strategic thought leadership to the team’s campaign testing & optimization strategies
  3. Deliver on lifecycle campaign execution deadlines in various marketing channels (e.g. Email, Push, In-App Messaging, SMS, etc.)
  4. Document and enhance processes, best practices, and FAQs. Develop, enforce, and perform quality control activities to ensure daily campaign deployment completes in a timely manner and the output is accurate and complete
  5. Produce campaign performance reports using analytically derived model outputs to share test outcomes, highlight campaign business impact, and inform future testing strategies

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of HTML coding experience, with hands-on experience building and deploying emails.
  • Experience with marketing automation tools and/or ESPs (e.g. Braze, Pardot, Marketo, Eloqua, etc.)
  • Experience proactively managing own workload and output
  • Strong interest to learn new tools with a natural curiosity
  • Diligent adherence to best practices and QA procedures, with very strong attention to detail
  • Ability to communicate strategies, results, and insights effectively
  • Comfortable working independently, with little or no supervision
  • Strong project management skills

Nice to have

  • Experience working directly with Data Analysts, Software Engineers, and Project Managers
  • Previous experience with Braze and Pardot is a strong plus
  • Understanding of A/B and multivariate testing standards
  • Knowledge of relational databases, real-time event data, data structures and querying language (e.g. select, merge, join, group by, etc)
  • Experience writing SQL statements for data extraction
  • Experience working with real-time web and app event data

What the JD emphasized

  • campaign quality assurance
  • campaign execution deadlines
  • campaign performance reports
  • campaign audience segmentation
  • campaign objectives
  • campaign testing & optimization strategies