Startup Program & Experience Lead

Notion Notion · Enterprise · San Francisco, CA · Marketing

This role focuses on managing and improving the startup customer journey within Notion, specifically during the onboarding and trial phases. The Lead will build and manage scalable programs, create educational experiences, identify and address friction points, and analyze program performance to drive activation, engagement, conversion, and retention. The role requires strong program management, customer empathy, and cross-functional collaboration skills, with a data-oriented mindset. While not requiring deep AI expertise, the role encourages the use of AI tools to enhance work.

What you'd actually do

  1. Improve startup activation, engagement, conversion and retention across the regional startup funnel.
  2. Build and manage scalable onboarding and lifecycle programs for startup customers.
  3. Create startup-focused educational, onboarding and engagement experiences that help customers realize value quickly.
  4. Identify friction points and improve the startup customer journey.
  5. Support the execution of startup initiatives, campaigns, events and ecosystem programs across the region.

Skills

Required

  • Experience in program management, customer experience, customer success, growth, operations or startup-focused roles.
  • Strong organizational and project management skills.
  • Ability to manage multiple initiatives and priorities in fast-moving environments.
  • Strong customer empathy and operational mindset.
  • Comfortable working cross-functionally across Product, Marketing, Partnerships and Customer Success teams.
  • Data-oriented mindset with ability to identify patterns, friction points and improvement opportunities.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to have

  • Experience working with startups or startup ecosystems.
  • Experience with onboarding, lifecycle or customer engagement programs.
  • Familiarity with product-led growth environments.
  • Experience building scalable operational processes or customer programs.
  • Passion for AI, productivity tools and the future of work.

What the JD emphasized

  • startup customer journey
  • onboarding and trial experience
  • startup activation, engagement, conversion and retention
  • scalable startup programs
  • onboarding experiences
  • engagement initiatives
  • customer needs
  • operational excellence
  • friction points
  • startup customer journey
  • program performance
  • customer engagement
  • operational metrics
  • automated scorecard
  • high-touch customer experience