Senior Lifecycle Marketing Manager

Payhawk
Amsterdam, Netherlands
On-site

Who this role is best for

Geared toward B2B SaaS marketing professionals comfortable with building lifecycle programs from zero, with a preference for candidates who thrive in high-performance teams and have experience in cross-functional collaboration in a global setting.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with a background in creating lifecycle marketing programs in B2B SaaS environments
    — “Senior lifecycle marketing experience in B2B SaaS, with hands-on experience building nurture, onboarding, retention or win-back programmes from scratch”
  • Individuals who are used to working independently with no existing team or playbook to rely on
    — “Comfort being the first and only person in the role, building with no existing playbook or team to inherit”
  • Candidates who have experience managing email campaigns across global regions and pipelines
    — “Align campaigns with each region’s pipeline and retention targets, working directly with regional marketing leads”

Things to consider

  • This role requires building a new function within a fast-growing company, which may involve high visibility and pressure to deliver quickly
    — “As Payhawk’s first lifecycle marketing hire, you will build email from zero into a channel for nurturing prospects and retaining customers”
  • The role involves direct ownership of customer email communications, which may demand high attention to detail and alignment with product and support teams
    — “Own all external customer email communications. Support and Product Marketing will still start their own service and product updates, and you will manage the overall flow and the sending.”

How to stand out

  • Demonstrate expertise in marketing automation platforms with a focus on full-stack capabilities
    — “Deep, hands-on expertise with a marketing automation platform end to end, covering segmentation, journey and workflow building, and reporting”
  • Showcase a track record of using retention metrics like NRR and GRR to drive campaign strategy
    — “A track record of using retention and expansion metrics (NRR, GRR, churn) to guide campaign strategy”
  • Emphasize cross-functional collaboration experience with teams like ABM, partnerships, and marketing ops
    — “Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, as you will work closely with regional marketing, ABM, partnerships and marketing operations”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Team

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • Build and run renewal and retention campaigns
  • Launch and manage lead-nurture tracks
  • Expand into upsell and expansion campaigns
Typical background
Senior lifecycle marketing experience in B2B SaaS

Skills & requirements

Required

Lifecycle MarketingEmail MarketingMarketing AutomationCross-functional CollaborationRetention And Expansion Metrics

Preferred

Multiple Lifecycle Marketing Builds

Stack & domain

Lifecycle Marketing ExperienceMarketing Automation PlatformSegmentationJourney And Workflow BuildingReportingTemplate DesignControl EngineeringMachine LearningMlopsAWS IotGreengrassMender For Managing Device FleetsWorking Across Multiple Cloud EnvironmentsManaging Ci/cd Environments Using Github ActionsBuilding Production Artefacts Using Tools Such As DockerFunctional Programming LanguagesBuilding Or Working With More Complex Ai-enabled WorkflowsStrong Cross-functional Collaboration SkillsComfortable Working In A Fast-moving, Ambiguous EnvironmentAi-powered Spend ManagementCorporate CardsExpense ManagementProcurementAccounts PayableFinance TeamsAICloud Computing

About the role

Original posting from Payhawk via Greenhouse

Company Mission

Payhawk is one AI-powered spend management platform for scaling businesses — corporate cards, expense management, procurement, and accounts payable, unified in one place. We serve finance teams across 32+ countries, cutting month-end close time and reconciling 99.7% of transactions with zero manual touch. AI runs through the platform as core infrastructure, not a bolted-on feature — and we hire the top 1% of talent in every function to keep building it that way.

Why Payhawk

Payhawk, where the bold builders make an impact.

We're not a family, we're a high-performance team — and that's deliberate. We debate, ideate, and push each other to be better, because the best ideas come from direct feedback. We've already made history as Bulgaria's first unicorn, but the ambition doesn't stop there: if you want to grow fast - own it; do not wait for it.

Give: Honest opinions, real ownership, a focus on outcomes.

Get: A front-row seat to a market leader in one of the fastest-moving industries.

The role, in one line

As Payhawk’s first lifecycle marketing hire, you will build email from zero into a channel for nurturing prospects and retaining customers. This is a senior individual-contributor role reporting to the VP Growth Marketing, with plans to build a team within 12 to 18 months.

What you will own

Build and run renewal and retention campaigns that protect and grow our existing customer base.

Launch and manage lead-nurture tracks for prospects who are not yet sales-ready.

Launch and manage opportunity-nurture tracks that expand the scope of deals and increase win rates.

Expand into upsell and expansion campaigns, win-back and reactivation flows, and customer advocacy programmes (case studies, referrals and NPS).

Align campaigns with each region’s pipeline and retention targets, working directly with regional marketing leads.

Partner with marketing operations so that every campaign is tracked and reported accurately.

Own all external customer email communications. Support and Product Marketing will still start their own service and product updates, and you will manage the overall flow and the sending.

What you will need

Must-have

Senior lifecycle marketing experience in B2B SaaS, with hands-on experience building nurture, onboarding, retention or win-back programmes from scratch

Deep, hands-on expertise with a marketing automation platform end to end, covering segmentation, journey and workflow building, and reporting, not just template design

Comfort being the first and only person in the role, building with no existing playbook or team to inherit

Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, as you will work closely with regional marketing, ABM, partnerships and marketing operations

A track record of using retention and expansion metrics (NRR, GRR, churn) to guide campaign strategy, not just open and click rates

Nice-to-have

Experience building these programmes from scratch more than once

What you will get

Recharge properly — 30 days of paid holiday

Change the view — a week-long exchange to London, Amsterdam, Paris, Munich, Vilnius, Berlin, Sofia, or Barcelona

Win together, celebrate together — regular team-wide events that are actually worth showing up to

Covered, properly — additional medical care

Stay in the game — a sports card, fully funded, for the gym, classes, or your sport of choice

Commute easily — a monthly travel allowance that covers getting to and from the office

Use what you build — hands-on access to the actual product you're hiring people to help build

Payhawk is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Source: Payhawk careers (Greenhouse)

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