About the Role
Zinc’s Content & Authority squad is seeking its first Lifecycle Marketing Manager to own CRM systems and journeys that progress contacts from Subscriber to MQL and beyond.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain nurture segmentation, workflows, and automations.
- Keep lists clean, contacts healthy, and documentation sound.
- Design and set up emails (one-off and automated) using self-created HTML templates.
- Collaborate with marketing, account management, and enablement/service specialists on scalable lifecycle campaign strategy.
- Write, build, deploy, and refine lifecycle email programs with ownership and reader experience in mind.
- Manage the operational aspects of one-off customer email communications for essential product or legal updates, coordinating sequencing and distribution.
- Define, track, and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) for each program, including open rates, click-to-open rates, conversion to MQL, stage progression, and unsubscribe rates.
- Implement A/B testing as standard practice for subject lines, content, send cadence, and calls-to-action (CTAs).
- Translate data into clear, contextual recommendations and advocate for changes based on findings.
- Audit HubSpot, document list hygiene issues, and initiate a remediation plan within the first 90 days.
- Launch or rebuild at least one nurture program with a clear measurement framework within the first 90 days.
- Own a functioning lifecycle program across at least two journey stages (e.g., Subscriber → MQL, onboarding) within 6 months.
- Ensure A/B testing is standard practice and demonstrate changes made based on test results within 6 months.
- Monitor and maintain deliverability health metrics (bounce rate, spam complaint rate, sender reputation) within acceptable thresholds within 6 months.
- Achieve measurable quarter-on-quarter improvements in email-influenced MQL volume and stage-progression rates within 12 months.
- Ensure lifecycle programs are documented, scalable, and understood by cross-functional stakeholders within 12 months.
- Act as a trusted partner to sales, account management, and product teams, proactively communicating CRM changes and their implications within 12 months.
Requirements
- Used HubSpot as your CRM.
- Proven experience building programs from scratch in a CRM, lifecycle, or retention marketing role within B2B SaaS.
- Strong copywriting skills with a portfolio of high-performing email work.
- Working knowledge of email deliverability, including authentication, sender reputation, and list hygiene.
- Conscientious approach to building, noting limitations, watch-outs, and recent changes impacting flow design logic.
- Awareness of the impact of CRM work on cross-functional colleagues and a desire to help them understand changes.
- Calm, proactive communication style with stakeholders at all levels and departments.
- Interest in the campaigns, assets, and messaging being developed by the team.
- Interest in the evolution of AI in marketing.
Skills
- HubSpot CRM
- Lifecycle Marketing
- Retention Marketing
- B2B SaaS Marketing
- Copywriting
- Email Marketing
- A/B Testing
- Data Analysis
- Email Deliverability
- HTML Templating
Location
- Zinc - London
Work Type
- Full Time
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- £70,000 - £88,800 / year
Benefits
- 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays + your birthday off
- £1200 annual benefits allowance (ThanksBen, from month 2)
- Early finish Fridays (16:00)
- Yearly company retreat abroad
- 30 days to Work from anywhere
- Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption Leave (2 months full pay, then statutory)
- Statutory pension with NEST (3% employer, 5% employee)
- Zinc shares, issued through the EMI Scheme
- Unlimited access to MoreHappi coaching
- Company socials, quarterly team socials
- Free Monday lunches
- Nursery workplace benefit scheme (Yellownest)
- Option to lease an electric car through Electric Car Scheme
- Celebrated Zinc anniversaries
About the Company
- Zinc offers a chance to work on a product that brings a fresh perspective on data ownership in hiring.
