Directive is building a dedicated Lifecycle Marketing practice designed to help clients turn more of the demand they already generate into pipeline, revenue, repeat purchases, expansion, and long-term customer value.
We are looking for an Associate Director of Lifecycle Marketing to help build that offering from the ground up.
This is a player-coach role from day one. You will be hands-on with strategy, platform architecture, client delivery, and execution while also helping define how Directive approaches Lifecycle Marketing as a practice. As the offering grows, you will help hire, mentor, and develop the team around you while continuing to stay close to our most strategic and complex client work.
You will have significant autonomy to shape the practice, including our methodology, service offerings, delivery model, technology recommendations, measurement frameworks, and how we bring Lifecycle Marketing to market. You will work closely with the Director and Managing Director, who will provide strategic direction, support, and partnership while giving you room to build.
This is not a role for someone looking to inherit a finished playbook. We have a strong starting point, but we are looking for someone with the experience and point of view to challenge it, improve it, and help us create something meaningfully differentiated.
The Clients You’ll Support
Our Lifecycle Marketing practice supports two fundamentally different revenue models. You need to be able to operate across both and teach others how to do the same.
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Direct Commerce Retention: Distributors, manufacturers, and other businesses with a direct purchasing relationship and trackable order history.
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Channel & Partner Enablement Lifecycle: Manufacturers selling through distributors, dealers, resellers, or other channel partners. In these environments, the lifecycle audience may be the channel partner rather than the end buyer.
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Lead Nurture & Pipeline Acceleration: Our Service and SaaS clients generate handraisers across paid media, organic, events, content, and other acquisition channels. Lifecycle Marketing helps turn those handraisers into qualified opportunities and customers in partnership with the client’s sales and BDR teams.
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Customer Expansion & Subscription Growth: Once a prospect becomes a customer, Lifecycle Marketing can help deepen that relationship.