Shop is the consumer brand inside Shopify. Shop has hundreds of millions of users and lets customers discover new brands, pay quickly and safely via Shop pay, and track deliveries.
About the Role
You own Shop’s consumer lifecycle program — the system that turns a first Shop Pay checkout or a single order-tracking visit into repeat engagement with Shop and with the brands can be found on Shop app.
The mandate: move buyers from one-time to frequent, and from tracking a package to discovering and buying again.
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Strategy and execution. Define the lifecycle architecture across push and email, plus the segmentation, triggers, offers and personalization behind it.
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Measurement. Set the standard: always-on holdouts to understand incrementality, and a clear line from any message we send to engagement, order frequency and merchant GMV.
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Platform. Lead the roadmap with product, data and engineering to build what the strategy needs (e.g., audience infrastructure, journey orchestration, message prioritization, frequency governance, experimentation.)
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The calendar. Buyers get one coherent, well-paced experience, not the sum of everyone’s asks. BFCM and holiday peak included.
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Communication. Lifecycle touches nearly every buyer we have and nearly every team at Shop, so this job is as much alignment as craft. Sharp insights with clear communication will help get the right people on board.
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Creative. Push the work past functional. These messages should be worth opening.
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Zero defects. Buyer trust is the asset. A mis-sent message spends it.
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The team. At Shopify everyone is a manager and a doer. Hire and develop a small, senior team while staying deep in the work: determining the strategy, reviewing the copy, reading the query, shipping the campaign. Put AI agents to work across the lifecycle stack.
What you’ll own
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The end-to-end consumer lifecycle program for Shop: onboarding, activation, cross-surface adoption (Shop Pay to Shop app), engagement, frequency, reactivation and churn prevention.
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Cross-sell and adoption strategy across Shop surfaces — order tracking, discovery, Shop Cash and offers, Shop Pay — with a clear point of view on what earns the next visit.
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Audience and segmentation strategy, including propensity and next-best-action models built with our data and ML teams.
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The measurement standard: holdouts, incrementality, contribution to order frequency and merchant GMV, and the definitions everyone else adopts.
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Contactability and consent as a growth asset: permission rates, opt-in strategy, list health, deliverability and sending reputation.
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Message governance: frequency capping, prioritization, and a single global lifecycle calendar, coordinated with merchant marketing, brand and paid media teams.
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Creative partnership and quality bar for all lifecycle communications, including localization for international markets.
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Program forecasting and regular business reporting to Shop and Growth leadership.
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Compliance and privacy posture for consumer messaging (GDPR, CASL, CAN-SPAM, TCPA, platform push policies), in partnership with Legal and Privacy.
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Executive and cross-org communication: the narrative, forecasts and results that go to Shop, Growth and Shopify leadership, and the alignment across product, brand, creative, merchant marketing, data, legal and international that lifecycle depends on.
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Team: hiring, developing and leading a senior, high-leverage lifecycle and CRM team.
Requirements
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~15 years in lifecycle marketing, CRM, growth or retention, including experience leading teams and developing senior individual contributors.
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Track record owning a consumer lifecycle program at scale — hundreds of millions of users, multiple channels (push, email) — with accountability for engagement, frequency or retention targets, not just campaign delivery.
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Deep measurement fluency: you have built holdout and incrementality frameworks, can defend them to a skeptical audience, and can write your own SQL.
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Experience specifying and shipping lifecycle platform capability with product and engineering partners — CDP/audience infrastructure, journey orchestration, event pipelines, experimentation.
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Demonstrated zero-defect operating discipline in high-volume consumer messaging, and the systems and rituals to sustain it.
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Strong creative judgment; a portfolio of work that people actually enjoyed receiving.
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Experience in consumer marketplace, commerce, fintech or payments; comfort with two-sided dynamics where buyer engagement is also merchant value.
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Working knowledge of consumer messaging compliance and consent management across multiple markets.
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Exceptional written and verbal communication: you can compress a complex program into a one-page memo an executive acts on, and hold your own in a leadership review.
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Proven ability to drive alignment across product, brand, creative, data, legal and regional teams — representing lifecycle in planning and investment decisions, not just participating in them.
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Bonus: experience in loyalty or rewards currencies, international/multi-market lifecycle programs.
About Shopify
Opportunity is not evenly distributed. Shopify puts independence within reach for anyone with a dream to start a business. We propel entrepreneurs and enterprises to scale the heights of their potential. Since 2006, we’ve grown to over 8,300 employees and generated over $1 trillion in sales for millions of merchants in 175 countries.
This is life-defining work that directly impacts people’s lives as much as it transforms your own. This is putting the power of the few in the hands of the many, is a future with more voices rather than fewer, and is creating more choices instead of an elite option.
About you
Moving at our pace brings a lot of change, complexity, and ambiguity—and a little bit of chaos. Shopifolk thrive on that and are comfortable being uncomfortable. That means Shopify is not the right place for everyone.
Before you apply, consider if you can:
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Care deeply about what you do and about making commerce better for everyone
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Excel by seeking professional and personal hypergrowth
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Keep up with an unrelenting pace (the week, not the quarter)
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Be resilient and resourceful in face of ambiguity and thrive on (rather than endure) change
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Bring critical thought and opinion
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Put AI agents and tools to work on the tasks they’re built for, and focus on the work only humans can do
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Embrace differences and disagreement to get shit done and move forward
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Work digital-first for your daily work
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