Xero is a beautiful, easy-to-use platform that helps small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors grow and thrive.

At Xero, our purpose is to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world. This purpose sits at the centre of everything we do. We support our people to do the best work of their lives so that they can help small businesses succeed through better tools, information and connections. Because when they succeed they make a difference, and when millions of small businesses are making a difference, the world is a more beautiful place.

How you’ll make an impact:

As a Lifecycle Marketing Lead, you will play a crucial role in supporting Xero’s global small business lifecycle and engagement strategy to accelerate conversion, time to value and drive continuous incremental uplifts throughout our direct to small business channel.

Reporting into our Lifecycle Marketing Manager, you will be part of a team responsible for ideating and delivering personalised, orchestrated journeys that are #beautiful, relevant and above all impactful. You’ll effectively leverage all direct marketing channels, tooling and data at your disposal for the best customer outcomes - including but not limited to, email, in-product communications, push and SMS.

We are looking for a Marketing Lifecycle Lead who is data-savvy, commercially astute and apt at working with both business and technical stakeholders to drive outcomes that deliver high quality customer conversion and overall market share growth here at Xero.

What you'll do:

Use a human-centered design approach to map who our users are, what they need and design communication journeys that ensure every engagement point we have adds value
Work collaboratively with Product Marketing, Product Onboarding, Customer Success, Regional Marketing, Revenue Operations, Design and Analytics specialists to deeply understand the end-to-end customer journey in order to inform your recommendations to the communications experience in your lifecycle specialisation
Identify and provide requirements for appropriate customer research along the lifecycle journey, to ensure we have actionable insights and are tracking and solving real customer problems
Use Salesforce Marketing Cloud to gain insights into our customer engagement behaviour that can help inform other areas of the business
Drive customer lifecycle programs that are commercially aligned to business goals and strategy, by always linking the customer or commercial need and opportunity
Ideate and drive optimisation and innovation within the customer journey, ensuring that magic is happening at every touchpoint & interaction, through a continuous test-and-learn approach
End-to-end development and execution of project initiatives, within strict timelines and sequencing, through to post-analysis and continual improvement
Own the customer success metrics relevant to your role, continuously reviewing and analysing Trial → Paying conversion, Expired Trial List Win Back %, Product Milestone completion, Cost - Benefit of promotional offers
Work closely with data and analytics teams to ensure availability of quality data for audience targeting and tracking to ensure initiatives are set up correctly to report on incremental performance outcomes
Leverage data and qualitative/quantitative customer insights to define lifecycle initiative briefs, insightful hypotheses, creative and user experience

What you'll bring:

Extensive experience in email marketing and/or marketing automation platform and digital experimentation
Experience in Salesforce Marketing Cloud and Sales Cloud and Google Analytics
Deep understanding of human-centred design, service design or design thinking
Highly strategic and customer led mindset with the ability to identify opportunities of value for the business and customers
Self-motivation, achievement oriented outlook, innovative thinking, with the ability to thrive in a highly dynamic work environment
A deep knowledge and understanding of audience data and segmentation
Experience working with promotional levers to drive conversion uplift
Proven ability to communicate with stakeholders around the “why” for each project
Excellent written and verbal skills across technical and non technical audiences
Excellent project management skills and ability to juggle multiple projects at once

Why Xero?

Offering very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!), dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family, health insurance, life insurance, and income protection, wellbeing and sports programmes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.

Our collaborative and inclusive culture is one we’re immensely proud of. We know that a diverse workforce is a strength that enables businesses, including ours, to better understand and serve customers, attract top talent and innovate successfully. We are a member of Pride in Diversity, in recognition of our inclusive workplace. Our goal is to make sure you feel welcome and supported to do the best work of your life.

At Xero we embrace diversity and inclusion and value a #challenge mindset. Research has shown that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single competency or experience . If you are excited about this role, but your past experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be just the right person for this role and Xero. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application and throughout the interview process.

Lifecycle Marketing Lead - Trial Conversion