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      <Title>Lifecycle Marketing Lead</Title>
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<p><strong>The Role</strong></p>
<p>We&#39;re looking for a Lifecycle Marketing Lead to own and evolve the end-to-end customer journey—from signup through activation, sustained usage, and reactivation. This is a hybrid product growth + lifecycle marketing role. You will design the systems that turn product usage signals into timely, relevant interventions across email, and in-product surfaces.</p>
<p><strong>What You&#39;ll Do</strong></p>
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<li><strong>Own onboarding, activation, and early lifecycle performance.</strong> Design and continuously improve the new user journey to reduce time-to-first-value, increase repeat usage, and drive early adoption of core product capabilities across API and dashboard experiences.</li>
<li><strong>Build and operate lifecycle programs driven by product usage.</strong> Own lifecycle strategy across welcome, activation, engagement, expansion, and reactivation. Translate product events and usage thresholds into triggered journeys across email and in-product channels, partnering with an agency for design and execution where appropriate.</li>
<li><strong>Run experiments that compound product-led growth.</strong> Design, execute, and analyze experiments using tools like PostHog to improve conversion, adoption, and retention. Maintain a focused experimentation cadence tied to clear lifecycle and revenue outcomes.</li>
<li><strong>Support PLG-to-sales motions with high-quality signals.</strong> Define and operationalize signals that identify high-potential accounts based on usage behavior, and build automated flows that enable the BD team to engage with the right context at the right time.</li>
<li><strong>Define, measure, and communicate lifecycle success.</strong> Establish clear lifecycle metrics and benchmarks (activation signals, engagement patterns, retention and reactivation rates), and use them to inform priorities, trade-offs, and ongoing optimization.</li>
<li><strong>Partner cross-functionally to ship the journey.</strong> Work closely with product, engineering, data, and sales to align on lifecycle priorities, influence instrumentation and product surfaces, and ensure lifecycle systems reflect how customers actually use OpenRouter.</li>
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<p><strong>What We’re Looking For</strong></p>
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<li>7-10 years of experience in lifecycle marketing, growth marketing, product growth, or adjacent roles—ideally in PLG or developer-focused products.</li>
<li>Strong analytical instincts and experience working directly with product usage data and experimentation.</li>
<li>Hands-on experience with lifecycle and experimentation tooling (e.g. email platforms, marketing automation, PostHog or similar).</li>
<li>Track record of working directly with engineers, designers and analysts to bring projects to life.</li>
<li>Clear understanding of how onboarding, activation, and lifecycle systems drive product-led growth.</li>
<li>Comfort owning strategy while executing tactically in an early-stage, evolving environment.</li>
<li>Strong cross-functional communication skills and ability to work effectively with product and engineering partners.</li>
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<p><strong>Nice to Have</strong></p>
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<li>Experience with API-first, infrastructure, or developer-tools products.</li>
<li>Prior experience building lifecycle systems from scratch.</li>
<li>Familiarity with customer data platforms, enrichment, or CRM workflows.</li>
<li>Technical or growth-engineering background enabling lightweight automation or instrumentation.</li>
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<p><strong>Why OpenRouter</strong></p>
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<li>Work at the center of the AI infrastructure stack as enterprises define how they adopt LLMs.</li>
<li>High ownership and autonomy to define how developer education and community scale.</li>
<li>Opportunity to shape a foundational function at a fast-growing company.</li>
<li>Fully remote team with a culture of autonomy and trust.</li>
<li>Competitive compensation, including base salary and equity.</li>
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      <Jobtype>Full time</Jobtype>
      <Experiencelevel>senior</Experiencelevel>
      <Workarrangement>Remote</Workarrangement>
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      <Skills>Lifecycle Marketing, Growth Marketing, Product Growth, Email Platforms, Marketing Automation, PostHog, Experimentation Tooling, Product Usage Data, Data Analysis, Cross-Functional Communication, API-first, Infrastructure, Developer-Tools, Customer Data Platforms, Enrichment, CRM Workflows, Technical, Growth-Engineering</Skills>
      <Category>Marketing</Category>
      <Industry>Technology</Industry>
      <Employername>OpenRouter</Employername>
      <Employerlogo>https://logos.yubhub.co/openrouter.com.png</Employerlogo>
      <Employerdescription>OpenRouter is an AI routing and infrastructure layer that enterprises use to access, manage, and optimize large language models across providers.</Employerdescription>
      <Employerwebsite>https://jobs.ashbyhq.com</Employerwebsite>
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      <Location>Remote (US)</Location>
      <Country></Country>
      <Postedate>2026-03-09</Postedate>
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