Senior Manager, Email Lifecycle Strategy
Santa Clara, CAFull-time$155k–$272kPosted Jul 17, 2026
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Senior Manager, Email Lifecycle Strategy Full-timeEmployee Type: RegularRegion: AMS - North America and CanadaWork Persona: Flexible or RemoteCompany DescriptionIt all started when engineer Fred Luddy wrote code that automated a tedious task for his coworker, Phyllis. She cried tears of joy. That moment inspired Fred to build a company that could do that for everyone—freeing people from busywork so they could focus on meaningful work. Today, ServiceNow is the AI control tower for business reinvention. Our ServiceNow AI platform brings together any AI, any data, and any workflow— helping 85% of the Fortune 500® work smarter, faster, and better. We're building an AI-native culture where technology and talent are unstoppable together. And we're just getting started.Join us to put AI to work for people. Job DescriptionThe Senior Manager of Email Lifecycle Strategy leads email channel strategy for buying group engagement across ServiceNow's integrated marketing motion. This role translates the shift from lead-centric to buying group-based opportunity qualification into scalable, high-impact email programs that span the customer journey. This is a people manager role with influence across segmentation architecture, persona-level messaging, cadence design, and lifecycle program strategy. Partners across Integrated, Field, Media, Digital, and Analytics teams to bring strategy to life. Responsibilities Design email lifecycle strategies mapped to buying group structures, addressing each stakeholder role (Champions, Economic Buyers, Influencers) with sequenced messaging across the revenue waterfall. Translate ServiceNow's buying group GTM model into email segmentation logic, audience targeting, and content sequencing aligned to opportunity stages. Develop lifecycle program frameworks that support awareness, consideration, acquisition, pipeline progression, and post-sale adoption, with clear handoff logic between stages. Design segmentation standards, cadence thresholds, and suppression logic for review and approval by the Director. Act as email strategy partner to Global Integrated Campaigns, Field Marketing, and regional Integrated Marketing teams, embedding email in campaign architecture from brief through execution. Represent email channel interests in planning forums, contributing segmentation input, cadence recommendations, and capacity constraints to integrated campaign planning. Design and run A/B and multivariate testing programs with clear hypotheses and stakeholder-ready readouts. Monitor program performance at the lifecycle stage level, surfacing insights through QBR reporting and recommending data-backed adjustments. Identify and pilot AI-driven opportunities across content personalization, send-time optimization, predictive segmentation, and automated program logic. Proactively surface capacity constraints, sequencing conflicts, and governance risks before they become escalations. QualificationsTo be successful in this role you have:8+ years in B2B email or lifecycle marketing, with deep experience in segmentation strategy, campaign architecture, and integrated program design. Hard Skills Email Platform Fluency: Marketo Engage required. Adobe Journey Optimizer B2B, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, or Oracle Eloqua experience a plus. Buying Group Strategy: Forrester B2B Revenue Waterfall or equivalent demand framework fluency, with experience operationalizing into email strategy. Lifecycle Program Design: Multi-stage strategies across awareness, consideration, acquisition, progression, and post-sale adoption. Segmentation and Personalization: Persona-level messaging strategy for multi-stakeholder B2B buying motions. AI and Automation Fluency: Practical evaluation and deployment of AI tools across personalization, send-time optimization, and predictive segmentation. Measurement Fluency: QBR-level reporting that translates performance data into strategic...