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Lifecycle Marketing, CRM & Retention Leadership

I am a lifecycle marketing and retention executive with more than a decade of experience building customer growth programs for subscription, direct-to-consumer, e-commerce, and consumer brands.

My work spans CRM strategy, customer onboarding, subscription retention, churn prevention, winback, personalization, email, SMS, push, in-app messaging, loyalty, marketing technology, experimentation, analytics, and team leadership.

I specialize in turning customer behavior into clear strategic direction—building the teams, operating models, technology, and cross-functional alignment required to improve customer lifetime value at scale.

 

2026 – Present

Director of Retention

Dose

New York, NY

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  • Lead retention strategy across onboarding, subscription readiness, rebill protection, churn prevention, cancellation, loyalty, winback, reactivation, and customer lifetime value.

  • Build the company’s cross-functional retention roadmap in partnership with Product, Analytics, Acquisition, Engineering, Creative, Operations, and Customer Experience.

  • Redesign lifecycle programs around customer readiness, product value, behavioral signals, and measurable retention outcomes.

  • Establish measurement frameworks across customer cohorts, onboarding engagement, subscription survival, cancellation reasons, incremental revenue, and reactivation.

  • Lead CRM strategy across email, SMS, subscription experiences, and customer journey touchpoints.

  • Develop scalable lifecycle operating processes covering prioritization, experimentation, implementation, quality assurance, reporting, and executive communication.

12/2023 - 10/2025 

Director of CRM

SCENTBIRD

New York, NY

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  • Led lifecycle strategy across email, SMS, push, and in-app messaging, delivering 20% quarterly CRM revenue growth and an 18% improvement in retention through more personalized customer journeys.

  • Led a cross-functional CRM team of five and partnered with creative, copy, analytics, product, brand, and technology teams to deliver more than 150 campaigns per quarter.

  • Developed the long-term CRM technology roadmap and led vendor evaluations for ESP, CDP, personalization, and automation capabilities.

  • Built a structured experimentation program across lifecycle communications, increasing conversion through A/B and multivariate testing.

  • Developed behavioral segmentation and dynamic personalization strategies across acquisition, onboarding, engagement, subscription growth, reactivation, and retention.

  • Connected CRM performance to broader growth objectives, customer cohorts, payback periods, subscription starts, reactivations, and long-term customer value.

11/2021 - 7/2023 

Director of Lifecycle Marketing - Acquisition & Growth

Barkbox

New York, NY

 Director of Lifecycle Marketing - Acquisition & Growth
  • Led lifecycle marketing strategy across email, SMS, and direct mail to support new subscriber acquisition, conversion, and early customer engagement.

  • Restructured the email and lifecycle calendar, built a formal experimentation roadmap, and introduced a more iterative approach to acquisition and growth programs.

  • Developed behavioral and product personalization using dog breed, age, location, health concerns, purchase behavior, and customer preferences.

  • Used campaign, customer, and behavioral data to identify growth opportunities and develop cross-channel communication strategies.

  • Partnered with Brand, Creative, Paid Media, Analytics, and Supply Chain teams to coordinate customer experiences and measure lifecycle performance.

2/2019 - 11/2021

Associate Director, Conversion and Growth

Freshly

New York, NY

Lifecycle Marketing Manager at Freshly
  • Led lifecycle and conversion programs supporting customer acquisition, activation, engagement, and retention.

  • Developed lead-nurture and conversion strategies using segmentation, testing, contact frequency, offer design, and cross-channel customer journeys.

  • Built offer strategies designed to balance near-term conversion with customer lifetime value.

  • Developed customer communications that connected conversion objectives with the Freshly brand and customer experience.

  • Created retention strategies using customer analytics, behavioral segmentation, personalized journeys, and ongoing experimentation.

  • Partnered across Creative, Analytics, Product, Brand, and Growth to improve lifecycle performance.

10/2018 - 2/2019

Email Marketing & CRM Manager

GoReadyMade

New York, NY

 Email Marketing & CRM Manager
  • Planned and implemented multichannel customer journeys across email, direct mail, and mobile to onboard, engage, retain, and reactivate customers.

  • Created conversion-focused communications that maintained a clear and consistent brand voice.

  • Developed the brand’s retention strategy using customer analytics, segmentation, and personalized lifecycle journeys.

  • Built the infrastructure required to identify, track, test, and optimize customer touchpoints by audience, message, timing, and channel.

2/2017 - 10/2018

Director Of Ecommerce

Heritage Baby Products

Piscataway, New Jersey

Director Of Ecommerce
  • Led e-commerce strategy across business planning, website experience, content, promotional campaigns, digital marketing, customer service, analytics, and web technology.

  • Served as the primary cross-functional partner for evaluating, prioritizing, developing, implementing, and testing e-commerce initiatives.

  • Contributed to strategic and tactical business planning supporting customer acquisition, conversion, digital experience, and online growth.

Education

2011 - 2014

Bachelor of Science in Communication and Media Studies

Studied communication, media, writing, marketing, business, production, and audience strategy—building the foundation for a career connecting customer insight, storytelling, technology, and business growth.

St. John's University

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