Lifecycle Marketing Manager; In-School Lending

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Navient Solutions LLC
** Navient (Nasdaq: NAVI)
** helps students and families confidently manage the cost of higher education. We create long-term value for customers and investors through responsible lending, flexible refinancing, trusted servicing oversight, and decades of portfolio management expertise. Our employees thrive in a culture of belonging, where they are supported and proud to deliver meaningful outcomes.

As the
** Lifecycle Marketing Manager**, you will play a strategic role in owning the development and execution of lifecycle campaigns that drive conversion and acquisition of Earnest and Navient’s products. You will be responsible for building out some of Earnest and Navient’s most important initiatives across our consumer finance products. This role includes hands-on ownership of campaign execution within the Braze CRM platform, requiring deep expertise in journey orchestration, segmentation, testing, QA, and deployment across lifecycle channels.

Our ideal candidate has extensive experience with a next-generation CRM platform (Braze) and CDP (Segment), a willingness to own all aspects of their work (strategy development, creative briefing, audience segmentation, journey pathing, campaign execution, a/b testing, analytics measurement, etc.), analytic skills (well-versed in Google Sheets and Looker, HTML and SQL a plus), superior attention to detail, prioritization and time management in a fast-paced environment.

You will provide senior leadership and stakeholders with campaign performance reports, including data-driven recommendations for future campaign optimization and strategic plans for growing the impact of lifecycle marketing. This cross-functional role works closely with Creative, Marketing Operations, Legal & Compliance, Analytics, Product Marketing, and Product.

Areas of Responsibility:
** Lifecycle Campaign Execution (Braze CRM Platform)
*** Own end-to-end execution of lifecycle marketing campaigns within the Braze platform, including email, push, in-app, and SMS (where applicable).
* Build and manage Braze Canvas journeys, including entry criteria, event-based triggers, decision splits, personalization logic, and suppression rules.
* Configure audience segmentation using real-time event data, user attributes, and CDP integrations (Segment).
* Partner with Marketing Operations and Data teams to ensure accurate event instrumentation, data flow, and campaign eligibility logic.
* Execute campaign QA (content, targeting, timing, links, tracking parameters, compliance requirements) prior to launch.
* Manage campaign deployment schedules, throttling, and frequency controls to protect customer experience and deliverability.
* Implement and monitor A/B and multivariate tests directly within Braze, ensuring statistical rigor and clean readouts.
* Troubleshoot execution issues (data discrepancies, delivery failures, journey logic) and resolve quickly with cross-functional partners.
* Ensure all executions meet legal, regulatory, and brand standards (CAN-SPAM, TCPA, CPPA, consent management).
** Strategy Development
*** Translate team objectives and key results into actionable plans.
* Define an experimentation roadmap for increasing the impact of existing lifecycle marketing strategies.
* Develop and maintain a customer serialization framework to categorize users by lifecycle stage, loan status, engagement level and behavioral data.
* Making strategic recommendations on new areas of opportunity (new capabilities, partnerships, etc.).
** Project Management
*** Superior attention to detail, prioritization and time management in a fast-paced environment.
* Ownership mentality: willingness to own all aspects of campaign strategy development, creative briefing, audience segmentation, journey pathing, campaign execution, creative a/b testing, analytics measurement, and campaign performance readouts.
* Ability to manage project…