Head of Pre-Subscriber and Conversion

London - Commercial

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The Economist is seeking a commercially minded, data-driven leader to build and scale our pre-subscriber strategy: growing a high-quality registered-user audience, creating habitual engagement across web and app, and converting the right users into long-term subscribers.

Reporting directly to the Co-President of The Economist and sitting within the Marketing team, this role will lead a team of two. You will set the strategy to grow the registered-user base both from Economist traffic and through new lead-acquisition tactics and partnerships, then work cross-functionally with Product, Editorial, Data and Growth to deliver the experiences that activate, engage and convert those users.

• Develop and optimise lead-acquisition tactics across paid media, social media and onsite journeys, leveraging first-party data to bring more high-quality users into the registered-user base
• Own the pre-subscriber growth strategy and optimisation plan: defining the value exchange for registration and how users progress to registered, activated, engaged and subscribed
• Design and scale the activation, engagement and habit-building programmes across various content formats, including articles, newsletters, and video
• Partner with Product and Editorial to create distinctive registered-user experiences, content propositions and capabilities that strengthen engagement and increase subscription intent
• Own the experimentation and measurement agenda, using insight and a clear testing and product feature roadmap to improve engagement and conversion of registered users
• Lead a team of two and establish clear operating rhythms with Acquisition, Subscriber Retention, Data, Technology and Creative teams, creating one coherent journey from first touchpoint through to subscription

• Significant experience in pre-subscriber, registered-user, lifecycle, growth or conversion within a digital subscription, membership or consumer media business
• Strong experience shaping customer journeys across web, app and owned channels, with fluency in CRM and personalisation technology;
  Salesforce Marketing Cloud experience is an advantage
• A rigorous, data-led approach to experimentation, funnels, cohorts, audience segmentation and incremental…