Director of CRM

Are you passionate about learning languages? About helping people connect and communicate across cultures, for travel, friendship, or career advancement? About making an impact to our company and our 25MM+ learners? Come join our NY-based team as a Director of CRM.

Babbel is hiring a Director of CRM - Revenue Expansion role in our New York City office. This role will manage the CRM revenue strategy throughout the subscriber journey, specifically driving incremental revenue from our global audience of current and lapsed subscribers.

About the role:
The Director, CRM – Revenue Expansion owns Babbel’s global upgrade, upsell and winback strategy across email, push, and in-app messaging. You will drive expansion of revenue from current and lapsed subscribers across all regions by orchestrating high-impact programs at key lifecycle moments and running targeted promotions to qualified segments. You’ll lead a high-performing team, steward a dedicated upgrade and winback budget with clear CRM contribution goals, and partner cross-functionally to deliver measurable business outcomes. You bring strategic judgment, experimentation rigor, and people leadership to scale impact across millions of learners.

Responsibilities:

• Strategy and roadmap

  • Define and own the global expansion strategy and quarterly roadmap across all markets and channels; align to targets for upgrade, upsell, and winback revenue.
  • Partner with the CRM Engagement team to architect segmented journeys by lifecycle stage, behavior, product usage, and intent, with localized treatments where relevant.
  • Build and optimize program portfolios: pre-renewal and renewal flows, save flows, upgrades, involuntary churn recovery, winback flows, and future cross-sell readiness.

• Execution excellence

  • Oversee end-to-end journey design and orchestration in Emarsys across email, push, and in-app messages; ensure quality, timeliness, and brand alignment.
  • Establish clear experimentation roadmaps (A/B/MVT) with hypotheses, power, guardrails, and decision rules; maintain a winning playbook by segment and region.
  • Safeguard channel health and compliance: deliverability, list hygiene, frequency and fatigue management, preference management, and regional regulations (CAN-SPAM, CASL, GDPR).

• Analytics and insight

  • Own the retention measurement framework and reporting in partnership with Analytics; build Tableau dashboards for real-time visibility and weekly performance reviews.
  • Translate insights into roadmap changes; conduct post-mortems and champion learnings across teams.

• Cross-functional leadership

  • Partner with CRM lifecycle teams, Product Growth, Data/Analytics, Engineering, Creative/Brand, Performance Marketing, and Finance/RevOps to maximize impact of expansion programs.
  • Represent expansion strategy and results in quarterly/annual planning, reviews, and executive updates.

• Team leadership

  • Lead and develop managers and associates; set clear goals and competencies, provide ongoing feedback, and create growth pathways.
  • Standardize operating mechanisms: planning cadences, experiment review, QA standards, localization workflows, and campaign governance.

Who you are

• 8+ years in CRM or lifecycle marketing, including campaign strategy, automation, and revenue-driving roles; at least 3 years of team management experience
• Proven success driving direct sales and revenue in a subscription or product-led environment; experience partnering with Marketing and Product to influence user behavior that leads to revenue growth
• Experience building and managing effective marketing teams
• Proficient with CRM platforms (Emarsys, Braze, Klaviyo, etc), analytics tools (Tableau, Looker, Amplitude, or similar), and experimentation frameworks
• Data-driven and comfortable structuring complex problems with evidence
• Strong collaborator and communicator, with the ability to build alignment across teams and translate insights into action

Benefits

• Join a global company with purpose
• Competitive compensation, PTO, benefits
• Have an Impact on Babbel's product, company, and learners
• Career growth and skill development

This position is located in NYC and requires a minimum of 3 days/week in office.

Salary Information

In New York City, the reasonable annualized full-time salary for this role is $160,000 - $175,000 placement within this range will vary based on several factors including, but not limited to experience, education, licensure/certifications, training and skill level.

Babbel is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.