Head of Retention

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Hiring Remotely in Los Angeles, CA, USA
In-Office or Remote
175K-210K Annually
Senior level
Beauty • eCommerce • Healthtech • Retail
The Role
Owns subscription retention and renewal performance, including third-shipment retention, churn, failed-renewal recovery, cancel-and-save flows, subscriber communications, portal improvements, save rules, and experimentation. The role has direct authority over retention metrics, leads a two-person team, independently analyzes data, and reports results. It requires an experienced subscription retention leader comfortable making fast, data-driven decisions in a fully remote environment.
Summary Generated by Built In
Is this you?
  • You've owned retention at a subscription business where most revenue came from renewals.

  • You want to own a number outright, not support the person who owns it.

  • You'd rather be handed something broken and left alone than handed a plan and asked to run it.

  • You think in weeks — though some results take two to three months to read. Waiting three meetings for a decision makes you itch.

  • If you need everyone to agree before you move, this will frustrate you.

The problem

We're good at getting people to buy. Someone watches a long video sales letter, buys a multi-bottle offer, and their first renewal comes a few weeks later. We are not good enough at what happens next — too many never take a third shipment.

Closing that gap is worth more than anything else on the marketing roadmap, and right now it belongs to nobody. It would belong to you.

What you'd own

Six measures, tracked weekly: third shipment taken, churn, take rate, failed renewals recovered, self-serve retention, and net revenue per new subscriber in the first 90 days. Five outright, one you influence.

Underneath them: every message a subscriber gets in their first 90 days, the cancel flow and the offers in it, the subscriber portal, the save rules the phone team follows, and the test roadmap. A two-person team builds what you decide to build.

Most of it you decide and tell the CMO afterward. You don't ask first. A few, like the subscription offer at checkout, you shape with the teams that run them.

What you'd be good at
  • Reporting a number you own in a bad week, without softening it

  • Finding the cause that's true rather than the one that's comfortable

  • Killing a test you designed, on the date you set before launch

  • Checking a figure against a second source before you say it

  • Pulling and checking your own numbers rather than waiting on an analyst

We're data-heavy and use AI tools daily, Claude especially. You won't build or send campaigns. Your team does.

One thing we won't ask you to do: trap people. We don't keep subscribers by making cancellation hard.

You're probably our person if

You've owned first- or second-renewal retention at a subscription business doing $50M+ or carrying 20,000+ subscribers, where most revenue came from renewals rather than new orders. You've run a cancel-and-save program end to end, managed people for three years or more, and would rather have real authority over one number than an opinion on five. Eight-plus years in retention, lifecycle or subscription roles. Supporting the owner doesn't count.

Pay and terms

$175,000 to $210,000 base depending on experience. 15% target bonus on company EBITDA. Full-time W-2, fully remote, unlimited PTO after 90 days, health and 401(k), six-month probationary period.

How this goes

A written answer, a short call, an interview on your career job by job, a 30-minute live read of a data table with no prep, a final with leadership, and reference calls. Six steps, none wasted.

If that's the job you've been waiting for someone to hand you, apply.

Company Values

We are Obsessed With What People Respond To. We are Scrappy. We are Kaizen. We Follow Through. We Give a Damn. We Win and Help Win.

Skills Required

  • Experience owning retention at a subscription business where most revenue came from renewals
  • Experience owning first- or second-renewal retention
  • Subscription business experience with at least $50 million in revenue or 20,000-plus subscribers
  • End-to-end experience running a cancel-and-save program
  • At least three years of people management experience
  • Eight-plus years of experience in retention, lifecycle, or subscription roles
  • Ability to independently pull, verify, and analyze performance data
  • Experience owning retention metrics and making independent decisions
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The Company
10 Employees

What We Do

Sun Coast Sciences is a health and wellness company offering doctor-formulated supplements and skincare focused on anti-aging, beauty, brain, immune, and overall wellness. Founded by Dr. Mark Rosenberg and supported by a team of medical professionals, the brand uses clinically studied ingredients and sells directly to consumers online to deliver premium, science-backed formulas designed to help customers look, feel, and live their youngest.

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