Frequently Asked Questions:
What does a Retention Manager do?
A Retention Manager owns the lifecycle marketing programs that keep customers active and reduce churn: email and SMS flows, win-back campaigns, loyalty programs, segmentation, and revenue from existing customers. They sit between marketing, product, and customer success, and their KPIs are usually retention rate, CLV, and second-purchase rate.
How much does it cost to hire a Retention Manager?
Hiring a Retention Manager in the U.S. is significantly more expensive than in Latin America, with an average U.S. salary of $4,400 per month compared with an average Latin American salary of $2,000 per month, creating potential savings of up to 55%. Working with South gives you access to a vetted pool of LatAm Retention Managers on contracts that handle compliance and payroll, with same-time-zone collaboration.
Can a U.S.-based company hire a remote Retention Manager from Latin America?
Yes. Retention is platform work in Klaviyo, Iterable, or Braze. Latin American retention managers from DTC and SaaS companies deliver U.S.-equivalent results at lower cost. South contracts locally and keeps them in your time zone for live coordination with brand and product.
What skills should I look for when hiring a Retention Manager?
Hands-on experience with at least one major lifecycle platform (Klaviyo, Iterable, Braze, or Customer.io), comfort with segmentation and SQL, strong copywriting judgment, plus the analytical depth to measure incrementality on retention efforts. Senior signal is being able to prove a flow is incremental, not just attribution-attributed.
What tools and software should a Retention Manager know?
Klaviyo, Iterable, Braze, Customer.io, HubSpot, Mailchimp, plus Mixpanel or Amplitude for product analytics, Looker or Tableau for reporting, and Shopify or Salesforce as the source of truth. Hightouch or Census for reverse ETL.
How is a Retention Manager different from related roles?
A Retention Manager focuses on existing-customer lifecycle. A Growth Marketing Manager covers acquisition and retention. An Email Marketer is one channel inside a retention program. A Customer Success Manager owns relationship and renewal directly, often paired with retention marketing.
How can South help me hire a Retention Manager?
South vets LatAm retention managers by reviewing past lifecycle program work, running flow design exercises, and checking analytical depth on retention KPIs. You see a shortlist in seven to ten days, run your own interviews, and onboard in two to three weeks. Schedule a free call here to get started!
Interview Questions:
- Walk me through a winback flow you built. What was the trigger and what was the result?
- Compare Klaviyo, Iterable, and Braze. When do you pick each?
- How do you measure incrementality on a retention flow?
- Walk me through your segmentation strategy on a 500K customer list.
- Tell me about a flow you killed. Why?
- How do you handle SMS opt-in and compliance across U.S. states?
- Walk me through your A/B testing framework on email.
- How do you handle product churn signals coming from analytics?
- Walk me through your weekly retention dashboard. What is on it?
- Tell me about a campaign that failed. What did you learn?
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