Andrew Lauchner

Andrew Lauchner

Growth & Retention Leader — Lifecycle, Email, SMS, CRM

I build owned-channel revenue for consumer brands: lifecycle, email, SMS, retention.

Scottsdale, AZ — open to remote or relocation
andrew@growthlegend.com · 602-615-7665
linkedin.com/in/andrew-lauchner · andrewlauchner.com

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Summary

I build owned-channel revenue for consumer brands: lifecycle, email, SMS, retention. I have run it in-house at a $100M+ revenue business and across a portfolio of DTC brands, and I am precise about which numbers are measured and which are reported. What I want now is one seat: VP or Director of Lifecycle and Retention, Head of Growth, or VP Growth.

Experience

Founder — Growth Legend

Growth and retention practice for DTC and ecommerce brands, run alongside three in-house operator seats and a retention contract. Continues the practice previously run as Lauchner Media.

Oct 2024 – Present · Scottsdale, AZ

  • Repeat purchase: Magic Spoon up 38% over roughly six months after a flow rebuild. Before and after, not a controlled test.
  • Peak season: $1.6M+ in email and SMS revenue for Gobi Heat in a single winter season.
  • Cold start: Power Provisions cleared its first $100K in email and SMS inside 30 days of launch.
In-house and contract seats held in this period
  • Retention Strategist (contract), Right Hook Digital · Apr – Jul 2026
  • Head of Growth & Retention, Nexus Agriscience · Aug 2025 – Feb 2026
  • Head of Enterprise Growth, OuterFactor · Mar – Aug 2025
  • Head of Sales, mostdope · Oct 2024 – Mar 2025

Sr. Director of Growth & Retention Marketing — Gallery Furniture

Owned growth and retention for a $100M+ revenue retailer: email, SMS, outbound, performance media, and the CRM stack.

Jan 2021 – Oct 2024 · Houston, TX

  • Lifetime value: rebuilt the customer journey and post-purchase program across email, SMS and outbound; customer lifetime value up 330%.
  • "Astros Win You Win": co-led the promotion that reached $74M in promotional sales before it was closed, plus national earned media.
  • Store traffic: the same campaign drove a 500% surge in foot traffic across the showrooms.
  • Replatformed the stack: migrated the email programme from Listrak to Klaviyo and the storefront to Shopify, and rebuilt the segmentation on the new stack.
  • Built and led the function: hired and directed the design, development, sales, social and operations group against one revenue number, owned the growth budget and the forecast, ran performance media in-house, and rewrote the sales playbooks and the lead-to-appointment funnel.

Head of Growth & Retention, Contract — Retail Ecommerce Ventures

Lifecycle and retention across an acquired portfolio: Pier 1, RadioShack, Dressbarn, Stein Mart, Modell's, Franklin Mint. Contract engagement; the final ten months ran alongside the start at Gallery Furniture.

Nov 2019 – Oct 2021 · Remote

  • Scale: stood up lifecycle and retention as the company went from 15 to 400+ people.
  • Catalog: segmentation and merchandising logic across 250K+ SKUs and six brands.
  • Dormant databases: welcome, win-back, post-purchase and VIP programs built on millions of legacy customer records in Klaviyo and Listrak.

Lead Project Manager — SeedX

Growth agency in West Hollywood. Owned client delivery from strategy through execution.

Jan 2017 – Dec 2019 · West Hollywood, CA

  • Team: led a remote team of 15+ across multiple time zones.
  • Delivery: ran six-figure growth engagements for enterprise and high-growth ecommerce clients, including Google and Forever 21.

Email & SMS — UNTUCKit

Owned the email and SMS program for a DTC menswear brand.

2015 – 2017 · New York, NY

  • Conversion: email conversion from under 1% to roughly 3.5%.

Earlier and concurrent contract roles: Greatness Wins (2022–23) · 3Commas (2020–22) · Binance (2019–20) · YEEZY (2019–20). Held alongside the roles above.

Selected engagements

Gobi Heat · Punkcase · Magic Spoon · Mike's Mighty Good · Power Provisions · Chassis For Men

Key areas of expertise

Tools

Klaviyo · Attentive · Postscript · Listrak · Shopify and Shopify Plus · Amazon Seller Central · Meta Ads Manager · Google Ads · Google Analytics 4 · Looker Studio · Zapier · Figma

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