Director of Marketing Cloud Operations

Ames, IA (Unknown)

Salary Not AvailableDirector/Executive3+ years exp

Posted 2 weeks ago

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Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Provide day-to-day direction for SFMC across Email Studio, Journey Builder, Automation Studio, and Contact Builder to ensure platform stability and on-time campaign delivery.
  • Lead the execution of the established SFMC send calendar to ensure build readiness, dependencies, and approvals within Marketing Cloud, and surfacing conflicts or risks to the Product Owner as needed.
  • Deliver detailed documentation and Jira stories for SFMC builds and operational work (email/Journey/ automation setup, audience, quality assurance, deployment), aligned to Product Owner priorities and sequencing, ensuring clear requirements, acceptance criteria, and cross-team handoffs.
  • Perform SFMC quality assurance and pre-send checks.
  • Design, build, and maintain SFMC automations and journeys; perform quality assurance and ongoing monitoring to ensure reliability and effectiveness; partner with other teams to troubleshoot failed activities, data loads, sends or reporting and to resolve dependencies outside of Marketing Cloud; coordinate incident response, escalation, and post-incident documentation.
  • Define and maintain SFMC operational standards and governance for in-platform usage including folder structure and naming conventions, data retention practices, and change/release coordination.
  • Track and report operational KPIs and provide regular visibility into platform performance, along with status updates and risk signals, to marketing and technology stakeholders.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, information systems, or another related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience in email marketing operations or marketing automation including campaign execution and delivery.
  • Minimum of 1 year of experience operating Salesforce Marketing Cloud (Email Studio, Journey Builder, Automation Studio, Contact Builder) including release/change management and production support.
  • Hands-on Salesforce Marketing Cloud experience building and maintaining Journey Builder, Automation Studio, Email Studio, Contact Builder, and Data Extensions.
  • Ability to write and troubleshoot SQL, write and use AMPscript
  • Validating data, audiences, and campaigns before deployment.
  • Supporting day-to-day platform operations and stability, including performing quality assurance, troubleshooting issues, and resolving problems.
  • Ability to partner effectively with technical teams such as systems, data, analytics, or technology groups.
  • Strong problem-solving skills, ability to think creatively and work through complex issues.
  • Strong organization, communication, and documentation skills.

Preferred

  • Training, supporting, or enabling marketers and platform users is a plus.
  • Creating documentation, office hours, user guides, or operational resources is a plus.
  • Experience with CloudPages, Marketing Cloud reporting, Data Cloud, Einstein, AI, or other advanced Salesforce capabilities is a plus.
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Ames, Iowa, USA
280 employees (20 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
5M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$118K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
25.7%
Direct
49.3%
Referral
18.9%
Social
2.2%
Paid
1.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~280

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
20 (7% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2