Email Marketing Manager

District of Columbia, USA (Hybrid)

$104K/yr – $115K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 9 days ago

Job Summary

Owns end-to-end digital communications and outreach, from strategy through execution, across multiple channels, while managing digital platforms and partnerships to drive brand equity and engagement.

  • Owns end-to-end digital communications and outreach strategies.
  • Drives channel optimization, performance tracking, and cross-team collaboration.
  • Manages vendors and strategic partnerships to deliver campaigns on time.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Designs and implements communications and outreach strategies tailored for target audiences, digital channels, and strategic objectives that inform, educate, and influence both internal and external audiences.
  • Manages the organization's digital properties. Supports and manages the overall strategic direction of organizational digital platforms. Optimizes online channels against key performance indicators and makes data-informed decisions.
  • Oversees content creation for various digital platforms. Leads efforts to identify and document strategies for campaigns, working with multiple business units. Provides analyses and recommendations on digital strategies that align with organizational initiatives and goals.
  • Identify appropriate channels. Designs campaigns to meet specific and varied business unit objectives. Tracks performance and implements necessary changes.
  • Works with internal and external teams to develop and execute digital marketing strategies that increase organizational brand equity and build affinity and engagement among programs.
  • Builds and manages strategic partnerships across the enterprise to enhance business unit effectiveness on digital and social channels.
  • Tracks and measure results and KPIs and adjusts tactics, accordingly. Keeps abreast of the latest digital trends and best practices to inform digital marketing strategies, as well as to aid internal knowledge sharing.
  • Provides exceptional client service by developing timelines to meet project commitments and ensuring deliverables from across the organization and external partners are on time.
  • Develops and maintains relationships with internal clients, ensuring a solid understanding of their objectives, developing plans to achieve them across channels (e.g., Email, SMS, Paid Search, etc.), proactively surfacing new opportunities, and productively resolving any challenges.
  • Identifies vendors best suited to advance organizational goals and proactively manage vendor relationships to ensure successful completion of projects, obligations, and expectations

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in email marketing, including campaign strategy, email design, audience segmentation, and lifecycle marketing.
  • Hands-on experience with enterprise email marketing and automation platforms such as Salesforce Marketing Cloud, HubSpot, Marketo, Pardot, Campaign Monitor, or similar tools.
  • Proven ability to create compelling, brand-aligned email content with outstanding copy, excellent subject lines, engaging visuals, and conversion-focused calls to action.
  • Expertise in audience segmentation, lead nurturing, personalized customer journeys, and automated lifecycle campaigns (welcome, retention, and re-engagement).
  • Strong analytical skills with experience tracking KPIs, developing performance reports, and leveraging A/B testing insights to optimize campaign results.
  • Deep understanding of email deliverability, sender reputation, bounce management, and inbox placement best practices, with experience leveraging generative AI tools to enhance email production, testing, and optimization.
  • Proficiency with creative and design tools including Photoshop, InDesign, Adobe Acrobat Pro, Canva, or equivalent platforms to develop email assets.
  • Exceptional attention to detail, project management, and cross-functional collaboration and culture building skills.
  • AARP will not sponsor an employment visa for this position at this time.
  • Regular and reliable job attendance

Benefits

  • AARP offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including a 401(k); 100% company-funded pension plan; health, dental, and vision plans; life insurance; paid time off to include company and individual holidays, vacation, sick, caregiving, and parental leave; performance-based and peer-based recognition and tuition reimbursement.
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AARP

3.9 Glassdoor

What we do might surprise you!AARP is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, social mission organization with a membership of nearly 38 million. Our aim is to disrupt outdated stereotypes about aging, turn goals and dreams into real possibilities, and fight for the issues that matter most to people 50-plus, their families and communities. Our social impact work in health security, financial resilience, and personal fulfillment is at the heart of what we do. With offices in every state plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, we live and work in the communities we serve. We listen to what people need and want, and offer programs, services and trusted information that are directly relevant to them. State offices also work with our national office to amplify our members’ voices at the local and federal levels to help empower people 50 and above to choose how they live and work as they age. From being a force for positive change to producing the nation’s largest-circulation magazine – the full scope of what we do might surprise you! That’s why people who are excited by unique opportunities and galvanized by meaningful challenges come to work at AARP.

Founded in 1958
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
6.5K employees (823 in marketing)
72% recommend to a friend
72% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$104K/yr – $115K/yr

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Funding

Last Raise
Grant, 7 years ago

Funding History

  • Jul 2019
    Grant

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
42.7M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$4.6M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
23.5%
Direct
71.1%
Referral
3.8%
Social
0.7%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~6.5K

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Email Marketing Manager

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