Email Marketing Senior Strategist

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

$87K/yr – $94K/yrSenior Level5+ years expTemporary

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive end-to-end email marketing operations, from strategy and segmentation to execution and analytics across multiple streams.

  • Must-have: 5+ years in email marketing or related roles
  • Standout: Experience migrating platforms, building self-service dashboards, or leading cross-functional analytics initiatives

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Work with email stakeholders/content strategists to drive strategy to increase engagement and acquisition across all email streams; including re-engagement, drip campaigns, transactional emails and lifecycle marketing
  • Lead meetings with stakeholders to develop, set up, and launch email campaigns with emphasis on content strategy, project management, customer segmentation, contact strategy, execution & analysis
  • Manage campaign workflow through the Academy’s project management platform, ensuring milestones are met and campaign is executed on time
  • Build, edit, and test email campaigns using the Academy’s custom JSON email template engine
  • Create audience segments to match stakeholder requirements by using pre-existing SQL queries (that may require minor modification) and other tools as necessary
  • Monitor HTML, CSS, and other performance issues to maintain email template functionality
  • Manage email marketing and project management platforms, including set-up of user accounts, lists, tables and fields, segmentation, and automation of applicable campaigns and processes
  • As necessary, assist the Sr. Manager, Marketing Operations, and external agency with migration from current email platform to forthcoming email & marketing automation platform
  • Assist on key analytics projects that require coordination with technical teams
  • Assess Academy email KPIs and adjust/update as necessary to align with industry guidelines

Requirements

  • Minimum of 5 years’ experience in email marketing or related roles
  • Bachelor or Associates degree in related field preferred and not required
  • Experience implementing a project management framework
  • Proficiency with cloud-based project management tools like Jira, Wrike, Asana, or Basecamp
  • At least 3 years’ experience using a top-tier Email Service Provider and/or marketing automation platform (e.g. HubSpot, Iterable, Marketo, Marketing Cloud, Mailjet, etc.)
  • Preferred: direct experience with Mailjet and HubSpot platforms
  • Advanced knowledge of HTML and CSS
  • Basic proficiency with SQL
  • Preferred: basic proficiency with JavaScript and JSON
  • Proven knowledge of email marketing trends and willingness and ability to adopt new technologies, languages and or frameworks to keep up evolving best practices

Preferred

  • Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams across marketing, product, and data science.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits based on the hours per week worked.
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San Francisco, California, USA
774 employees (121 in marketing)

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