Email Marketing Specialist

USA (Remote)

$33/hr – $40/hrMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own email program lifecycle for IFM communications, driving template creation, deliverability, authentication, and personalization across courses and memberships; ensure compliance, robust analytics, and cross-functional calendar planning.

  • Channel ownership: email templates, automation, and workflow design in HubSpot.
  • Quality and compliance: deliverability, authentication, privacy rules, and cross-department coordination.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Create email templates for single sends, automated emails and workflow processes for courses, membership, certification, partnerships, and other IFM programs using Hubspot; implement HTML code when needed.
  • Track, analyze and report on the email channel’s performance.
  • Test and ensure email readability and compatibility on a variety of devices, mobile and desktop, and email clients (Gmail, Outlook, etc.)
  • Maintain authentication protocols including SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and domain alignment across email programs.
  • Maintain and update the email communication calendar, collaborate with other departments to plan.
  • Ensure compliance with global and domestic email and data privacy regulations, including CAN-SPAM, GDPR, and emerging state-level privacy laws, in partnership with Legal and IT as needed.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to schedule content promotion and build layouts, including graphics, for weekly newsletter across target audiences.
  • Apply dynamic content and personalization logic within newsletters based on subscriber attributes and behaviors.
  • Ensure accurate email tracking and attribution across analytics platforms, including GA4, by managing UTM standards, event tracking, and data handoff requirements.
  • Monitor discrepancies between email platform metrics and downstream analytics and recommend corrective actions.

Requirements

  • Associate’s Degree in Marketing, Communications, PR, Business, or related field, or equivalent experience required.
  • 3+ years’ experience with email marketing, including deliverability management, compliance standards, marketing automation, email template styling and coding, HTML, lead nurturing, and web analytics.
  • Highly analytical and able to derive meaning from data through A/B testing and email optimization.
  • Familiarity with GA4 event-based measurement and email attribution best practices.
  • Ability to translate evolving platform and technical requirements into operational email practices.
  • Working knowledge of email authentication, sender reputation, and inbox placement concepts.
  • Experience collaborating cross-functionally with Data, IT, and Legal stakeholders.
  • Produce or conceptualize elements of innovation, utility, and imagination towards project improvement, insight, or reflection.
  • Strives to uphold IFM’s Core Employee Values to build a culture of trust and respect.
  • Attention to Detail: Ability to be detail oriented and devote focus and a critical lens to produce high-quality work.

Preferred

  • HubSpot strongly preferred
  • Adobe Creative Suite (preferred)
  • MS Dynamics CRM

Benefits

  • National healthcare plan coverage offered!
  • National dental and vision plans!
  • Paid employee life and disability insurance!
  • Paid employee assistance program!
  • Two weeks’ vacation and two weeks’ sick leave accrued annually for new employees!
  • Monthly work-from-home stipend!
  • 401(k) with generous contribution!
  • 14 paid holidays annually!
  • Meeting-free Tuesday afternoons!
  • Department budgeted job skills training!
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The Institute for Functional Medicine

The Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and has been the leading voice for functional medicine for more than 30 years. IFM supports the confident and competent practice of functional medicine through high-quality ACCME-accredited education, certification, partnerships across medical disciplines, and advocating on behalf of functional medicine patients and practitioners around the globe.To find a functional medicine practitioner in your area, visit www.ifm.org/find-a-practitioner.

Founded in 1991
Federal Way, Washington, USA
210 employees (28 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
269.5K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$6.5K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
54.5%
Direct
33.6%
Referral
2.1%
Social
3.8%
Paid
1.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~210

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
24 (11% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$30K
Last Raise
$30K
Grant, 12 months ago

Funding History

  • Jul 2025
    Grant • $30K

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