Associate Director, Email/SMS and CRM #4886

Menlo Park, CA (Hybrid)

$156K/yr – $207K/yrSenior Level12+ years expFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own email program governance for B2B and healthcare audiences while balancing compliance with aggressive optimization across Pardot, Marketing Cloud, and Paubox.

  • Own transactional and lifecycle email journeys for patient and provider segments.
  • Coordinate with Audience, Sales, and IT to improve deliverability, reporting, and attribution.
  • Lead data-driven testing and lead scoring to lift engagement and conversions while ensuring CAN-SPAM, GDPR, and TCPA compliance.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Expertise and ability to administer Pardot, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, and Paubox; provide strategic and tactical support to the Salesforce.com Administrator.
  • Execute all B2B, customer, patient, and provider-based email and SMS campaigns in collaboration with Audience team marketers.
  • Own product-oriented patient and provider transactional email journeys.
  • Demonstrate success across marketing automation platforms, including lead scoring based on audience behaviors; be results-focused.
  • Develop and manage tactical execution plans focused on the customer; drive engagement and meet key objectives.
  • Analyze email program performance metrics and optimize deliverability, opens, click-to-open, CTRs, opt-out rates, and conversions; build weekly/monthly reports.
  • Create and deploy different types of email journeys for Marketing and other business teams (Customer Experience, Sales, Finance, Medical Affairs).
  • Create UTM links following standard naming conventions for tracking and analytics.
  • Project management: planning projects, prioritization, and deadlines.
  • Ensure email templates perform across device types and comply with best practices and GRAIL compliance.

Requirements

  • 12+ years in an email management role serving B2B and B2C audiences using Salesforce tools (Marketing Cloud Account Engagement aka Pardot, Marketing Cloud, NEXT)
  • 5 years of experience managing a team
  • Bachelor’s Degree (Master's preferred)
  • 5 years of experience in healthcare marketing (pharma, med device, life sciences, or provider/health systems)
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills (including storytelling using data)
  • Deep experience in lead scoring based on audience behaviors
  • Keen attention to detail with brand stewardship
  • Strong data analysis skills; experience with A/B testing and KPI-driven improvements
  • Strong understanding of data privacy (CAN-SPAM, GDPR, TCPA)
  • Own all compliance and data governance for Email/SMS activities and platforms
  • Proficiency with basic HTML/CSS editing and email performance tools (e.g., Litmus)
  • Demonstrated ability to collaborate cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment
  • Self-starter who can lead and run projects end-to-end
  • Ability to serve as liaison between internal business and technical teams to satisfy requirements
  • Experience documenting complicated processes and using applications like Veeva for compliance/training

Preferred

  • A range of experience from startups to large brand email experience
  • Experience with an aspirational/emotional business where email content drove revenue and brand adoption
  • Health Cloud experience is nice to have
  • Familiarity with Mac and G-Suite
  • Experience with Salesforce Next
  • Experience with ABM best practices
  • Proficient with Tableau (preferred but not required)
  • Experience with Asana and JIRA (helpful)
  • Global and multi-product experience
  • Experience using AI to drive efficiency

Benefits

  • comprehensive and competitive benefits package
  • flexible time-off or vacation
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
  • medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • mindfulness programs
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