Digital Audience Operations Specialist

Arlington, VA (Hybrid)

$81K/yr – $85K/yrMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 21 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own the end-to-end email program from campaign deployment to performance insights, audience management, asset updates, and automation across channels.

  • Campaign deployment and testing across the email platform
  • Performance analysis and optimization recommendations
  • Audience list management and segmentation

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Campaign Execution & Deployment: Execute the development, testing, and deployment of email campaigns in our email platform, managing the process from proofing through deployment. Partner with marketing teams to align messaging, creative, audience segmentation, and campaign workflows.
  • Email Performance Reporting: Monitor and report on key email marketing metrics including deliverability, open rates, click-through rates, conversions, and unsubscribes. Analyze campaign performance and share insights and optimization recommendations with email & marketing leadership.
  • List Management: Maintain contact lists, tags, and segments to ensure database accuracy. Support database hygiene, subscription preferences, suppression lists, and audience segmentation.
  • Asset Management: Manage, update, and test email templates and reusable content blocks, ensuring consistency with brand standards, accessibility best practices, and campaign requirements.
  • Email Automation: Support the development, testing and maintenance of automated email campaigns, customer journeys, and triggered communications within the email marketing platform.

Requirements

  • Interpersonal, communication, presentation, and relationship-building skills.
  • Multitasking, project management, planning, organization, and customer service skills.
  • Analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Creativity.
  • Time management skills.
  • Understanding of email marketing best practices, customer journey automation, audience segmentation, personalization, A/B testing, and digital marketing strategies.
  • Ability to coordinate messaging, timing, and execution across multiple digital channels.
  • Familiarity with Higher Logic or a comparable email marketing automation platform (e.g., HubSpot, ActiveCampaign, Mailchimp, Marketo, Klaviyo, Salesforce Marketing Cloud). Familiarity with email campaign creation, audience segmentation, automation, reporting, template management, and list management.
  • and Microsoft Office Suite. Knowledge of Association Management Systems (AMS) and Content Management Systems (CMS) is a plus.
  • 2+ years of hands-on experience supporting or executing email marketing campaigns, managing email marketing platforms, marketing automation, or digital marketing initiatives.

Preferred

  • Knowledge of Association Management Systems (AMS) and Content Management Systems (CMS) is a plus.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Comprehensive benefits
  • Hybrid workplace
  • Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Short-Term & Long-Term Disability Insurance
  • Profit Sharing 401(k) Plan
  • Defined Benefit Pension Plan
  • Health Savings Account
  • Flexible Spending Account
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American Retirement Association

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Founded in 1966 as the American Society of Pension Actuaries (ASPPA), the American Retirement Association (ARA) is a non-profit professional organization that has a long and storied reputation of educating retirement plan professionals and creating a framework of policy that gives every working American the ability to have a comfortable retirement. Comprised of five premier retirement industry associations – the American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries (ASPPA), the American Society of Enrolled Actuaries (ASEA), the National Association of Plan Advisors (NAPA), the National Tax-deferred Savings Association (NTSA), and the Plan Sponsor Council of America (PSCA) – the American Retirement Association’s 20,000+ members include business owners, actuaries, consultants, administrators, insurance professionals, financial advisors, accountants, attorneys, and human resource managers.

Founded in 1966
Arlington, Virginia, USA
84 employees (17 in marketing)
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Salaries

Posted range

$81K/yr – $85K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

The middle of this range ($83K) is in line with the median base salary for Marketing Operations Specialist roles in the United States ($80K).

Marketing Operations Specialist median pay in the United States

$80K/yr

Most pay falls between $70K and $88K. Based on 82 salaries.

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
13 (15% of company)
Median Tenure
2.9 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
8K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
9.4%
Direct
60.4%
Referral
21.2%
Social
1.5%
Paid
2.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~84

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Digital Audience Operations Specialist

American Retirement Association · Arlington, VA · Hybrid