Director, Marketing Automation

Boston, MA (On-site)

$151K/yr – $167K/yrDirector/Executive8+ years expFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own and lead the Salesforce Marketing Cloud program, shaping strategy, calendars, targeting, campaigns, measurement, and team leadership to deliver compliant, measurable outreach to healthcare professionals.

  • Own strategy and day-to-day leadership
  • Align with cross-functional teams
  • Define metrics and optimize campaigns

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the strategy, operating model, and day-to-day leadership of the Salesforce Marketing Cloud marketing automation platform. Ensure the platform supports institutional priorities through planned, compliant, and measurable communications to referring physicians and other healthcare professionals.
  • Establish and maintain a rolling communications calendar that translates priority topics into a sequenced campaign roadmap with defined objectives, audiences, cadence, and success measures. Balance competing short-term requests while maintaining a coherent, consistent audience experience and alignment with broader marketing priorities.
  • Define and continuously refine targeting approaches using relevant audience attributes such as specialty, geography, referral history, and treatment center affinity. Set business rules for segmentation, dynamic content, and personalization to support relevant, consistent outreach and appropriate use of data.
  • Lead campaign enablement and execution workflows from pre-send testing through scheduling, deployment readiness, and post-send review. Oversee consistent execution practices, quality assurance, and operational processes that support accurate targeting and reliable outbound communications.
  • Partner closely with Physician Marketing, the Integrated Strategy and Program Management Team, the Physician Liaison Team, the Continuing Professional Education Team and the Enterprise Web Solutions and Digital Platforms Team to align messaging, timing, and execution and optimize platform configuration and capabilities. Coordinate with clinical, content, physician liaison, analytics, and technology partners to support campaign development, and integrated outreach.
  • Define and report key performance metrics such as email volume, deliverability, engagement, segment performance and correlations with referral volume. Use analytics and testing to optimize campaigns, improve templates and journeys, and partner with technology teams on platform functionality, data imports, and future enhancements.
  • Supervises staff. Hires, develops, and manages staff to achieve organizational goals. Sets clear expectations, delivers feedback, and monitors performance for quality, efficiency, and compliance with policies and procedures. Mentors staff, fosters career growth, and cultivates a positive and productive work environment.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree required, Master's degree preferred. An area of study in Marketing, Communications, Digital Marketing, Business, Information Systems, Data Science or a related field preferred.
  • 8 years of progressive experience in digital marketing, CRM, or marketing automation, including demonstrated ownership of email campaign strategy, execution, and performance required.
  • 3 years of management experience required.
  • Experience implementing and/or operating digital marketing platforms (e.g., Salesforce Marketing Cloud, HubSpot or similar platforms) in a complex, matrixed organization preferred.
  • Healthcare, academic medicine, biopharma or similarly regulated environments preferred.
  • License/Certification/Registration Required
  • - None required.
  • - Salesforec Certification(s) related to Marketing Automation/CRM or other email marketing certification(s) preferred.

Preferred

  • Master’s degree preferred.
  • Experience implementing and/or operating digital marketing platforms (e.g., Salesforce Marketing Cloud, HubSpot or similar platforms) in a complex, matrixed organization preferred.
  • Healthcare, academic medicine, biopharma or similarly regulated environments preferred.
  • Salesforce Certification(s) related to Marketing Automation/CRM or other email marketing certification(s) preferred.
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Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
487.9K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$26K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
53.4%
Direct
35.4%
Referral
7.2%
Social
3%
Paid
0.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~8.7K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
144 (2% of company)
Median Career Experience
17 years
Median Tenure
4.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Funding

Total Funding
$88.1M
Last Raise
$20M
Grant, 4 months ago

Funding History

  • Nov 2025
    Grant • $20M
  • May 2025
    Grant • $1M
  • Sep 2024
    Grant • $500K

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