Email Marketing Specialist

Ithaca, MI (Remote)

$65K/yr – $76K/yrEntry Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 6 days ago

Job Summary

Own end-to-end email campaigns for alumni and donors, collaborating with channel leads and operations to implement integrated plans, measure results, and optimize production calendars and content workflows.

  • Design and execute signature and priority email campaigns while ensuring accurate tracking and accessibility.
  • Advise partners on best practices, design, and timelines to meet engagement goals.
  • Coordinate calendars and production timelines with cross-functional teams to maximize reach and ROI.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Design and build signature, solicitation, and sensitive priority email campaigns daily, especially those emails targeted to all alumni.
  • Be a team player and collaborate closely with our expert channel leads and marketing ops members to ensure effective integrated marketing plans.
  • Ensure proper coding to measure email results/ROI.
  • Be a consultant to partners for email best practices, strategies, and email design to increase channel effectiveness and execute plans based on timelines and deadlines. Building relationships and effective communication will be key to this role.
  • Contribute to marketing reports by determining return on investment for email campaigns and test campaigns designed to meet AAD engagement and donor goals. Monitor AAD audience engagement via open, click, unsubscribe rates, audience journeys, and interest-based marketing outcomes.
  • Oversee sending of AAD emails not built by email specialists. Ensure accuracy of the content, tracking to capture audience engagement, and accessibility requirements are fulfilled.
  • Assist in maintaining the AAD email calendar and developing production timelines for signature event emails, mass solicitations, and partner communications. Collaborate with partners across the division to schedule emails at appropriate times and achieve optimal results.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree and 2 to 4 years relevant experience or equivalent combination.
  • Familiarity with at least one major email marketing system required.
  • Excellent writing, communication, and editing skills, as well as accuracy and attention to detail, are essential.
  • Demonstrated success in a fast-moving multi-stakeholder environment, balancing multiple projects and priorities.
  • Demonstrated organizational skills required, along with strong interpersonal and public relations skills.

Benefits

  • Cornell receives national recognition as an award-winning workplace for our health, wellbeing, and sustainability.
  • Our benefits programs include comprehensive health care options, generous retirement contributions, access to wellness programs, and employee discounts with local and national retail brands. We invite you to follow this link to get more information about our benefits: Understand Your Benefits | Working at Cornell .
  • Our leave provisions include health and personal leave, three weeks of vacation and 13 holidays: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and the day after, and an end of the year winter break from December 25-January 1. To offer greater flexibility for observing faiths and traditions we also offer two additional floating holidays. Learn more about our generous leave provisions: Holiday and Accrued Time Off | Working at Cornell
  • Cornell's impressive educational benefits include tuition-free Extramural Study and Employee Degree Program, tuition aid for external education, and Cornell Children's Tuition Assistance Program. Learn more about our extensive educational benefits: Education Benefits | Working at Cornell
  • Follow this link to learn more about the Total Rewards of Working at Cornell: Total Rewards | Working at Cornell .
  • Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
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Cornell is a privately endowed research university and a partner of the State University of New York. As the federal land-grant institution in New York State, we have a responsibility—unique within the Ivy League—to make contributions in all fields of knowledge in a manner that prioritizes public engagement to help improve the quality of life in our state, the nation, the world.

Ithaca, New York, USA
20K employees (779 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$65K/yr – $76K/yr

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Funding

Total Funding
$14.6M
Last Raise
$12.1M
Grant, 2 months ago

Funding History

  • Jan 2026
    Grant
  • Jan 2022
    Grant • $12.1M
  • Jan 2018
    Grant • $2.5M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
18.3M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$1.7M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
52.3%
Direct
39.1%
Referral
7.2%
Social
0.5%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~19.8K

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Email Marketing Specialist

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