Email Marketing Specialist

Chicago, IL (Remote)

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Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive personalized email marketing for 55places by building behavioral segments and automations across the buyer lifecycle.

  • Own automation workflows in HubSpot/Drip across welcome, nurture, re-engagement, and handoff programs.
  • Must-have: hands-on HubSpot/Drip automation and deliverability know-how.
  • Standout: access to rich first-party behavioral data from millions of active adult property searches.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Personalization & Segmentation
  • Build and maintain behavioral segmentation models using first-party data, including search activity, geographic preferences, community saves, price range, time on site, and content engagement.
  • Create dynamic content rules within email templates that adapt messaging, images, and CTAs based on subscriber attributes and behavior — no two active adult buyers are identical.
  • Develop audience segments specific to distinct buyer profiles: the actively searching retiree, the pre-retirement planner 3–5 years out, and the adult child researching communities for a parent.t
  • Partner with product and data teams to expand the behavioral signals available for targeting, and document segment definitions so the broader team can use them
  • Monitor segment performance over time and refine definitions as buyer behavior evolves — especially as Gen X begins to enter the active adult audience in larger numbers.
  • Marketing Automation (HubSpot & Drip)
  • Build, maintain, and optimize automated email workflows across the full buyer lifecycle: welcome series, search-based community alerts, nurture sequences, re-engagement flows, and agent handoff program.s
  • Configure trigger logic based on behavioral events — property saves, community page views, search frequency, guide downloads, form submissions — and test timing, branching logic, and send cadence.ce
  • Own the integration between the 55places platform and email sending infrastructure, ensuring behavioral data flows cleanly into automation triggers. ers
  • Document every workflow with clear logic maps so programs are auditable, maintainable, and improvable without requiring a full rebuild.
  • Audit existing automations quarterly for logic decay, stale content, and missed optimization opportunities — then fix them.
  • List Hygiene & Deliverability
  • Own sender reputation health across all 55places sending domains, monitoring daily via Google Postmaster Tools and Amazon SES dashboard.s
  • Maintain hard bounce rates below 0.5% and spam complaint rates below 0.1% through proactive list hygiene: suppression management, bounce processing, inactive subscriber handling, and spam trap avoidance.ce
  • Run quarterly list-cleaning cycles — identify unengaged subscribers, execute re-engagement sequences, and suppress those who do not respond before they damage the sender's reputation.ion
  • Ensure all commercial email programs comply with CAN-SPAM requirements, include a functional one-click unsubscribe, and honor opt-outs within required timeframes.
  • Conduct inbox placement testing using tools such as GlockApps or similar before major campaign launches, and maintain a working knowledge of SPF, DKIM, and DMARC configuration.
  • Flag anomalies — sudden complaint spikes, unusual bounce patterns, domain blocklist appearances — and escalate or resolve quickly
  • Analytics & Performance Reporting - Build and maintain weekly and monthly email performance dashboards covering open rate, click-through rate, conversion to lead, lead quality scores, unsubscribe rate, bounce rate, and revenue attribution - Run structured A/B tests on subject lines, preview text, send timing, content personalization, and CTAs — document methodology, track statistical significance, and systematically apply learnings - Analyze performance by segment, lifecycle stage, geography, and buyer type to surface actionable insights rather than just reporting numbers - Develop email-specific benchmarks for the 55+ audience (industry benchmarks skew toward younger demographics and do not reflect this audience's behavior accurately) - Present findings clearly to the marketing team and contribute performance context to broader channel discussions
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Neighborhoods.com

Neighborhoods.com is the parent company of 55places.com, 55places Mortgage, and its product namesake: neighborhoods.com. Together, our specialized online real estate marketplaces make a difference in the way people buy and sell their home.Get to know our core values.My work changes lives.We are guiding people through one of the most important decisions of their life. We are helping people find a community and home that will bring them happiness and improve their lives. We are creating opportunity for our partner agents and fellow employees to succeed and grow.The culture starts with me.It begins on the inside. I make this a fun and enriching place to work and I create the environment I want to work in. If the culture does not meet my expectations, I am empowered to make a change.Details matter.Curiosity is a virtue. Seek. Understand. Be thorough. Expect the best from my teammates and myself in everything we produce.Do the right thing.We value authenticity, caring, and being good citizens. I make no decisions without first considering if my mother would approve.Kaizen. No Compromizin’.We believe in constant improvement and growth, personally and professionally. Every process in our business has opportunity to improve and I strive to make those changes.If it is to be, it is up to me.I’m smart, resourceful, and empowered to make it happen. I’m enthusiastic, persistent, not afraid to take risks and work harder and smarter than our competitors.

Founded in 2015
Chicago, Illinois, USA
44 employees (9 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
256.2K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$293
Traffic Source Mix
Search
61.2%
Direct
34.2%
Referral
3.5%
Social
0.4%
Paid
0.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~45

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
8 (18% of company)

Funding

Last Raise
Private Equity, 7 years ago

Funding History

  • Jul 2019
    Private Equity