Manager, Email & SMS

Milwaukee, WI (On-site)

$114K/yr – $171K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 5 days ago

Job Summary

Own and scale email and SMS/MMS programs across strategy, segmentation, and ops while leading a cross-functional team to drive growth, engagement, and revenue.

  • Own channel vision, KPIs, and roadmaps
  • Partner across Marketing, Product, and Digital teams
  • Leverage data, segmentation, and automation for personalized experiences

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead, manage, & develop a team of email & SMS/MMS specialists
  • Set the strategic vision and growth roadmap for email and SMS/MMS as high-value owned channels
  • Continue to grow a valuable, engaged subscriber base that converts to leads, sales, and long-term brand loyalty
  • Define and drive content strategies for email and SMS/MMS that increase perceived subscriber value, working directly with internal content partners and channel stakeholders
  • Own channel KPIs, measurement frameworks, and reporting tied to both engagement and commercial outcomes
  • Use post-open and post-click analytics to understand downstream customer behavior and inform future audience segmentation and messaging strategies
  • Lead customer segmentation, preference management, and data integration strategies that enable personalization at scale
  • Partner with Marketing, Commercial, Product, and Digital teams to plan, execute, and optimize campaigns across customer journeys
  • Build and maintain channel roadmaps, operational playbooks, and technical specifications
  • Collaborate with platform and technical teams to expand ESP and messaging platform capabilities and integrations

Requirements

  • Education Requirements: High School Diploma or Equivalent Required
  • Education Specifications: Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Communications, Advertising, Business Administration, or related area is preferred
  • Experience Requirements: 10+ years of relevant experience in related roles
  • Experience Requirements: Minimum 5 years in a management role
  • Experience Requirements: Salesforce & Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC)
  • Experience Requirements: Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills
  • Experience Requirements: Experience working in agile and lean environments
  • Experience Requirements: Impeccable facilitation, written and oral communication skills, along with effective team leadership skills, with a focus on developing and nurturing top talent
  • Experience Requirements: Demonstrated sound ability to lead, collaborate, and gain results through the influence of peers and senior leaders, with a proven ability to work in a highly matrixed organization
  • Experience Requirements: Solution-oriented with a strong sense of urgency for the prevention of and timely and effective resolution to issues if they do emerge

Preferred

  • Experience in omnichannel, digital marketing, long lead lifecycle & nurture campaigns will be a bonus.
  • Familiarity with the platforms and tools is a plus: Adobe Analytics & digital channel measurement, CRM, email trigger and customization solutions, Customer Data Platforms, enterprise data environments

Benefits

  • We offer an inclusive compensation package for all full-time salaried employees including, but not limited to, annual bonus programs, health insurance benefits, a 401k program, onsite fitness centers and employee stores, employee discounts on products and accessories, and more. Learn more about Harley-Davidson here .

Salaries

Posted range

$114K/yr – $171K/yr

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Manager, Email & SMS

Harley-Davidson · Milwaukee, WI · On-site