Manager, Growth Marketing Platforms

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$70K/yr – $85K/yrManager2+ years expFull time

Posted 2 days ago

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Job Summary

Own the end-to-end email and SMS campaign operations, including QA, scheduling, and live-traffic monitoring, across acquisition and retention programs. Lead setup of newsletters and lifecycle journeys, testing, and real-time issue resolution. Key workstreams include deliverability and performance optimization, data hygiene, compliance, and partner coordination with editorial, product, and data teams.

  • Campaign orchestration and QA
  • Deliverability and compliance coordination

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Oversee day-to-day email and SMS campaign operations, ensuring flawless execution and timely delivery.
  • Build custom user selections and other connected programs for enhanced targeting.
  • Scope, build, and launch specific acquisition and retention campaigns, including blast and journey-based use cases (e.g., winback, onboarding, high affinity user flows).
  • Own QA workflows, including link validation, image rendering, data mapping, triggering effectiveness, journey flows, preview testing, and multi-device checks.
  • Manage scheduling, batching, throttling, and send-time logic to optimize throughput (including MPS requirements).
  • Ensure proper setup of newsletters, lifecycle journeys, real-time alerts, and triggered communications.
  • Set up or review A/B testing strategies and coordinate rollout of new templates with partners.
  • Monitor real-time send statuses, error queues, and fallback handling to ensure campaigns fire as expected.
  • Monitor platform health, integration failures, and journey errors; drive real-time response and root-cause investigation.
  • Support advanced capabilities including segmentation, dynamic content rendering, conditional logic, and real-time triggers.

Requirements

  • 2-3 years of experience in email, SMS, and/or mobile app messaging operations, marketing technology, or digital platform management.
  • Knowledge of ESPs and notification systems.
  • Strong project management and problem-solving skills, with the ability to juggle multiple priorities.
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills to work across editorial, product, data, and strategy teams.
  • Experience managing vendor relationships and holding partners accountable.

Benefits

  • in addition, People Inc. provides to employees (and their eligible family members) a variety of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, unlimited paid time off (PTO), adoption or surrogate assistance, donation matching, tuition reimbursement, basic life insurance, basic accidental death & dismemberment, supplemental life insurance, supplemental accident insurance, commuter benefits, short term and long term disability, health savings and flexible spending accounts, family care benefits, a generous 401K savings plan with a company match program, 10-12 paid holidays annually, and generous paid parental leave (birthing and non-birthing parents), all of which may vary depending on the specific nature of your employment with People Inc. and your work location. We also offer voluntary benefits such as pet insurance, accident, critical and hospital indemnity health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance.
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People Inc.

People Inc. (formerly Dotdash Meredith) is the largest digital and print publisher in America. More than 175 million people trust us each month to help them find inspiration, make decisions, and take action. People Inc.'s more than 40 iconic brands include PEOPLE, Food & Wine, Travel + Leisure, Better Homes & Gardens, Verywell, Allrecipes, REAL SIMPLE, Investopedia, and Southern Living. People Inc. is based in New York City and is an operating business of IAC (NASDAQ: IAC).

New York, New York, USA
1.8K employees (753 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
191K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
12.7%
Direct
61.6%
Referral
20%
Social
3.2%
Paid
2.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1.8K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
606 (33% of company)
Median Career Experience
17 years
Median Tenure
1.3 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
20

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