Senior Retention Specialist, CRM

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$60K/yr – $80K/yrSenior Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Own the design, execution, and health of lifecycle campaigns across lead capture, activation, loyalty, and win-back, with hands-on responsibilities for segmentation, ESP setup, deliverability, testing, analytics, and collaboration with Copy & Content to drive client KPI growth.

  • Lead end-to-end lifecycle programs from concept to QA
  • Own technical ESP setup, integrations, and deliverability
  • Build and maintain reporting for client KPI reviews

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Build and QA the flows, automations, and campaigns that run your client's program — from lead capture and welcome through activation, loyalty, repeat purchase, and win-back.
  • Implement the segmentation and audience logic behind the calendar, and build the dynamic content that makes personalization work at volume.
  • Own the technical setup and health of the client's ESP instance: integrations, data feeds, event tracking, templates, and modules.
  • Monitor and own channel performance and deliverability, escalating and fixing issues before they affect the program.
  • Troubleshoot anything that misfires — a flow that does not trigger, a segment that under-populates, a template that breaks in Outlook — and document the fix.
  • QA every build end to end before launch: logic, rendering, links, personalization, suppression.
  • Design and run the testing roadmap with your Associate Director, and report results honestly.
  • Partner with the Copy & Content Specialist to get copy and creative into the build accurately and on schedule.
  • Build and maintain the reporting your Associate Director needs for client KPI reviews.

Requirements

  • 3–5+ years of hands-on lifecycle, CRM, or email marketing execution, with deep expertise in at least one enterprise-grade ESP — Braze, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Iterable, Customer.io , or comparable.
  • You have built complex, event-triggered journeys from scratch: multi-branch logic, wait steps, conditional splits, holdouts, and cross-channel orchestration across email, SMS, push, and in-app.
  • You are fluent in advanced segmentation — behavioral and product-event based, computed attributes, dynamic and personalized content — and you have scaled a program where segmentation drove a real increase in send volume.
  • You have built the funnel that matters here: lead capture forms and opt-in logic, welcome series, first-conversion sequences, and subscription activation journeys.
  • You have implemented loyalty, rewards, and win-back programs, and you treat driving repeat purchase and long-term value as a core outcome rather than a nice-to-have.
  • You own deliverability as a discipline: domain warming and authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC, BIMI), sending reputation, list hygiene, sunset policies, and what to do when a list grows very fast.
  • You own the channel KPIs — open, click, click-to-open, conversion, deliverability, bounce, spam complaints, unsubscribe — and you can diagnose a drop in any of them.
  • You are comfortable with HTML and CSS for email, and you know how to build templates and modules that render correctly across clients. Liquid, Handlebars, AMPscript, or a similar templating language is a strong plus.
  • You understand data flows into the ESP: API-based events, webhooks, ETL or CDP integrations, and product event streams. You can hold a technical conversation with a client's engineering team.
  • You are a systematic troubleshooter — you isolate variables, you check the data before the theory, and you document what you find.

Benefits

  • - Unlimited PTO + US holidays: Rebooting is part of the work. Take the time you need to stay sharp.
  • - Remote-First Culture: Many roles are fully remote. Employees based in or near our New York or Lisbon HQs are expected to work hybrid with weekly in-office time. Hub locations include the Brazil and Spain.
  • - Health & Wellness: Company-sponsored medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • - Finances, growth, and retirement: Darkroom offers a robust 401(k) program with company match and profit-sharing opportunities to help you save and grow as the company grows.
  • - Parental Leave: Flexible parental leave to support new parents during this important transition.
  • - Growth: Our interdisciplinary model gives every Darkroomer exposure far beyond their core role. Grow your skills, expand your influence, and stay at the forefront of the industry.
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Darkroom

Darkroom is a technology-driven growth marketing firm focused on growth-stage consumer companies. We were founded in 2017 out of a conviction that the iconic ad agencies of tomorrow would look very different. Darkroom is a human services firm built on a universal AI commerce layer called Matter. Our model deploys a unique blend of senior, human resources enriched by an agentic technology stack that enhances output, efficiency, and revenue generation for our clients. Our team has been responsible for billions of dollars in trackable revenue across the various e-commerce marketplace, direct-to-consumer, and social commerce programs under management. Using research aggregated across these engagements, we accelerate results for our portfolio by developing high-impact digital strategies that unlock gateways to revenue growth, transform marketing operations, and prioritize profitability.What started as a boutique design agency evolved into one of the fastest-growing private companies in America (Inc. 5000), one of the most successful results-driven performance media agencies of the 2020s (Varos), and esteemed recognition by Forbes 30 Under 30 for our founders’ contribution in Marketing & Advertising (Forbes).SERVICES:Darkroom strictly focuses on developing the next-generation of digital services. We choose to add impact in the areas where brands presently need them most and over-index on e-commerce marketplace, direct-to-consumer, and social commerce services that deliver trackable revenue. Core Darkroom service verticals include E-commerce Marketplace Management, Retail Media, Paid Media Management, Performance Creative, Social Commerce, and Customer Retention, among others. We are the only performance agency with a design-grade creative team and a certified Chief Creative Officer. These creative sensibilities are infused into our growth marketing.Darkroom is sister to Matter, our commerce technology layer.

Founded in 2017
New York, New York, USA
125 employees (59 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$60K/yr – $80K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
33 (26% of company)
Median Career Experience
5 years
Median Tenure
5.7 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
6

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
23.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
34.6%
Direct
47.4%
Referral
9.6%
Social
7.2%
Paid
1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~125
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Senior Retention Specialist, CRM

Darkroom · New York City, NY · Hybrid