
Email Marketing Specialist II
Payscale
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $78,300 - $117,450 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Write compelling, concise, and conversion-focused email copy across the entire customer journey—from cold outbound messaging to nurture programs, onboarding, product education, re-engagement, and retention.
- Develop high-performing subject lines, value props, and CTAs optimized for opens, clicks, replies, and conversions.
- Tailor voice, tone, and messaging to specific audiences, lifecycle stages, and buyer personas.
- Maintain an updated content library for evergreen and outbound sequences.
- Collaborate with Product Marketing to align email copy with product positioning, key use cases, launches, competitive differentiation, and buyer pain points.
- Collaborate closely with the Content team to align email copy with supporting assets (blogs, guides, webinars, case studies, product content) and ensure consistent messaging across channels.
- Own the performance of email campaigns by proactively analyzing open rates, click-through rates, reply rates (for outbound), conversion metrics, and engagement trends to surface insights and opportunities for improvement.
- Build and manage a structured A/B testing agenda—testing messaging, subject lines, personalization, send times, and formatting.
- Regularly bring data-backed insights, recommendations, and test ideas to Demand Gen Managers, providing clear updates on what’s working, what’s not, and what should change.
- Work closely with MOPs to ensure dashboards and reports reflect accurate, actionable metrics.
- Proactively partner with Marketing Operations to deep-dive into program, sequence, and lifecycle performance – identifying trends, diagnosing issues, and uncovering opportunities across channels and audiences.
- Serve as the internal expert on email deliverability, sender reputation, authentication concepts, and inbox placement.
- Monitor list hygiene, help enforce opt-in and compliance standards, and advise on segmentation practices that support high deliverability.
- Partner with MOPs and RevOps on domain reputation, warm-up rhythms, monitoring tools, and risk mitigation when issues arise.
- Stay up-to-date on industry changes—spam filtering updates, privacy changes, and new best practices.
- Define goals, messaging strategy, and content for evergreen lifecycle programs including welcome/onboarding, product education, upsell/cross-sell, churn prevention, and win-back.
- Identify behavior-based triggers, qualification rules, segmentation logic, and recommended cadence for each journey.
- Collaborate with Product Marketing and Customer Success to keep lifecycle content fresh and aligned with new features or priorities.
- Partner closely with MOPs to translate requirements into automated workflows and ensure accurate logic, timing, and tracking.
- Develop email sequences and messaging frameworks for SDR outbound motions, including cold outreach, follow-ups, event sequences, and persona-based plays.
- Enable SDRs with variants of email copy tailored to industry, persona, intent level, and funnel stage.
- Partner with SDR & Demand Leadership to review reply rates, meeting set rates, and pipeline generated from outbound email.
- Provide ongoing optimization, testing, and performance coaching for outbound messaging.
- Manage and track email requests and campaign workstreams using Asana (workflow management system), ensuring clear intake, prioritization, deadlines, and approvals from start to finish.
- Support Prospect and Customer Demand Generation Managers by translating campaign goals into clear email copy deliverables and execution plans.
- Ensure smooth handoffs between Demand Gen, Content, and MOPs to keep email production moving efficiently.
Requirements
- 2–5 years of professional experience in email marketing, lifecycle marketing, demand generation, or a related digital marketing function.
- Strong writing skills and a demonstrated ability to craft persuasive, concise, high-performing email copy.
- Good understanding of email performance metrics, optimization techniques, and A/B testing strategies.
- Familiarity with deliverability principles, sender reputation, domain health, and compliance requirements.
- Experience developing outbound emails or messaging for SDR teams is highly preferred.
- Experience defining nurture or lifecycle program strategy—even if another team does the technical build.
- Comfortable collaborating closely with, MOPs, RevOps, and other technical partners.
- Demonstrated ability to independently analyze performance data, identify insights, and proactively recommend improvements.
- Basic familiarity with ESPs or marketing automation platforms (HubSpot, Marketo, Braze, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, etc.), but not required to build workflows.
- Experience working in Asana (or other project management tool) is strongly preferred.
- Familiarity with sales engagement platforms such as Outreach or Salesloft for managing SDR content is a plus.
Benefits
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Hard Skills & Tools
email marketinglifecycle marketingdemand generationA/B testingemail performance metricsoptimization techniquescopywritingsegmentation logicbehavior-based triggersnurture program strategy
Soft Skills
collaborationdata analysiscommunicationpersuasionproblem-solvingindependencecreativityadaptabilityattention to detailproject management