Lifecycle Marketing Automation Specialist

Home Chef; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, life and disa

Paid holidays, sick time and vacation

401k program

Flexible spending accounts

Job summary

Home Chef, a leading meal solutions company, seeks a Sr. Associate of Marketing Technology & Automation in Chicago to translate marketing strategies into scalable, technically sound lifecycle campaigns across email, SMS, and push.

You will partner with Lifecycle Marketing to build, validate, and troubleshoot campaigns, focusing on data, automation, and platform solutions across the customer lifecycle. Strong SFMC and AMPscript skills are essential.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in marketing automation, executing lifecycle marketing campaigns.
• Strong experience building event-driven customer journeys using behavioral triggers, customer data, audience segmentation, and multi-channel automations.
• SFMC Marketing Cloud Engagement Specialist Certification preferred.
• Bachelor's degree required.

Responsibilities

• Translate campaign strategies, briefs, and requirements into executable campaigns using marketing technology platforms and data solutions.
• Develop and troubleshoot complex, multi-step automations and journeys with decision rules, waits, data extensions, and cross-channel messaging.
• Own technical QA for lifecycle campaigns, including SFMC pre-send validation, audience validation, render testing, and journey verification.

Skills

Marketing automation

Lifecycle campaigns

AMPscript

SFMC

CDP experience

SQL basics

Data-driven

Figma collaboration

Email testing tools

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Simon AI

HTML/CSS

Email on Acid

Figma

Job description

Home Chef, a leading meal solutions company, seeks a Sr. Associate of Marketing Technology & Automation in Chicago to translate marketing strategies into scalable, technically sound lifecycle campaigns across email, SMS, and push.

You will partner with Lifecycle Marketing to build, validate, and troubleshoot campaigns, focusing on data, automation, and platform solutions across the customer lifecycle. Strong SFMC and AMPscript skills are essential.