Manager, Growth Marketing Platforms

Meredith Corporation; Des Moines (IA); Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401K with company match

Paid holidays

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

People Inc. is seeking a Manager, Growth Marketing Platforms to oversee email and SMS operations across brand campaigns.

You will translate product initiatives into scalable, testable workflows, manage campaign setup through deployment, monitor deliverability, and partner with cross‑functional teams to drive growth and maximize user value. This hybrid role in Des Moines, IA requires 2–3 years of email/SMS operations experience, knowledge of ESPs, and strong project management.

Qualifications

• 2-3 years of experience in email, SMS, or mobile app messaging operations.
• Knowledge of ESPs and notification systems.
• Strong project management and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent collaboration and communication across editorial, product, data, and strategy teams.
• Experience managing vendor relationships and holding partners accountable.

Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day email and SMS campaign operations, ensuring flawless execution and timely delivery.
• Build custom user selections and connected programs for enhanced targeting.
• Scope, build, and launch 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.
• Maintain platform folder structures, naming conventions, asset governance, and permission controls.
• Manage data hygiene efforts (inactivity criteria, churn processing, inactive segment monitoring).
• Monitor inbox placement, blocklist status, bounce codes, and sender reputation across brands and IPs.
• Partner with the deliverability consultant to identify and mitigate risks—spam traps, throttling, complaint spikes, cold IP warming, etc.
• Oversee CAN-SPAM, CASL, GDPR, and CCPA compliance across templates, data handling, and unsubscribe processes.
• Manage domain-level configurations (SPF, DKIM, DMARC) in partnership with Tech Ops.

Skills

Email/SMS ops

ESPs knowledge

Project management

Communication

Vendor management

Job description

Job Title: Manager, Growth Marketing Platforms

Job Description About The Position | Major goals and objectives and location requirements

The Platform Operations Manager plays an important role within the Growth team, ensuring excellence across our email and SMS programs. This role acts as the primary operations partner, translating product initiatives into scalable, testable, and reliable email, push notification and SMS workflows. This individual is responsible for maintaining the operational integrity for email and notification campaigns for assigned brands—from setup through deployment. Working at the intersection of email and SMS messaging, this role will oversee campaign setup, execution, monitor deliverability health, and partner with cross-functional teams to ensure our programs deliver both user value and growth.

Hybrid 3x a week- (Des Moines, IA)

In-office Expectations: This position is hybrid in-office, with the ability to work remotely for up to 2 days per week.

About The Positions Contributions:

Campaign Operations & Execution

• 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.

Platform & Data Management

• 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.
• Maintain platform folder structures, naming conventions, asset governance, and permission controls.
• Manage data hygiene efforts (inactivity criteria, churn processing, inactive segment monitoring).

Deliverability & Performance

• Monitor inbox placement, blocklist status, bounce codes, and sender reputation across brands and IPs.
• Partner with the deliverability consultant to identify and mitigate risks—spam traps, throttling, complaint spikes, cold IP warming, etc.
• Oversee CAN-SPAM, CASL, GDPR, and CCPA compliance across templates, data handling, and unsubscribe processes.
• Manage domain-level configurations (SPF, DKIM, DMARC) in partnership with Tech Ops.

The Role’s Minimum Qualifications and Job 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.

About The Team | The Team and/or Brand.

This role is part of our centralized Growth and Audience Relationship team, responsible for growing direct relationships between our brands and consumers, operating People Inc. brands' newsletter, notification and retention marketing programs, and delivering best in class experiences to millions of subscribers and members. This role works cross-functionally with product, data, production, and growth team counterparts, as well as brand leaders and brand editorial.

% Travel Required (Approximate): 5%

It is the policy of People Inc. to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, the Company will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Accommodation requests can be made by emailing [e-mail].

The Company participates in the federal E-Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees. For further information about the E-Verify program, please click here: https://www.e-verify.gov/employees

Pay Range Salary: Remote: $60,000.00 - $70,000.00

The pay range above represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position and may change in the future. Actual pay may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to work location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of People Inc's total compensation package for employees. Other compensation may include annual bonuses, and short- and long-term incentives.

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 disability
• long term disability
• health savings and flexible spending accounts
• family care benefits
• generous 401K savings plan with a company match program
• 10-12 paid holidays annually
• generous paid parental leave (birthing and non-birthing parents)
• pet insurance
• accident
• critical and hospital indemnity health insurance coverage
• life and disability insurance

all of which may vary depending on the specific nature of your employment with People Inc. and your work location.