Marketing Automation Specialist

Topgolf; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free Play

Discounted food

Health insurance

Dental

Vision

401(k) match

Mental well-being platform

Job summary

Topgolf is seeking a Marketing Automation Specialist to design and optimize automated journeys across email, SMS, and app push, driving conversions and visit frequency. You will connect player data from multiple sources to personalize communications and improve spend efficiency.

You will collaborate with program managers, email developers, and stakeholders across Commercial & Digital, Event, and Brand teams to build workflows, run A/B tests, and deliver insights on campaign performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, CE, Marketing, or related field.
• 5+ years managing marketing automation platforms.
• 5+ years designing campaigns across channels (email, SMS, app push).
• 3+ years with relational databases, queries, and custom audience development.
• 3+ years data handling using API and batch processing.
• 2+ years SQL.
• Preferred: 2+ years HTML/CSS for email.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication with non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement automated marketing and event journeys across email, SMS, and app push platforms.
• Build intricate workflows aligned with objectives and segmentation strategies.
• Manage and optimize marketing automation platforms and vendor relationships, ensuring seamless integration with other marketing technologies.
• Collaborate with the Product Manager, CDP to ensure the triggering and deployment of downstream campaigns.
• Utilize customer data to create audience segments and personalize automated campaigns.
• Implement A/B testing to refine and improve the effectiveness of automated communications.
• Monitor and analyze the performance of automated campaigns, providing insights and recommendations for optimization.
• Generate regular reports on key metrics such as open rates, click-through rates, and conversion rates.

Skills

Marketing automation

Campaign design across channels

SQL

HTML/CSS email

Data handling APIs

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE/Marketing

Tools

Oracle Responsys

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Vibes

Airship

Job description

WHAT WE’RE SEEKING

The Marketing Automation Specialist executes and optimizes automated marketing campaigns for Topgolf, building technical journeys across email, SMS, and app push platforms to improve conversion and visit frequency, decrease churn, and optimize spend. This role also connects player data across multiple sources to enhance personalization within those journeys.

The Marketing Automation Specialist will work closely with program managers, email developers, and stakeholders across the broader Commercial & Digital, Event, and Brand teams.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement automated marketing and event journeys across email, SMS, and app push platforms to deliver personalized, targeted communication to our audience
• Build out intricate workflows that align with business objectives and player segmentation strategies
• Manage and optimize marketing automation platforms and vendor relationships, ensuring seamless integration with other marketing technologies
• Collaborate with the Product Manager, CDP to ensure the seamless and effective triggering and deployment of downstream campaigns
• Utilize customer data to create audience segments and personalize automated campaigns for maximum relevance and impact
• Implement A/B testing to refine and improve the effectiveness of automated communications
• Monitor and analyze the performance of automated campaigns, providing insights and recommendations for optimization
• Generate regular reports on key metrics such as open rates, click-through rates, and conversion rates

CORE COMPETENCIES FOR SUCCESS

Strategic & Systems Thinking

Connects automated journeys and player data to conversion, visit frequency, retention, and spend goals.

• Designs and implements automated marketing and event journeys across email, SMS, and app push platforms.
• Builds intricate workflows that align with business objectives and player segmentation strategies.

Analytical Rigor & Data Fluency

Turns customer data into audiences, personalization, and actionable insight.

• Utilizes customer data to create audience segments and personalize automated campaigns for maximum relevance and impact.
• Monitors and analyzes campaign performance, providing insights and recommendations for optimization.

Governance & Judgment

Maintains quality and sound judgment across platforms, data sources, and vendors.

• Manages and optimizes marketing automation platforms and vendor relationships, ensuring seamless integration with other marketing technologies.
• Proactively identifies and addresses data and platform challenges to deliver high-quality, error-free campaigns.

Stakeholder Partnership

Builds trust with cross-functional partners and translates data into insight for non-technical audiences.

• Collaborates with the Product Manager, CDP to ensure the seamless and effective triggering and deployment of downstream campaigns.
• Works closely with program managers, email developers, and the Commercial & Digital, Event, and Brand teams.

Execution Excellence

Manages multiple journeys and projects at once with precision and attention to detail.

• Implements A/B testing to refine and improve the effectiveness of automated communications.
• Generates regular reports on key metrics such as open rates, click-through rates, and conversion rates.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Marketing, or a related business field
• 5+ years of experience managing marketing automation platforms (e.g., Oracle Responsys, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Vibes, Airship)
• 5+ years of experience designing and implementing marketing campaigns across channels (e.g., email, SMS, app push)
• 3+ years of experience with relational tables, queries, and custom audience development
• 3+ years of experience with data handling, utilizing both API and batch processing
• 2+ years of familiarity with programming languages commonly used in data management (e.g., SQL)
• Preferred: 2+ years of HTML (including responsive) and CSS development for email
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to derive insights from customer data to inform journey strategy
• Effective communication skills to convey data-driven insights to non-technical stakeholders
• Strong organizational skills to handle multiple projects simultaneously, with a detail-oriented focus on high-quality, error-free campaigns
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and platform vendors
• Proactive approach to identifying and addressing data and platform challenges
• Willingness to stay current on industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in marketing automation

BENEFITS

Free Play & 1/2 price food! Health, dental, vision, 401(k) team member match, free mental well-being platform – and that’s just for starters for those who qualify.

ADA

The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of the job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some incumbents assigned to the job to perform a different combination of duties.

EEO Statement

Topgolf is a global sports and entertainment community and is committed to equal opportunity and is firmly committed to preventing discrimination and harassment, including sexual misconduct, based on legally protected diversity characteristics (such as race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family status, citizenship, genetic information and veteran status) in its application and hiring processes and in its employment decisions. As an affirmative action employer, Topgolf also takes steps to prevent retaliation and to create a respectful, equitable and inclusive environment for our Guests, Associates, business partners, vendors, and the communities we serve.

Topgolf is an equal opportunity affirmative action employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status, genetics or any other category protected under applicable law.

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