Position Overview
Senior Email Manager (SMS & Push) $155,000 to $180,000 Base Salary + Annual Bonus
Location: Arlington, TX
Preference will be given to candidates who are able to work onsite Monday through Friday. Local candidates seeking a hybrid schedule may also be considered. Non-local candidates may be considered if they are able to work onsite in Arlington for one week every three weeks.
Key Responsibilities
Marketing Strategy and Campaign Execution
- Lead the strategy, planning, development, scheduling, and execution of email, SMS, and mobile push notification campaigns.
- Translate business objectives into targeted campaign plans, audience segments, personalized messaging, creative requirements, and appropriate communication cadence.
- Manage the full campaign lifecycle, from planning and content development through technical production, testing, deployment, and performance evaluation.
- Oversee the existing email marketing program while identifying opportunities to establish and expand SMS and push notification capabilities.
- Coordinate national marketing initiatives with regional and local campaigns to ensure communications reflect customer interests, behaviors, geographic location, and stage in the buying journey.
- Develop and optimize customer communications that nurture prospective buyers and encourage meaningful next steps, including scheduling appointments and home tours.
Customer Journey and Marketing Automation
- Develop and manage customer journeys that combine scheduled campaigns with automated, behavior-triggered communications.
- Partner with CRM and technical teams to support audience segmentation, targeting, trigger logic, and automated workflows.
- Optimize message timing, frequency, content, and channel selection to improve engagement and support progression through the customer journey.
- Ensure campaign messaging aligns with associated landing pages and digital experiences, providing consistent and relevant information across customer touchpoints.
Team Leadership and Campaign Operations
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of two to three direct reports, establishing priorities, assigning responsibilities, and managing campaign production schedules.
- Oversee campaign workflows, production quality, and delivery timelines across manual campaigns and automated programs.
- Establish and maintain quality assurance standards, including audience validation, content review, link testing, configuration checks, and pre-deployment testing.
- Monitor daily campaign delivery, identify and resolve execution issues, and implement process improvements to maintain accuracy, efficiency, and consistency.
- Work with creative and technical team members to ensure campaigns meet marketing objectives and production requirements.
Analytics and Performance Optimization
- Monitor and evaluate campaign performance using relevant delivery, engagement, and conversion metrics.
- Collaborate with analytics teams to develop reporting and dashboards, identify trends, and translate findings into actionable recommendations.
- Conduct ongoing testing and optimization of audience segments, messaging, creative, calls to action, and send cadence.
- Focus on improving customer engagement, qualified lead generation, and appointments for home tours through relevant, data-informed communications.
- Recommend enhancements to marketing technologies, automation, templates, and campaign processes to improve effectiveness and operational efficiency.
Cross-Functional Collaboration and Compliance
- Partner with marketing, CRM, analytics, creative, web, and technical teams to coordinate campaign execution and maintain a consistent customer experience.
- Work with CRM teams on segmentation and list hygiene, creative teams on targeted content, analytics teams on reporting, and web teams on aligned landing pages.
- Coordinate with email service providers, developers, and other technology partners to support campaign configuration, testing, deployment, and troubleshooting.
- Ensure communications comply with applicable marketing regulations, privacy and consent requirements, accessibility standards, and brand guidelines.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Business Administration, or a related field.
- At least seven years of experience in email marketing, including campaign strategy, execution, and performance optimization.
- Hands-on SMS marketing experience; approximately two or more years is preferred.
- Experience with mobile push notifications or other messaging channels is desirable.
- Experience leading or managing employees, overseeing campaign workflows, and balancing multiple projects and deadlines.
- Strong knowledge of audience segmentation, personalization, customer lifecycle marketing, campaign cadence, and marketing automation.
- Experience with automated, behavior-triggered communications and customer journey development.
- Familiarity with email service providers, CRM platforms, campaign testing, quality assurance, and performance reporting.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to use performance data to improve results.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across creative, marketing, analytics, CRM, web, and technical teams.
- Strong attention to detail and the ability to translate business objectives into effective marketing campaigns.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in homebuilding, residential real estate, automotive, retail, or another industry with national and regional marketing needs.
- Experience nurturing leads through an extended buying cycle with multiple customer touchpoints.
- Experience developing new messaging channels or expanding an established email program into a broader multi-channel strategy.
- Familiarity with email deliverability best practices, privacy requirements, messaging compliance, and accessibility standards.