Email Marketing Specialist
Client Accelerators
Apply to this jobDepartment: Marketing Operations
Reports to: Senior Media Buyer
About the Role
Own, operate, and continuously improve the agency’s email marketing system as a revenue, retention, and activation channel. This role is accountable for strategy, copy, automation architecture, deliverability health, and performance optimization across the full funnel.
This is not a task-based execution role. This is a system ownership role.
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and maintain full-funnel automated email systems across lead, buyer, and customer lifecycles
- Write, deploy, and optimize all email copy across automation and broadcast campaigns
- Own CRM configuration and hygiene including segmentation logic, tagging standards, and lifecycle stages
- Manage deliverability infrastructure including authentication, reputation monitoring, and inbox placement
- Plan and execute promotional and informational broadcasts aligned with campaign calendars
- Continuously test and optimize subject lines, offers, sequencing logic, and send timing
- Monitor performance metrics and surface insights, risks, and opportunities proactively
- Ensure email systems integrate cleanly with paid media, funnels, and sales workflows
- Maintain documentation and SOPs for all email systems and processes
Outcomes
System Coverage & Reliability
- 100% of core funnel stages supported by live automation (lead nurture, buyer onboarding, fulfillment, reactivation)
- Zero broken automations, misfires, or sequencing conflicts per month
- New offers or funnels supported by email automation within 5 business days of launch readiness
Revenue & Engagement Performance
- Achieve and maintain:
- ≥25% average open rate across active lists
- ≥2.5% average click-through rate on non-promotional emails
- ≥5% click-through rate on promotional broadcasts
- Email channel contributes a minimum of 20–30% of total attributable backend revenue (where applicable)
- 7 Broadcast Email campaigns launched for each assigned clients on-time with zero copy or technical errors
- Conduct at least 2 A/B testing cadence per month
Deliverability & List Health
- Domain reputation maintained at “healthy” status with no blacklisting events
- Spam complaint rate ≤0.1%
- Bounce rate ≤2% across all sends
- Inactive subscribers suppressed or reactivated quarterly according to hygiene rules
Operational Excellence
- CRM segmentation and tagging accuracy ≥99% (no misrouted or mis-tagged subscribers)
- All email systems documented and auditable
- Weekly performance snapshot delivered with clear insights and next actions
Requirements
- Proven experience owning email marketing systems for info products, coaching, or digital education businesses
- Strong direct-response copywriting background with performance-driven thinking
- Hands-on expertise in platforms such as HubSpot, ActiveCampaign, or equivalent
- Deep understanding of deliverability mechanics (SPF, DKIM, DMARC, warming, reputation management)
- Ability to think in systems, not one-off campaigns
- Comfort working autonomously with minimal oversight
Disqualifiers (Read This Carefully)
- You only write emails but don’t touch automation or CRM architecture
- You rely on templates without testing or optimization logic
- You cannot explain why an email sequence is structured the way it is
- You need daily direction to execute
How to Apply
Submit:
- Examples of full email systems or sequences you’ve built
- Performance metrics tied to those systems (opens, clicks, revenue, or conversions)
- A brief explanation of how you approach full-funnel email strategy and ongoing optimization
Benefits
- Work with world-class performance marketers
- Exposure to comprehensive trainings
- Unlimited PTO
Summary
Manage and optimize full-funnel email systems for revenue and engagement.
Job title
Email Marketing Specialist
Experience level
proven experience
Industry
marketing
Location requirements
South Africa, remote work not specified
Salary
Not specified
Management role
No
Required skills
Preferred skills
Specializations
Structured locations inferred from the posting.
South Africa