Marketing Automation Specialist (SFMC) (4 days onsite/week - Atlanta, GA)

Our Customer is an independent investment management firm dedicated to delivering an investment experience that helps people get more out of life. They manage $1,198.7 billion in assets on behalf of clients worldwide with the help of over 8,000 highly engaged and motivated employees focused on client needs. They actively encourage their people to collaborate to find the best ideas and solutions for clients, leveraging the tremendous diversity of thought that exists across their global organization.

We are seeking a Marketing Automation Specialist (SFMC) on a contract basis to help support our Customer’s business needs. This role is Onsite - 4days/week at Atlanta, GA.

Overview

• Hands-on individual contributor supporting the North America Marketing Automation team.
• This role builds, tests, and deploys email campaigns in Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC) and provides steady-state coverage of the team's weekly send calendar (roughly 5–7 sends per week).
• The contractor works closely with the marketing automation team, the development team, and the CRM and enablement teams.

Key responsibilities

• Build and deploy email campaigns in SFMC end to end: audience setup, targeting, QA, and deployment.
• Write SQL queries across data extensions to build, segment, and validate audiences.
• Build, monitor, and troubleshoot journeys in Journey Builder and automations in Automation Studio.
• Manage the daily email send calendar and keep campaigns on schedule.
• Partner with the development team, who deliver email code and templates, to assemble and launch dynamic and personalized content.
• Partner with CRM and enablement teams on audience and data discovery: confirm whether the needed data exists and, if not, how it can be provisioned.
• Monitor live journeys and campaign operations; identify and resolve issues quickly.

Required qualifications

• 3–5 years of hands-on email deployment experience in Salesforce Marketing Cloud, including Email Studio, Journey Builder, and Automation Studio.
• Working SQL skills: writing queries across data extensions to create audiences.
• Strong attention to detail and disciplined QA before deployment.
• Clear communication and the ability to work across technical and business teams.

Preferred qualifications:

• Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Specialist certification.
• Experience with Contact Builder and Audience Builder.
• Ability to read and troubleshoot AMPscript in existing content (pending hiring manager confirmation).
• Financial services experience, particularly a perspective on audience targeting in a regulated environment.
• Familiarity with Salesforce CRM.

We offer a competitive salary range for this position. Most candidates who join our team are hired at the median of this range, ensuring fair and equitable compensation based on experience and qualifications.

Contractor benefits are available through our 3rd Party Employer of Record (Available upon completion of waiting period for eligible engagements) Benefits include: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.