The Pond Guy is the leading manufacturer and distributor of pond, lake, and water garden products, and they are seeking an Email & SMS Marketing Manager to own and scale their email and SMS programs for direct-to-consumer eCommerce. The role focuses on driving revenue growth, retention, and customer engagement through strategic management of campaigns and lifecycle flows.
Responsibilities:
- Own and optimize the full email and SMS lifecycle to drive revenue, customer engagement, and retention
- Manage and maintain customer data within Klaviyo, ensuring accurate audience segmentation, list hygiene, and CRM best practices to enhance targeting and personalization
- Implement strategies to grow email and SMS subscriber lists while maintaining quality and compliance
- Analyze email and SMS campaign performance, including open rates, CTRs, conversion rates, and revenue impact, while providing regular reporting with insights and recommendations
- Optimize email/SMS templates for deliverability, engagement, and conversion using A/B testing and personalization strategies
- Work closely with content, design, and product teams to ensure consistent messaging and brand voice
- Create automated workflows, behavior-based messaging sequences, and winback campaigns to enhance customer retention
- Manage the organic social content calendar in alignment with email campaigns, overseeing daily posting, engagement, and scheduling to maintain cohesive cross-channel messaging
- Stay up to date with industry trends, updates to the email service provider (Klaviyo), and best practices to enhance the effectiveness of campaigns
- Develop, document, and implement best practices for email and SMS marketing to ensure consistent execution across the team
Requirements:
- 4+ years of experience in email and SMS marketing, with a strong focus on strategy, automation, and analytics
- Experience working with D2C Ecommerce brands is required
- Expert-level proficiency in Klaviyo or similar email service provider platform, including flows, segmentation, reporting, and integrations
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data, identify trends, and optimize campaigns for performance
- Experience with A/B testing, deliverability best practices, and email/SMS compliance regulations for email and SMS
- Strong project management skills utilizing work management software (such as Asana)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with attention to detail
- Basic HTML and CSS knowledge for email formatting is a plus