Email Marketing Specialist

Email Marketing Developer

• Remote (Latin America-based)

• Compensation: $2,000 - $3,000 USD/month

• Full-time, PST hours, Contractor

• Tech Stack: Iterable, Handlebars, Liquid, AMPscript, HTML/CSS, Mixpanel, Looker, Google Sheets, Google Slides, AWS, Slack, Gmail

At Near, we connect top talent in Latin America with exciting remote opportunities at U.S.-based companies. Our mission is to create better lives by fostering a remote work culture that transcends borders.

About the Company:

Our client is an innovative company in the kids’ products and ecommerce space, helping families through fun, creative, hands-on projects and products designed to be age- and stage-appropriate for children of all ages. They work as a collaborative team to create meaningful experiences that make play more enriching, engaging, and educational. With innovation and creativity at their core, they are transforming how families discover play-based learning and building brighter futures for kids.

About the Role:

We’re looking for an Email Marketing Developer who combines technical execution with ownership and confidence. You’ll build and deploy lifecycle campaigns, develop dynamic email logic, and support CRM operations inside Iterable while collaborating closely with CRM leadership and internal stakeholders. This role requires someone who is proactive, detail-oriented, highly communicative, and able to work independently in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities.

You Will:

• Build and deploy email and SMS campaigns in Iterable, including one-time sends and triggered lifecycle flows

• Write and maintain Handlebars logic for dynamic content, conditional messaging, and personalization

• Configure and manage journeys in Iterable, including branching logic, audience rules, and triggered automations

• QA campaigns and flows for rendering, logic accuracy, link integrity, and audience targeting

• Build and update technical email templates using HTML/CSS

• Work with segmentation, customer data, event triggers, and flow logic to support campaign execution

• Pull and organize campaign performance data from Iterable, Mixpanel, Looker, and Google Sheets

• Build recurring reports, dashboards, and presentation materials in Google Slides

• Organize and host image assets in AWS

• Communicate with internal teams through Slack and Gmail

• Support a high-volume seasonal period from October through December, especially during Black Friday and Cyber Monday

About You:

Your Background:

• 2+ years of experience working in email marketing development, CRM, or lifecycle marketing

• Strong experience with Iterable or a comparable platform such as Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Braze, or Klaviyo, with direct Iterable experience strongly preferred

• Strong proficiency in Handlebars, Liquid, AMPscript, or similar templating and scripting languages

• Strong understanding of journey configuration, segmentation, conditional logic, and triggered campaigns

• Comfortable using HTML/CSS for template edits including fonts, images, headers, and links

• Functional proficiency in Mixpanel, Looker, Google Sheets, and Google Slides

• Familiarity with AWS for image hosting and asset management

• Excellent communication skills — comfortable in a distributed, English-speaking environment

• Self-motivated, proactive, and able to take ownership without heavy hand-holding

• Highly detail-oriented, organized, and consistent with QA and process execution

• Strong judgment about when to work independently and when to ask questions or check in

• Comfortable managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment

• Ability to work flexibly during urgent or peak seasonal periods, especially in Q4

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Airtable or similar task management tools

• Familiarity with additional ESPs such as Braze, HubSpot, or Klaviyo

• Experience in ecommerce, subscription businesses, retention marketing, or lifecycle marketing