Sr. Marketing Automation Associate

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What you'll do:

The Senior MarTech Associate is a hands-on, execution-focused role responsible for building, optimizing, and scaling our lifecycle marketing ecosystem. This role owns the technical execution and design of multi-channel lifecycle communications—including email, push, in-product messaging, SMS, and WhatsApp—while partnering closely with Marketing, CRM Business Solutions, Data, and external vendors to deliver high-impact, compliant, and scalable customer journeys.

This individual combines strong marketing technology expertise with hands-on design and execution skills to improve email quality, develop reusable drag-n-drop templates, implement a robust subscription center, and enable new lifecycle channels that drive engagement and growth. They translate lifecycle strategy into well-orchestrated, automated customer journeys within Braze, Salesforce Marketing Cloud and supporting platforms.

In this role you will:

• Set up, implement, and optimize lifecycle marketing channels including email, push, in-product messaging, SMS, and WhatsApp

• Build, execute, and maintain automated, behavior-driven, multi-channel customer journeys

• Design, build, test, and deploy branded emails and multi-channel templates to improve quality, consistency, and speed to market

• Lead the design and implementation of a subscription center, enabling granular customer preferences and opt-down capabilities

• Manage marketing data integrations, automations, workflows and reporting in partnership with CRM Business Solutions, Data, and external integration vendors

• Ensure CAN-SPAM, MiFID and channel-specific compliance, deliverability best practices, and operational excellence across all lifecycle programs

• Improve lifecycle marketing efficiency by creating QA standards, scalable processes, documentation, and reusable assets for the broader team

• Troubleshoot technical issues across platforms and channels and serve as a subject-matter expert for lifecycle MarTech and Braze

• Collaborate cross-functionally to translate lifecycle marketing strategies into technical requirements and executed solutions

What you'll need:

• 5–7+ years of experience in marketing technology, lifecycle marketing, or marketing automation

• Hands-on experience with Braze (strongly preferred) including multi-channel orchestration (Comparable marketing platforms like Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Iterable, or HubSpot acceptable with relevant multi-channel experience)

• Strong expertise in email design, HTML/CSS, and building reusable, brand-compliant drag-n-drop templates

• Proven experience building and executing multi-channel lifecycle journeys across email, push, SMS, and in-product messaging

• Experience implementing and managing subscription centers and preference management

• Solid understanding of data integrations, APIs, and marketing automation workflows

• Strong knowledge of deliverability, compliance (CAN-SPAM), and email best practices

• Ability to collaborate effectively with Marketing, CRM Business Solutions, Data, and external partners

• Detail-oriented, technically curious, and comfortable owning both strategy execution and hands-on implementation

• Experience scaling lifecycle programs in a high-volume or fast-growing environment is a plus

Compensation:

The salary range for this role will be $80,000.00 - $100,000.00 USD. In addition, this position will also receive an annual target bonus of 8%. Bonus pay at NinjaTrader is based on individual performance (50%) as well as company/team performance (50%).

Salary and bonus earnings are only two components of the total compensation package offered by NinjaTrader. NinjaTrader offers a 401K plan through ADP under which the company will match up to 3.5% of employee contributions. Annual paid time off allowance accrues at a rate of 18 days per year plus seven paid holidays.

Location:

This role is based in Chicago, IL. We are not open to remote candidates for this role

Hybrid:

For Chicago-based employees, we follow a hybrid work schedule: In-office Tuesday through Thursday, with remote work on Mondays and Fridays. In addition to these weekly remote days, we offer:

• 20 additional flex remote days annually

• 5 Company Wide Office-Optional weeks tied to major holidays

Our Core Benefits Include:

• Generous PTO

• 7 Paid Holidays Annually + 5 Conditional Holidays Annually

• 1 Service Day Annually

• 401k with 3.5% Company Match

• Paid Parental Bonding Leave

• Health, Vision, Dental Coverage

• Life and Disability Insurance Covered 100% by NinjaTrader

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.