Capital One
Capital One
Capital One is a financial services and fintech company offering credit cards, auto loans, banking, and savings products. Its work combines financial expertise with technology and digital tools to improve how customers manage money. The company’s careers focus includes building customer-oriented solutions within a diverse and inclusive workforce.

Email Marketing Lead, Principal Associate – Capital One (Chicago, Onsite)

Lead Capital One’s email marketing and CRM infrastructure for merchant reactivation across the United States and Canada. Own segmentation, automation, SQL, conversion-focused copywriting, and enterprise email platform operations.

Description

  • Build automated, trigger-based email journeys connected to offline marketing activities such as telemarketing, website visits, and direct mail.
  • Lead enterprise email service provider implementations and platform migrations.
  • Translate marketing needs into clear requirements for engineering delivery.
  • Develop custom SQL queries to create dynamic audience segments.
  • Review and resolve issues in HTML/CSS templates and email copy.
  • Measure campaign effectiveness through lower-funnel indicators including reactivation volume, Cost Per Reactivation, conversion rate, and funnel velocity.
  • Oversee campaign quality assurance, cross-client rendering tests, dynamic-data validation, and regulatory compliance coordination.
  • Partner with engineering, analytics, and marketing stakeholders.
  • Drive an ongoing testing program informed by experimentation and growth objectives.
  • Use direct-response copywriting and sales psychology to create email content that motivates customer action.
  • Own the email channel while developing the CRM platform and marketing infrastructure from the ground up.
  • Launch the email service provider environment in partnership with engineering, compliance, IT, and related teams.
  • Develop and manage a comprehensive CRM program for merchants in the United States and Canada.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or military experience.
  • At least five years of marketing operations and CRM experience, including technical ownership of email service provider implementations and Salesforce data synchronization.
  • At least four years of hands-on experience with Salesforce architecture, Pardot (Account Engagement), or Salesforce Marketing Cloud, including CRM field definition and system integrations.
  • At least four years of experience writing direct-response email copy.
  • At least five years of experience assessing marketing performance with lower-funnel metrics such as reactivation volume, Cost Per Reactivation, and velocity.
  • Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.
  • Preferred: Bachelor’s degree in marketing, advertising, communications, or consumer behavior.
  • Preferred: Strong project management, organizational, and detail-management abilities.
  • Preferred: Experience coordinating multiple stakeholders and working across functions.
  • Preferred: At least one year of hands-on SQL query writing for database segmentation and HTML/CSS template troubleshooting.
  • Preferred: Excellent communication skills with a consistent testing practice and a curious, growth-oriented approach.
  • Preferred: Experience writing or reviewing direct-response call scripts, field briefs, and objection-handling materials.
  • Preferred: Experience managing regulatory or legal compliance reviews for marketing operations.
  • Preferred: At least two years of vendor management experience.

Benefits

  • Performance-based incentive compensation may include cash bonuses and/or long-term incentives.
  • Comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive health, financial, and other benefits designed to support overall well-being.
  • Reasonable accommodations are available for applicants who need them.
  • Commitment to equal opportunity and nondiscrimination.
  • Drug-free workplace.

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