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Available online at homechef.com and in retail at more than 2,100 Kroger grocery stores, Home Chef is committed to inspiring and enabling more people to cook simple, delicious meals, no matter how busy they are.\nIn 2023, Home Chef introduced a new brand, Tempo! Tempo features a rotating selection of ready-to-heat meals delivered directly to your door. These meals are better-for-you versions of familiar favorites, designed to save you time and reduce stress while maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Our Tempo menu includes options that are protein-packed, fiber-rich, calorie and carb conscious, keto-friendly, and dietitian-approved.\nSimilar to our recipes, we recognize that variety is the spice of life, and therefore, our employees also bring their uniqueness and color to our fantastic team. We’re eager to work with humble team players and pragmatic next-level thinkers to innovate on Home Chef’s offerings.\nWe are looking for a Sr. Associate of Marketing Technology & Automation to support the technology, data, automation, and technical execution capabilities that power our customer lifecycle marketing strategy. In close partnership with the Lifecycle Marketing team, you will help translate marketing strategies and campaign requirements into scalable, technically sound solutions across our marketing technology ecosystem.\nYou’ll work closely with the Manager of Marketing Technology & Automation in a highly hands-on, technical role focused on building, maintaining, validating, and troubleshooting lifecycle marketing campaigns across email, SMS, and push throughout the customer lifecycle, including leads and activation, retention and loyalty, and re-engagement and winback.\nThe ideal candidate combines strong marketing automation and tactical execution skills with a deep interest in marketing technology, data, and automation. You are highly detail-oriented and operationally disciplined, comfortable working in marketing technology platforms and thrive on solving technical and executional challenges. You will serve as a technical subject-matter resource for Lifecycle Marketing, helping marketers bring campaigns to life through data, technology, automation, and scalable platform solutions.\nDetailed Responsibilities\nCampaign Enablement \nPartner closely with the Lifecycle Marketing team to translate campaign strategies, briefs, and requirements into executable campaigns, leveraging marketing technology platforms and data solutions as needed.\nDevelop and troubleshoot complex, multi-step automations and/or journeys, including decision rule logic, wait conditions, data extension targeting, audience filters, re-entry rules, and cross-channel messaging.\nBuild, edit, and maintain highly dynamic email templates, content modules, and assets using HTML & CSS, as well as AMPscript conditional logic, fallback handling, personalization, loops, and lookups.\nTroubleshoot ESP campaign setup and execution issues, escalating more complex technology or data issues as needed.\nData & Audience Operations\nExecute day-to-day activities within the CDP to ESP pipeline, including audience creation & segmentation, flow creation, scheduling, testing, and deployment.\nPartner with the Lifecycle Marketing team to leverage CDP capabilities with customer data to support targeting, personalization, and lifecycle marketing strategies within the ESP.\nSupport the ongoing maintenance of segmentation, flows, and other operational assets.\nDocument technical processes, campaign architecture, platform best practices, and operational workflows to improve team scalability and knowledge sharing.\nTechnical Quality Assurance & Campaign Validation\nOwn technical QA for lifecycle marketing campaigns, including Salesforce Marketing Cloud pre-send validation, audience validation, render testing, link testing, personalization checks, automation testing, and journey verification.\nTest and validate triggered communications, customer journeys, automations, and cross-channel campaign experiences prior to launch.\nInvestigate unexpected campaign behavior, data discrepancies, automation failures, and other technical issues, partnering with Data or other teams as needed.\nEstablish and maintain operational QA processes and best practices that improve campaign accuracy, reliability, and scalability.\nProvide technical guidance and support to Lifecycle Marketing throughout campaign development and execution.\nProvide cross-functional support for external stakeholder teams leveraging SFMC, reporting requests, and platform administration.\nThis position requires 0% travel\nQualifications\nThe requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability needed for this role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities.\n3+ years of hands-on experience in marketing automation, executing lifecycle marketing campaigns.\nStrong experience building event-driven customer journeys using behavioral triggers, customer data, audience segmentation, and multi-channel automations.\nESP experience, Salesforce Marketing Cloud or major enterprise ESP.\nBasic SQL knowledge for validating customer data.\nStrong understanding of email marketing fundamentals and lifecycle marketing best practices.\nSFMC Marketing Cloud Engagement Specialist Certification.\nStrong AMPscript knowledge for dynamic content setup and A/B testing.\nExperience with a Customer Data Platform (CDP); Simon AI is a big plus.\nExperience using Figma in collaboration with Lifecycle & Creative teams.\nFamiliarity with email testing platforms, such as Email on Acid.\nCompletion of a four-year degree program in a related field\nMore About Us\nPerks and benefits\nCandidates can experience Home Chef as a customer - enter promo code PEOPLE30 for $30 off your first order!\nMedical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance available\nPaid holidays, sick time and vacation time\n401k program\nFlexible spending accounts for qualified medical, dependent care, parking, or transit expenses\nHow We Work Together\nWe are humble team players.\nWe are warm and gracious with team members and customers. We seek feedback to improve ourselves - and respectfully listen to and accept input.\nWe are pragmatic next-level thinkers.\nWe come up with novel and unique ideas. We explore new strategies to avoid being constrained by conventional thinking.\nWe take ownership.\nWe approach ambiguous problems, prepared to dive in, get curious, and learn more. We are results-driven, always challenging ourselves to exceed goals.\nBe at Home at Home Chef\nWe all show up authentically at Home Chef. Our team includes individuals with a variety of identities, backgrounds, and perspectives. You can trust that you’ll be able to bring your whole self to an inclusive and enjoyable workplace.\nWe welcome people of all races, colors, religions, national origin or ancestry, sex (including sexual identity), age, physical or mental disabilities, pregnancy, veteran or military status, unfavorable discharge from military service, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital status, order of protection status, citizenship status, arrest record or expunged/sealed convictions, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state, or local law.\nHome Chef is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Home Chef will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact our People team at .\nHome Chef offers the base salary range as posted below, with the exact offer depending on factors such as geographic location, experience, skills, and internal equity. While compensation is within the provided range, it is not typical for offers to be made at the upper end. 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