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About the Role

The Email Marketing Operations Specialist supports the day-to-day execution and quality assurance of Indigo’s email marketing program, focusing on campaign deployment, audience and list validation, email code, reporting, and basic technical support. This role ensures campaigns, automated Journeys, and personalized experiences are accurately configured, tested, and delivered on time, creating capacity for the team to focus on strategic initiatives.

Responsibilities

Build, test, schedule, and deploy promotional email campaigns in Iterable.
Configure audiences, suppression logic, personalization, tracking, and send settings.
Perform campaign QA across content, links, products, legal copy, code, rendering, and customer experience.
Support A/B and multivariate testing by configuring test groups, validating campaign variations, confirming audience splits, and ensuring results can be measured accurately.
Test personalized and dynamic content using representative customer profiles to confirm customer attributes, conditional logic, recommendation outputs, and fallback experiences work as intended.
Validate audience lists, segmentation criteria, customer data, catalog information, and expected send volumes before deployment.
Support recurring campaigns, automated Journeys, triggered emails, templates, and reusable campaign components.
Complete basic HTML/CSS updates and triage email bugs, operational requests, and user tickets.
Support campaign reporting, including the validation of test results, personalization performance, audience counts, and campaign metrics.
Document and escalate campaign, audience, testing, or data discrepancies before deployment.
Provide additional operational support to the Email Marketing team as required.
Contribute to ongoing process improvements to drive efficiency.
Build strong working relationships across Email Marketing, Creative, Merchandising, Site, Loyalty, Analytics, and Technology teams.
Communicate campaign status, risks, requirements, and identified issues clearly and promptly.
Manage an assigned queue of campaigns, tickets, and reporting requests independently while escalating when appropriate.
Share technical and operational knowledge with others and actively seek opportunities to learn.
Support an open and collaborative environment where feedback, questions, and new ideas are welcomed.
Model Indigo’s beliefs and convey a positive image in everything you do.
Celebrate diversity of thought and maintain an open mindset.
Take an active role in fostering a culture of continual learning and development.
Demonstrate accountability, curiosity, and attention to the end-to-end customer experience.
Embrace and support change across the team and organization.

Requirements

Minimum two years of hands-on experience in email marketing, CRM, campaign operations, or marketing automation.
Experience building, testing, scheduling, and deploying campaigns within an email service provider.
Experience with audience segmentation, suppression logic, list management, and data hygiene.
Experience performing detailed quality assurance across email content, code, audiences, links, personalization, and rendering.
Experience working independently in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
Comfortable reviewing audience counts, campaign data, personalization outputs, and reporting results for accuracy.
Able to independently manage campaigns, operational requests, and user tickets.
Comfortable working collaboratively with marketing, creative, data, and technical stakeholders.

Skills

Iterable experience is preferred; experience with a comparable email or marketing-automation platform will also be considered.
Exceptional attention to detail and a strong quality-assurance mindset.
Strong analytical, organizational, planning, and time-management skills.
Ability to manage multiple highly detailed tasks accurately while reacting with urgency and reprioritizing when required.
Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
Clear written and verbal communication skills.
Curious about email technology, automation, personalization, data, and campaign performance.
Dependable, accountable, and open to feedback.
Basic HTML and CSS skills, including table-based email layouts and inline styling.
Experience maintaining automated journeys, triggered campaigns, or lifecycle programs.
Experience with dynamic content, conditional logic, recommendation programs, or personalized email.
Exposure to transactional email programs.
Familiarity with UTM tracking, web analytics, campaign attribution, and performance reporting.
Understanding of email deliverability fundamentals, including authentication, domain reputation, suppression management, and inbox placement.
Experience with project-management or ticketing tools.

Location

Remote

Work Type

Full-time
Contract

Experience Level

Minimum two years of hands-on experience

Education Level

A degree or diploma in Marketing, Communications, Business, Digital Media, Technology, or a related field is an asset, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Salary/Compensations

CAD 45000 - CAD 65000 - yearly

Benefits

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About the Company

Indigo is a physical and digital place inspired by and filled with books, ideas, beautifully designed lifestyle products, and the creative people who help make it all happen.
We believe in real books, living life fully and generously, being kind to each other and to the environment, and that stories – big and little – connect us.
Indigo is our customer’s happy place – for joyful moments of discovery and to connect with people who share their passion for reading, their belief in ideas, and their commitment to making the world a better and more beautiful place.
Our Mission is to inspire reading and enrich the lives of booklovers.
As such, we believe in the power of people and their stories.
We aim to attract top talent, nurture the potential of our employees, and create space for everyone to thrive.
Our Guiding Principles are the few key ideas that are meant to influence everything we do, every day.
We Will Hire, Inspire, Promote and Retain the Best – A’s Hire A’s.
We Will be Customer Centric.
We Will Be Data Driven – System Thinking – Entrepreneurial.
We are Committed to True and Shared Value Creation.
We Will be Human-Centered and AI Enabled.
We are Committed to Caring About Each Other, Our Communities, Our Environment.

Equal Opportunity

Indigo uses artificial intelligence (AI) tools to assist with certain aspects of the hiring process, such as screening and assessments. These tools support our team but do not replace human judgment. We are committed to using AI responsibly, fairly, and in compliance with applicable employment and anti-discrimination laws. We regularly review these tools to help prevent bias or discrimination.
At Indigo, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility are core to our values. We integrate these principles into our training, policies, and hiring practices and continuously evolve to reflect the needs of the communities we serve. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and lived experiences, including but not limited to individuals who identify as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour), members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, and persons with disabilities. If you require an accommodation during the recruitment process, please contact Human Resources at [email protected].