Digital Marketing Senior Specialist

About this role

Company
Cox Automotive - USAJob Family Group

MarketingJob Profile

Digital Marketing / Communications Sr SpecialistManagement Level

Individual ContributorFlexible Work Option

Can work remotely but need to live in the specified city, state, or regionTravel %

Yes, 5% of the timeWork Shift

DayCompensation
Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $74,000.00 - $111,000.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.Job Description

*This position is remote/work from home. You need to reside within the Eastern or Central Time Zones. If near our Atlanta office, the role will be hybrid.

The Senior Specialist, Digital Marketing / Communications – Email, SMS & Organic Social conducts day-to-day channel operations for email marketing, SMS communications, and organic social media across Cox Automotive’s enterprise B2B portfolio. This role independently executes campaigns for a broad range of brands and products, handling end-to-end campaign development including audience strategy, content optimization, journey design, testing, and performance analysis. The Senior Specialist identifies opportunities to improve engagement and deliverability, proactively recommends new strategies and content approaches, and contributes to the innovation roadmap for channel technologies and platforms.
The ideal candidate brings demonstrated expertise in email marketing, SMS, and organic social execution, with the ability to independently run complex, multi-brand campaigns and proactively recommend improvements. This individual partners closely with 82 auction locations and Key Account Marketing teams, creative teams, marketing automation specialists, analytics, agency partners, and fellow digital marketing professionals to translate business objectives into high-performing channel campaigns, and identifies new industry trends and technologies that can strengthen Cox Automotive’s owned channel presence.
What You’ll Do

• Email Campaign Execution & Optimization

• Conduct end-to-end email campaign execution for a broad range of brands and products, including audience segmentation, journey design, template development, content optimization, QA, deployment, and post-send analysis.

• Design nurture programs for different audience segments and lifecycle stages, building progressive engagement sequences that drive conversion and retention.

• Implement progressive profiling strategies to enrich contact data over time and improve personalization capabilities across email campaigns.

• Execute re-engagement campaigns for inactive subscribers, testing content approaches, subject lines, and send timing to recover audience attention.

• Proactively recommend new email strategies, content formats, and automation approaches to amplify engagement and drive toward business objectives.

• Implement deliverability monitoring practices including sender reputation tracking, domain health checks, and ISP feedback loop analysis.

• SMS Campaign Execution & Optimization

• Execute SMS campaigns across a broad range of brands, handling message creation, audience targeting, compliance management, and delivery optimization.

• Coordinate SMS and email orchestration to optimize cross-channel messaging sequences, managing timing and frequency to prevent audience fatigue.

• Design trigger-based SMS programs for time-sensitive updates, alerts, and event-driven communications across the customer lifecycle.

• Monitor carrier-level delivery performance, identifying and resolving issues by carrier to maintain high deliverability rates.

• Identify new SMS capabilities and emerging messaging technologies, translating them into actionable test proposals and implementation plans.

• Organic Social Media Execution & Optimization

• Execute organic social media campaigns across platforms such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and other relevant channels for a broad range of brands and products.

• Develop platform-specific content approaches recognizing different audience behaviors, content formats, and algorithmic requirements across LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and emerging platforms.

• Conduct social listening to monitor brand mentions, sentiment trends, and trending topics, surfacing insights that inform content strategy and messaging.

• Coordinate organic social content calendars with campaign timelines, product launches, and cultural moments, ensuring consistent publishing cadence.

• Proactively report on organic social performance by platform and brand, providing data-driven improvement recommendations on content mix, posting cadence, and engagement tactics.

• Performance Analytics & Cross-Channel Optimization

• Conduct performance monitoring across email, SMS, and organic social channels, tracking deliverability, engagement, conversion, and audience growth metrics.

• Develop and maintain cross-channel performance dashboards offering visibility into trends, audience responsiveness, and campaign effectiveness.

• Execute A/B and multivariate tests across all three channels, documenting results and socializing learnings with the broader team.

• Identify new industry trends and technologies impacting email, SMS, and social channels, and translate them into actionable plans for improving campaign performance.

• Contribute to the innovation roadmap for channel technologies, automation capabilities, and platform features, evaluating new tools for potential adoption.

What’s in It for You?
Here’s a sneak peek at the benefits you could experience as a Cox employee:

• A competitive salary and top-notch bonus/incentive plans.

• Exceptional work-life balance, flexible time-off policies and accommodating work schedules.

• Comprehensive healthcare, with multiple options for individuals and…