About the Opportunity
Job SummaryThe Marketing Automation Manager leads the Marketing Operations team and serves as the organization’s subject-matter expert in Technolutions Slate for marketing. This hands-on leadership role is suited to a technically savvy, detail-oriented, and resourceful professional who can manage people while directly contributing to the work. The position directs email marketing efforts, supports events across multiple event platforms, integrates Slate with other online marketing tools, and oversees workflows, prospect data, audience segmentation, lead management, reporting, dashboards, and system documentation.
Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities
Marketing Operations and Process Management
- Develop, document, and enforce business processes to ensure appropriate setup, reporting, documentation, training, and adherence to governance standards
- Analyze, design, and implement effective workflows that streamline marketing operations
- Define and execute improvements that enhance productivity, efficiency, and scalability for marketing operations users
- Onboard new software and processes, connect application programming interfaces (APIs), and store user data
- Create, maintain, and regularly update accurate and comprehensive system and process documentation
Day-to-Day Marketing Operations Support
- Assign work and ensure it is completed accurately and on time
- Conduct reporting, testing, and analysis to support and improve processes and business workflows
- Collaborate with marketing teams to enhance and troubleshoot the lead management process and integrations with marketing automation platforms
- Monitor, audit, identify, and resolve prospect data accuracy, quality, and integrity issues
- Support bulk data imports
- Optimize data quality using automated programs that perform regular data hygiene activities
- Recommend audience segmentation and targeting approaches
- Oversee data querying, targeting, and lead scoring
Marketing Automation Stakeholder Support
- Provide marketing automation support for stakeholders in EM
- Support digital marketing automation solutions in Slate that provide engagement insights from acquisition through advocacy, measure results, and help stakeholders connect and engage with customers
- Advise stakeholders on the technical setup of campaigns and templates
- Continuously analyze and identify new ways to build and nurture the prospective student pipeline and support business growth
- Design and implement business process models that support the technical execution of automated tactics
- Apply knowledge of the marketing mix and integrated marketing principles and strategy to campaign and stakeholder support
- Guide the creation of reports and dashboards covering lead generation and marketing attribution to support data-informed decision-making
- Support events across multiple event platforms and integrate Slate with other online marketing tools
Marketing Operations Team Supervision
- Lead and manage the Marketing Operations team
- Provide coaching and mentorship to Marketing Operations staff
- Conduct performance evaluations and support performance improvement and staff professional development
- Perform other duties as assigned
Minimum Qualifications
Required
- Bachelor’s degree
- Five years of marketing automation experience using Slate
- Experience managing a group of contributors
- Experience with all aspects of the marketing mix and with integrated marketing principles and strategy
- Expertise in Slate tools, HTML, CSS, and Liquid markup and conditional logic
- Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills, including the ability to identify gaps, research solutions, implement plans, and assess performance
- Confident and proactive management skills, with exceptional attention to process and detail
- Ability to effectively manage staff and multiple concurrent projects, including requirements gathering, design, project planning, and project management, in a dynamic, high-pressure environment
- Proven ability to communicate complex ideas and data clearly to nontechnical audiences
- Ability to understand business needs and translate them into technical requirements
- Strong teamwork and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Adaptability to changing market and organizational needs
Position Type
Information TechnologyAdditional Information
Northeastern University considers factors such as candidate work experience, education and skills when extending an offer.
Northeastern has a comprehensive benefits package for benefit eligible employees. This includes medical, vision, dental, paid time off, tuition assistance, wellness & life, retirement- as well as commuting & transportation. Visit https://hr.northeastern.edu/benefits/ for more information.
All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Compensation Grade/Pay Type:
109SExpected Hiring Range:
$67,855.00 - $95,845.00With the pay range(s) shown above, the starting salary will depend on several factors, which may include your education, experience, location, knowledge and expertise, and skills as well as a pay comparison to similarly-situated employees already in the role. Salary ranges are reviewed regularly and are subject to change.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- Five years of marketing automation experience using Technolutions Slate
- Experience managing a group of contributors
- Experience with the marketing mix and integrated marketing principles and strategy
- Expertise in Slate tools, HTML, CSS, Liquid markup, and conditional logic
- Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills
- Management skills with strong attention to process and detail
- Ability to manage staff and multiple concurrent projects, including requirements gathering, design, project planning, and project management
- Ability to communicate complex ideas and data clearly to nontechnical audiences
- Ability to understand business needs and translate them into technical requirements
- Strong teamwork and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Adaptability to changing market and organizational needs
Northeastern University Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Northeastern University and has not been reviewed or approved by Northeastern University.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off is described as extensive, including 22–26 vacation days, 12 sick days, 13 holidays, and paid parental leave for birth/adoption. Additional paid leave is also outlined, including up to 26 weeks of paid medical leave and up to 12 weeks of paid family leave for eligible employees.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as a standout, with an employer contribution described as 10% when an employee contributes 5%, alongside immediate vesting once eligible. This is presented as unusually generous relative to typical employer retirement offerings.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-oriented benefits are emphasized through tuition assistance for employees and dependents and access to backup childcare and family-care resources. Tuition remission/discount structures are highlighted as a major value driver, especially for employees with children and for long-tenured staff.
Northeastern University Insights
What We Do
Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university with a distinctive, experience-driven approach to education and discovery. The university is a leader in experiential learning, powered by the world’s most far-reaching cooperative education program. We integrate classroom study with opportunities for professional work, research, service, and global learning in more than 100 countries. The same spirit of collaboration guides a use-inspired research enterprise focused on solving global challenges in health, security, and sustainability. Northeastern offers a comprehensive array of undergraduate and graduate programs leading to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools, and select graduate programs at campuses in Boston, Charlotte, N.C., San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, and Toronto. Campuses in Burlington, MA, and Nahant, MA, are home to research institutes for homeland security and coastal sustainability, respectively





