Earnest empowers ambitious professionals to make confident financial decisions and build the life they envision.
Earnies are committed to helping borrowers move forward with confidence by offering smarter borrowing options with a clearer path to taking control of their debt. If you’re as passionate as we are about our mission, read more below, and let’s build something great together.
The Senior Marketing Operations Specialist will report to the Senior Analytics Manager.
This is a high-visibility, high-impact individual contributor role. You won’t just be architecting the strategy. You’ll be rolling up your sleeves to build, execute, and own it end-to-end.
As the Senior Marketing Operations Specialist, you will:
- Sit at the intersection of marketing, engineering, and analytics - acting as a translator who turns complex marketing strategies into technical requirements, infrastructure, and scalable solutions.
- Serve as the primary owner of our enterprise ESP (Braze) - managing data inflows and outflows, CDP integrations, and unsubscribe governance to ensure a best-in-class orchestration.
- Function as our end-to-end Ad Operations team - setting up event passback to paid ad platforms, installing and configuring tracking pixels, and strategizing on how to optimize spend efficiency through our event implementation.
- Oversee the operational lifecycle of campaigns from inception to delivery - establishing UTM tracking guidelines, designing scalable data ingestion processes, and building ESP infrastructure that empowers rapid experimentation.
- Implement robust campaign monitoring, delivery alerting, and validation frameworks to ensure flawless technical setup and message execution.
- Champion data governance, documentation, and deliverability best practices across our martech stack, ensuring full compliance with CAN-SPAM and safeguarding IP and domain health.
- Drive innovation across our lifecycle messaging channels, building advanced personalization capabilities that allow us to engage customers in unique, timely, and meaningful ways.
About You:
- You bring 5+ years of experience governing enterprise ESPs and CDPs (Braze experience is a major plus), managing data inflows and outflows, and maintaining data hygiene.
- You have 2+ years of hands-on experience owning Ad Operations execution, including setting up pixel configurations, server-side tracking, and targeting parameters across a variety of channels (Search, Social, Display, OTT, etc).
- You possess strong, fluent SQL skills and are comfortable querying, transforming, and modeling complex datasets to support targeting and custom audiences.
- You are a rare hybrid, equal parts marketer, engineer, and analyst, with an exceptional ability to translate marketing strategy into technical architecture and execution plans.
- You have strong working knowledge of email deliverability best practices, IP/domain health management, and regulatory frameworks such as CAN-SPAM.
Even Better:
- Experience with Braze Liquid logic, Connected Content, and complex canvas/journey orchestration.
- Experience in highly regulated fields, such as financial services, that operate under limited targeting constraints.
- Familiarity working with modern data stack (e.g. Snowflake, dbt, Looker, Segment).
Where:
- This role will be based in the US.
Compensation:
A little about our pay philosophy: We take pride in compensating our employees fairly and equitably. We are showcasing a range of your potential base salary based on the roles location. The successful candidate’s starting pay will also be determined based on job-related qualifications, internal compensation, candidate location and budget. This range may be modified in the future.
Salary Range: $157,000 - $196,000 USD. Employees are also eligible for an annual performance-based bonus and equity.
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Earnest believes in enabling our employees to live their best lives. We offer a variety of perks and competitive benefits, including:
- Health, Dental, & Vision benefits plus savings plans
- Mac computers + work-from-home stipend to set up your home office
- Monthly internet and phone reimbursement
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
- 401(k) plan to help you save for retirement plus a company match
- Robust tuition reimbursement program
- $1,000 travel perk on each Earnie-versary to anywhere in the world
- Competitive days of annual PTO
- Competitive parental leave
What Makes an Earnie:
At Earnest, our people bring our cultural principles to life. These principles define how we work, how we win, and what we expect of ourselves and each other:
- Every Second Counts: Speed is our competitive advantage. Our customers need better solutions, and the faster we execute, the greater our chance of success.
- Choose To Do Hard Things: We win by tackling the hard things that others avoid, fueled by grit and resilience.
- Pursue Excellence: Great companies, teams, and individuals never settle and are proud of the work that they do. What’s good enough today won’t be good enough tomorrow. Excellence isn’t a destination; it’s a mindset of continuous improvement.
- Lead Together: Our success comes from how we work together. Leadership is not about titles—it is about action. We take ownership, drive results, and move forward as a team.
- Don’t Take Yourself Too Seriously: We take our work seriously, not ourselves. The stakes are high, but a sense of humor keeps us grounded, creative, and resilient.
At Earnest, we are committed to building an environment where our employees feel included, valued, and heard. Our belief is that a strong commitment to diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging enables us to move forward with our mission. We are dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team and encourage anyone to apply if your experience is close to what we are looking for.
Earnest provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or genetics. Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for the position in a manner consistent with the Fair Chance Ordinance.
Skills Required
- 5+ years governing enterprise ESPs and CDPs (managing data inflows/outflows and data hygiene)
- Braze experience
- 2+ years hands-on Ad Operations execution (pixel configurations, server-side tracking, channel targeting)
- Experience owning enterprise ESP operational lifecycle, including unsubscribe governance and campaign orchestration
- Fluent SQL skills for querying, transforming, and modeling complex datasets
- Ability to translate marketing strategy into technical architecture and execution plans
- Working knowledge of email deliverability best practices, IP/domain health management, and CAN-SPAM compliance
- Experience with Braze Liquid logic, Connected Content, and complex canvas/journey orchestration
- Experience in highly regulated fields (e.g., financial services) with limited targeting constraints
- Familiarity with modern data stack (Snowflake, dbt, Looker, Segment)
Earnest Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Earnest and has not been reviewed or approved by Earnest.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Compensation is considered competitive for many roles and locations, with bonuses and long‑term incentives contributing to total pay. Public postings show explicit salary ranges that help set expectations across functions.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off is described as generous for both exempt and non‑exempt employees. Additional elements like paid holidays, sick time, volunteer time, and flexible schedules strengthen time‑away access.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — A remote‑first model, home‑office stipends, monthly internet/phone reimbursement, and Mac hardware support day‑to‑day flexibility. A distinctive annual travel credit on work anniversaries adds meaningful lifestyle value.
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What We Do
We empower past, present, and soon-to-be students to maximize their financial futures through thoughtful guidance and impactful products. We build tools that help people feel in control of their financial future, including: 1. Student Loan Refinancing - break free from high interest rates or monthly payments. 2. Private Student Loans - low rates, people-first service, and flexible payments. 3. Debt Management - manage all your accounts and become debt-free sooner. 4. Scholarships - access to thousands of scholarships to help students pay less.
Why Work With Us
We strive to maintain and strengthen diversity and inclusion through employee-led Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that empower our Earnies to step into leadership roles and drive our culture. Through ERGs, and with the support of our Executives, we provide a safe space for all Earnies to be their true selves.
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