Marketing Operations Lead

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About Our Team

The Washington Post is powered by the passion and talent of our people. It takes all of us to reinvent news. Beyond our award-winning Newsroom and Opinions teams, we work across many departments, including Brand & Events, Communications, Customer Care, Engineering & Product, Finance, Human Resources, Legal, Marketing & Advertising, Print Operations, and Sales.

Why This Role Matters

The Washington Post is seeking a Marketing Operations Lead to support the strategic planning and execution of omnichannel marketing campaigns using advanced marketing technology platforms, with a focus on paying user acquisition, engagement, retention, and upselling. This role will serve as a key member of the marketing operations function, working closely with internal cross-functional teams, including engineering, product, and analytics. You'll focus on providing operational support across the B2C and B2B subscriptions business, identifying optimization opportunities, troubleshooting issues, and collaborating with various stakeholders to drive business results.

• You want to support, influence, and implement the strategies driving subscriptions marketing at The Post. You are invested in affecting customer behavior through marketing campaigns aimed at acquiring new paying users and retaining and upselling our current subscriber base.
• You enjoy translating business needs into technical solutions, leveraging marketing platforms, APIs, and data pipelines to execute and optimize campaigns.
• You thrive in cross-functional environments, partnering with Engineering, Product, and Analytics to ensure reliable data flow and system integrations.
• You bring a strong analytical mindset, using data validation, testing, and insights to improve campaign performance and system efficiency.
• You are motivated to future-proof marketing by building AI-driven workflows that automate repetitive tasks, enable self-service campaign execution, and support real-time personalization and decisioning..
• You are energized by solving complex problems and continuously improving systems, collaborating with technical teams to enhance the scalability and reliability of marketing operations.

How You'll Support the Mission

• Provide operational support to the B2C and B2B Subscriptions teams, working closely with internal technical teams across Engineering, Product, and Analytics to ensure seamless execution of marketing campaigns.
• Assist in the development, QA, and deployment of omnichannel campaigns, including validating test scenarios, debugging payloads, and ensuring accuracy across conditional logic, edge cases, and dynamic content.
• Work with real-time and batch data flows, including APIs, webhooks, and content feeds, to test, troubleshoot, and validate event data and ensure proper ingestion into marketing systems.
• Inspect and manipulate JSON payloads to verify data integrity, support dynamic personalization, and troubleshoot issues across campaign workflows and integrations.
• Help build and maintain audience segments, data pipelines, custom events, user attributes, and conversion tracking in Iterable, and collaborate with Product, Engineering and Analytics teams to enable real-time event ingestion and unlock omnichannel capabilities.
• Create and maintain documentation and training materials to support the Subscriptions team in their use of marketing technology platforms and tools. Manage overall data hygiene, including list and attribute audits, to ensure documentation is always up to date and that new materials are added as necessary to maintain consistency.
• Serve as a key point of contact for the Subscriptions team, providing guidance on best practices for using Iterable and creating omnichannel marketing campaigns, and fostering a team culture of self-service marketing.
• Act as a strategic and systems-oriented partner to marketing teams, ensuring best practices in campaign setup, data usage, and overall marketing technology operations.

The Skills and Experience You Bring

• 3-4 years of experience in marketing operations, marketing automation, or marketing technology roles with exposure to system integrations and campaign execution pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with omnichannel marketing platforms (Iterable, Braze, SFMC, ActionIQ, or similar), including building workflows, managing event-triggered campaigns, and debugging campaign execution issues.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs, webhook configurations, and data integration patterns, including working with JSON payloads, API authentication, and real-time/batch data feeds between systems.
• Strong understanding of data structures and formats, including JSON, with experience manipulating dynamic content using templating languages such as Handlebars or Liquid. Working knowledge of HTML/CSS for email and frontend rendering. SQL experience is a plus.
• Basic to intermediate SQL experience for querying and validating marketing and customer data; ability to support data analysis and troubleshooting efforts.
• Experience working with customer data platforms (CDPs), event tracking frameworks, and identity resolution, as well as implementing segmentation strategies and marketing attribution models.
• Interest in emerging technologies, including AI/ML applications in marketing (e.g., predictive modeling, recommendation systems, NLP-driven personalization).

Collaboration makes us stronger. That's why our offices are designed with open layouts, modern technology, and easy access to transportation. With certain exceptions for newsgathering and business travel, we work on-site five days a week.

Compensation and Benefits

Wherever you are in your life or career, The Washington Post offers comprehensive and inclusive benefits for every step of your journey:

• Competitive medical, dental and vision coverage
• Company-paid pension and 401(k) match
• Three weeks of vacation and up to three weeks of paid sick leave
• Nine paid holidays and two personal days
• 20 weeks paid parental leave for any new parent
• Robust mental health resources
• Backup care and caregiver concierge services
• Gender affirming services
• Pet insurance
• Free Post digital subscription
• Leadership and career development programs

Benefits may vary based on the job, full-time or part-time schedule, location, and collectively bargained status.

The salary range for this position is:
$85,100 - $127,700 Annual

The actual salary within this range will depend on individual skills, experience, and qualifications as they relate to specific job requirements. This position may be eligible for a bonus or incentive program, and a member of the Talent Acquisition team will discuss bonus payment terms and conditions during the interview process.

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