Team Lead, Email Deliverability (Chicago)

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At Braze, we have found our people. We’re a genuinely approachable, exceptionally kind, and intensely passionate crew.

We seek to ignite that passion by setting high standards, championing teamwork, and creating work-life harmony as we collectively navigate rapid growth on a global scale while striving for greater equity and opportunity – inside and outside our organization.

To flourish here, you must be prepared to set a high bar for yourself and those around you. There is always a way to contribute: Acting with autonomy, having accountability and being open to new perspectives are essential to our continued success.

Our deep curiosity to learn and our eagerness to share diverse passions with others gives us balance and injects a one-of-a-kind vibrancy into our culture.

If you are driven to solve exhilarating challenges and have a bias toward action in the face of change, you will be empowered to make a real impact here, with a sharp and passionate team at your back. If Braze sounds like a place where you can thrive, we can’t wait to meet you.

Braze helps customers to create memorable experiences between consumers and the brands they love. Email is a core channel for our customers. To ensure email communications have the best opportunity to reach their intended recipients, we have an amazing team of email deliverability experts who help to educate on industry concepts, analyze deliverability indicators, advise on email best practices, and support customers through deliverability issues. We are looking for a technically-versed email deliverability subject-matter expert with experience nurturing and supporting expert deliverability consultants to join our team. As Team Lead, Email Deliverability, you will lead a regional team of customer-facing deliverability experts and own a book of business. With your customers and alongside your team, you will promote best practices and generate recommendations to improve clients’ email programs to maximize their impact through Braze. 

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Provide advanced deliverability support to our customers and our internal teams.
• Carry and service a small portfolio of assigned customers with a paid Deliverability Services Consulting entitlement;
• Oversee, nurture, and grow a small team of regionally-based deliverability consultants through day-to-day interactions and long-term career development
• Interface directly with prospects and customers, leveraging email deliverability expertise and leadership skills to help build strong relationships and foster trust
• Function as an escalation point for the regional team to support customers through deliverability issues, as well as increase customer value and retention
• Aid in long-term, strategic deliverability planning for high-touch, high-visibility brands that send from the Braze email infrastructure
• Partner with cross-functional teams, like Customer Success, Technical Support, Sales, and Growth, to develop and iterate on strategies that improve Braze teams and our customer experience
• Ideate on and lead strategic projects that help to mature process, product, thought leadership, or customer education

WHO YOU ARE

• Experience coaching or mentoring email deliverability consultants to influence great team culture, high employee satisfaction, long-term employee retention, and excellent team performance
• Very strong understanding of the email deliverability space, including technical concepts and best practice deliverability strategies
• A well-demonstrated, consultative approach to deliverability issue analysis, root cause identification, and high client satisfaction throughout issue support
• High familiarity in coordinating with mailbox providers, blocklist operators, and filtering companies to understand the evolving email landscape and navigate challenging deliverability outcomes
• Proven experience in identifying and implementing process optimization and transformation in order to increase process efficiency, reduce time-to-market & support scalability
• Excellent communication skills, able to work with, influence, and align with multiple stakeholders
• A strong mindset of problem-solving with multiple operational tools

For candidates based in the United States, the pay range for this position at the start of employment is expected to be between $88,000 and $145,000/year, with an expected On Target Earnings (OTE) between $103,000 and $171,000/year (including bonus or commission). Your exact offer may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. In addition to cash compensation, this role qualifies for a comprehensive Total Rewards package that includes equity grants of restricted stock (RSUs) so that you will own a piece of our company.

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WHAT WE OFFER

Braze benefits vary by location, and we encourage you to review our specific benefits offerings for each country here . More details on benefits plans will be provided if you receive an offer of employment.

From offering comprehensive benefits to fostering hybrid ways of working, we’ve got you covered so you can prioritize work-life harmony. Braze offers benefits such as:

• Competitive compensation that may include equity
• Retirement and Employee Stock Purchase Plans
• Flexible paid time off
• Comprehensive benefit plans covering medical, dental, vision, life, and disability
• Family services that include fertility benefits and equal paid parental leave
• Professional development supported by formal career pathing, learning platforms, and a yearly learning stipend
• A curated in-office employee experience, designed to foster community, team connections, and innovation
• Opportunities to give back to your community, including an annual company-wide Volunteer Week and donation matching 
• Employee Resource Groups that provide supportive communities within Braze
• Collaborative, transparent, and fun culture recognized as a Great Place to Work®

ABOUT BRAZE

Braze is the leading customer engagement platform that empowers brands to Be Absolutely Engaging™. Braze helps brands deliver great customer experiences that drive value both for consumers and for their businesses. Built on a foundation of composable intelligence, BrazeAI™ allows marketers to combine and activate AI agents, models, and features at every touchpoint throughout the Braze Customer Engagement Platform for smarter, faster, and more meaningful customer engagement. From cross-channel messaging and journey orchestration to Al-powered decisioning and optimization, Braze enables companies to turn action into interaction through autonomous, 1:1 personalized experiences.

The company has been consistently recognized as a Leader in marketing technology by industry analysts, and was named a G2 “Best of Marketing and Digital Advertising Software Product” in 2026. Braze was also named a 2026 Best Places to Work by Built In, a 2025 America’s Greenest Companies by Newsweek, and a 2025 Fortune Best Workplace in Technology™ by Great Place To Work®. Braze is also proudly certified as a Great Place to Work® in the U.S., the UK, Australia, and Singapore. 

The company is headquartered in New York with offices in Austin, Berlin, Bucharest, Chicago, Dubai, Jakarta, London, Paris, San Francisco, São Paulo, Singapore, Seoul, Sydney and Tokyo.

BRAZE IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

At Braze, we strive to create equitable growth and opportunities inside and outside the organization.

Building meaningful connections is at the heart of everything we do, and that includes our recruiting practices. We're committed to offering all candidates a fair, accessible, and inclusive experience – regardless of age, color, disability, gender identity, marital status, maternity, national origin, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or status as a protected veteran. When applying and interviewing with Braze, we want you to feel comfortable showcasing what makes you you.

We know that sometimes different circumstances can lead talented people to hesitate to apply for a role unless they meet 100% of the criteria. If this sounds familiar, we encourage you to apply, as we’d love to meet you.

OUR AI-POWERED BRAZE RECRUITMENT PROCESS

At Braze, we’re committed to a fair and transparent candidate experience. To help our recruitment teams focus on what matters most — the person behind each application — we use AI-assisted tools at certain stages of our recruitment process. 

This includes using AI to analyze the experience, skills and qualifications in your application materials to help with screening and prioritizing candidates. Such screening may amount to a form of solely automated decision-making. We also use AI for administrative support, like scheduling and recording interviews and summarizing interview notes. Our recruiting teams remain responsible for all hiring decisions and are involved throughout the process.

Depending on where you are located, you may have the right to request further information about how AI is used in our recruitment process, to opt out of AI-assisted review, to request a manual review of any decision made or to contest a decision. 

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