Cold Email Specialist

Role Description

We’re hiring a highly execution-focused Cold Email Specialist to own client campaign performance, deliverability, retention, and operational execution inside a fast-growing startup environment. This is not a passive account management role.

• Cold email campaign performance
• Inbox placement
• Deliverability troubleshooting
• Campaign optimization
• Client communication
• Retention

You’ll work closely with:

• The founder
• Outreach team
• Developers
• Operations

If you understand cold email beyond basic outreach — including:

• Infrastructure
• Warm-up
• Deliverability
• Copy performance
• Inbox health
• Campaign optimization

This role is a strong fit.

Qualifications

• Experience inside cold email agencies
• Lead generation companies
• Outbound sales environments
• Startup operations
• Strong hands-on expertise in cold email strategy
• Deliverability
• Inbox placement
• Warm-up systems
• Outbound infrastructure
• Strong copywriting ability for outbound campaigns
• Experience troubleshooting spam issues
• Domain reputation
• Low-performing campaigns
• Technical understanding of APIs, automations, workflows, outbound systems
• Daily practical use of AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude)
• Strong communication and client management skills
• Comfortable operating independently in fast-moving environments

Requirements

• Act as the primary point of contact for 20–30 active clients
• Lead client check-ins and performance conversations
• Manage client expectations and campaign updates
• Build strong long-term client relationships
• Proactively identify risks and prevent churn before issues escalate
• Diagnose and optimize underperforming campaigns
• Troubleshoot deliverability issues, inbox placement problems, domain health, spam issues, list quality concerns, low reply rates
• Review and optimize subject lines, messaging, sequencing, personalization
• Quality-check campaigns before launch
• Continuously improve campaign performance and outcomes
• Manage and optimize warm-up systems, inbox reputation, sending domains, DNS setup, SPF / DKIM / DMARC
• Understand how inbox placement impacts results
• Troubleshoot technical campaign issues independently when possible
• Collaborate with technical teams on infrastructure and automation improvements
• Personally write and refine cold email copy
• Improve open rates, reply rates, positive response rates
• Test and iterate messaging based on campaign data
• Balance personalization with scalability
• Build and improve delivery documentation and playbooks
• Maintain organized workflows and campaign tracking
• Track SLAs, client health, campaign metrics, operational performance
• Help create scalable systems as the company grows
• Coordinate campaign execution and troubleshooting
• Report directly to the founder on campaign performance, client risks, retention concerns, operational improvements

Benefits

• High ownership and direct impact on client outcomes
• Work closely with startup leadership and technical teams
• Blend of deliverability, operations, client management, outbound strategy, copywriting
• Opportunity to help scale outbound systems and processes
• Fast-moving environment with strong growth opportunities

Interview Process

• Initial Screening
• Interview with Founder
• Final Discussion
• Offer & Onboarding

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If you understand cold email deeply, know how to improve deliverability and campaign performance, thrive in startup environments, and enjoy owning client outcomes from end to end, this role is a strong fit for you.