Email Developer
Horizontal Talent · San Francisco, CA · 2 mo ago
RemoteRemoteEngineering$113–$160/hrContract
About the role
Join a fast-moving lifecycle marketing technology team as an Email Developer, where you’ll own and evolve an AI-enabled email development platform that helps scale high-quality communications across global audiences. This hands-on role blends technical ownership, collaboration, and strategic thinking to improve email production workflows, build reusable systems, and support international templating needs.
Responsibilities
- Own and improve an existing email development tool, with a focus on scaling its capabilities and increasing production quality
- Partner with design, marketing technology, and engineering teams to translate visual designs into production-ready email HTML
- Build and maintain a modular component library for common email elements such as headers, footers, CTAs, content sections, and image blocks
- Create email templates that work across multiple marketing automation platforms, including Iterable and HubSpot
- Support platform-specific requirements such as merge tags, HubL, and fields.json implementation
- Establish and refine QA processes to validate rendering across major email clients and devices
- Help ensure templates meet accessibility standards and support inclusive, usable email experiences
- Develop documentation, usage guides, and training materials to support team adoption and consistency
- Collaborate on international template needs, including localized variants and market-specific rendering considerations
- Balance ongoing support requests with longer-term platform improvements and workflow efficiency
Skills
- 6-8+ years of professional email development experience
- Strong expertise in HTML, CSS, and MJML for email development
- Hands-on experience with Iterable and/or HubSpot
- Experience building and maintaining reusable email component libraries or design systems
- Deep understanding of email rendering behavior across major clients, especially Outlook
- Experience implementing dark mode considerations in email
- Ability to work independently, manage priorities, and deliver within a structured timeline
- Clear written communication skills for documentation and async collaboration
- Ability to collaborate effectively across functions and contribute to team leadership when needed
Preferred Skills
- Experience supporting email localization for markets such as Korea, Japan, Germany, and France
- Familiarity with CJK font stacks, line-height adjustments, and text expansion planning
- Experience with Figma or other design-to-code workflows
- Background in lifecycle marketing or product marketing email programs
- Exposure to AI tools or AI-enabled workflows in email development
- Experience working in fast-paced environments where priorities may shift quickly
- Experience supporting high-volume email programs with broad reach
Schedule
10 hours/week | Pacific Time (PT)
Pay
The pay range for this role is $113 - $160 per hour based on qualifications and experience.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Retirement benefits