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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

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