Email Developer

Working at Regis University

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Job Summary:
The Email Developer is responsible for building, maintaining, and managing Regis University’s portfolio of email marketing campaigns and landing page assets, including forms and preference-management experiences. This role integrates audience segmentation, dynamic content, data analytics, reporting, and domain health monitoring to ensure high deliverability and engagement. As a critical Strategic Marketing and Communications team member, the Email Developer ensures mobile-first design and accessibility compliance and continuously enhances user experience. This role oversees comprehensive spam testing, deliverability strategy, and in-depth data analysis, working closely with team members and work-study students to support quality assurance (QA) and deliver results that align with university goals. The role also provides expertise in crafting subject lines, preview text, and student-centered email copy; supports SMS strategy and serves as a backup for bulk SMS deployment under the direction of the Associate Director, Marketing Automation.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

Email and Landing Page Development and Quality Assurance

- Utilize HTML/CSS and email marketing best practices to create and code interactive and mobile-friendly email experiences, maintaining up-to-date knowledge of email coding standards to enhance engagement and user interaction.
- Perform rigorous QA testing across diverse devices, email clients, and ISPs to ensure accessibility, consistent rendering, and an optimized user experience.
- Coordinate with work-study students to streamline QA processes and uphold quality standards.
- Develop and test audience-specific dynamic content in emails and landing pages.
- Validate landing page functionality, accessibility, mobile responsiveness, form submissions, data updates, and tracking before launch.

Deliverability and Performance Optimization

- Lead advanced spam and deliverability testing using tools like Google Postmasters and inbox placement platforms to improve engagement and reduce spam rates.
- Monitor deliverability trends across major providers (e.g., Gmail, Yahoo) and implement strategies to achieve high inbox placement.
- Collaborate weekly with team members to brainstorm and refine deliverability tactics, expanding reach and improving email performance with year-over-year analysis.
- Enhance email authentication and deliverability by managing DNS settings, including SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records.
- Reduce the risk of spam flagging and improve email reputation through advanced DNS management.

Data Analysis and Reporting

- Analyze and interpret deliverability and engagement metrics to inform A/B testing strategies, identifying and implementing insights that drive measurable improvements in email performance, such as open rates and click rates.
- Generate detailed weekly reports tracking email metrics, spam complaints, click performance, and A/B test results.
- Provide ad hoc reports to support strategic decisions and ongoing performance assessment.
- Analyze audience-segment performance and test subject lines, preview text, calls to action, and landing page experiences to improve engagement and conversion.

Strategic Planning and Collaboration

- Utilize historical performance data, best practices, and innovative approaches to recommend improvements for email campaigns.
- Focus on enhancing content, layout, and deliverability based on past results and evolving strategies.
- Offer expertise in email production best practices, design, layout, messaging, and deliverability to project managers and creative teams, aligning email strategies with university objectives.
- Provide strategic insights on best practices in email development and emerging technologies to enhance user engagement.
- Review and recommend revisions to email copy, subject lines, preview text, and calls to action to ensure student-centered, actionable messaging consistent with university brand and campaign objectives; collaborate with content owners and creative teams on improvements.
- Support SMS strategy and audience segmentation, and serve as a backup for bulk SMS deployment, under the direction of the Associate Director, Marketing Automation.

Compliance and Project Management

- Ensure compliance with email privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, CAN-SPAM), incorporating industry-leading security practices to protect user data and uphold high standards of email safety.
- Effectively manage project timelines in Wrike to ensure timely and organized email campaign deployment, supporting the team’s objectives independently and reliably.
- Maintain adherence to project deadlines in alignment with enrollment objectives.
- Maintain current standard operating procedures and onboarding resources for email development, landing pages, segmentation, QA, reporting, and backup SMS deployment, including recorded demonstrations where helpful.

Additional Responsibilities

- Support the evolving objectives of the Enrollment Management team by taking on additional tasks and contributing to overall strategic goals as needed.
- Stay current on trends and best practices in email development, deliverability, and emerging technologies, applying these insights to improve user engagement.

Required Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline, or equivalent amount of relevant experience including design development and testing (must explain relevancy of experience)
- 3+ years of hands-on experience creating HTML emails. St
- Advanced understanding of web development tools and technologies such as CSS, JM1 and Photoshop.
- Experience with HTML authoring tools.
- Experience developing emails with dynamic content.
- Experience performing extensive testing for rendering and accessibility compliance.
- Experience developing mobile responsive emails and landing pages.
- Experience integrating multimedia (video, audio, animation) into landing pages.
- Knowledgeable of email compliance regulations.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Ability to interact effectively with various people and departments in collaborative settings.
- Strong organizational skills, attention to detail and precision in work.
- Demonstrated ability to build and test marketing landing pages, forms, and dynamic content that support lead capture, communication preferences, and campaign conversion.
- Knowledge of audience segmentation and personalization for relevant, targeted communications.
- Demonstrated ability to evaluate and improve student-centered email copy, subject lines, preview text, and calls to action for engagement.

Preferred Qualifications (Any of these would be helpful.):

- Strong proficiency in JavaScript
- Experience working on teams that leverage project management methodologies.
- Experience in any of the following: Pardot, Node JavaScript and Express templating frameworks, CRM and form integration, relational databases, scripting languages like ASP and PHP
- Experience supporting bulk SMS campaigns, including audience segmentation, deployment, consent and preference management, and performance analysis.
- Experience building landing pages and forms in Pardot, including conditional content and CRM-connected communication preference updates.

This position will remain posted until filled, with a preferred application deadline of November 9th, 2026. Applications received by this date will receive full consideration.

Special Instructions to Applicants:
Please submit a resume, cover letter and list of references with your application. Current employees, please submit an application by logging into Workday. Click on Organization>Jobs Hub to access the internal site.

Regis University offers a broad range of benefits that includes:

- Comprehensive group health insurance, including medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance.
- A generous tuition benefit for employees, spouses and dependents
- Paid Mission leave to allow our employees to engage in acts of service or to have time for personal reflection.
- The "Gift of Time" when Regis closes between Christmas Day and New Year's Day.
- Options for flexible work arrangements based on position.

You can learn more about our benefits by clicking the links below.

26-27 Employee Benefits Summary or

https://www.regis.edu/_documents/about/offices-and-services/human-resources/regis-university-employee-benefits-guide.pdf

Pay Rate:
$55,000 - $63,000/ annually, commensurate with qualifications

Application Deadline:
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