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Email Infrastructure & Deliverability Lead (contract)
Posted 28 days agoViewed
💎 Seniority level: Lead, 5+ years
📍 Location: United States
🔍 Industry: SaaS
🏢 Company: Apollo.io👥 501-1000💰 $100,000,000 Series D over 1 year agoSoftware Development
🗣️ Languages: English
⏳ Experience: 5+ years
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience owning deliverability for large-scale email operations (10M+ sends/month).
- Strong knowledge of SPF, DKIM, DMARC, BIMI, and emerging authentication protocols.
- Hands-on experience with deliverability tools like Google Postmaster, MXToolbox, Everest, 250ok, and leading ESPs (SendGrid, Mailgun, etc.).
- Proven track record of resolving spam traps, blacklistings, and sender reputation challenges.
- Ability to interpret inbox placement rates, bounce metrics, and engagement data to drive strategic optimizations.
- Passionate about staying ahead of ISP algorithm updates (Gmail, Microsoft, Yahoo), MTA behaviors, and new standards like TLS-RPT.
- You thrive in 0-to-1 environments, creating scalable solutions from scratch.
- If you successfully navigated the 2024 Gmail/Yahoo mass-filtering crisis, we want to hear your story.
Responsibilities:
- Audit and fortify Apollo’s email infrastructure: Optimize IP warmup, domain rotation, and list hygiene automation.
- Build and implement proactive monitoring systems for blacklists, spam complaints, and reputation shifts.
- Partner with Engineering to drive the roadmap for improving the effectiveness of Apollos users' email deliverability
- Consult with enterprise clients to diagnose and resolve deliverability challenges.
- Optimize email content (subject lines, CTAs) to maximize inbox placement and engagement.
- Lead high-stakes “Deliverability Rescue” missions for clients experiencing issues.
- Develop transparent, client-facing dashboards to track and improve inbox placement performance.
- Innovate with our R&D teams on developing tools that predict and prevent deliverability risks.
- Experiment with emerging channels: Dark social, BIMI-certified branding, AMP for Email.
- Publish Apollo’s annual “State of Deliverability” report—establishing yourself as an industry authority.
- Contribute to Apollo Academy’s thought leadership initiatives.
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