Senior Cold Outbound Specialist

About the role:

We are looking for a Senior Cold Outbound Specialist to join our Influencer Marketing Department. This role is essential to the technical management and execution of massive cold outreach campaigns (10,000–20,000+ emails per day). We're looking for someone deeply experienced in cold email operations, deliverability, and infrastructure who can ensure our emails hit the inbox, not the spam folder

About us:

Advantage HQ is a tech-enabled growth firm helping leading brands scale profitably and predictably. We combine full-service performance marketing with proprietary tech, including:

• A creator marketplace managing over 80,000 influencer partnerships monthly
• An AI-powered platform to streamline discovery, outreach, and whitelisting
• Proven playbooks in influencer marketing, paid media, performance creative, and CRO

We’re trusted by 200+ high-growth DTC brands across beauty, wellness, lifestyle, and health. Our team of 100+ growth operators, analysts, and creatives manages over $500M in annual media spend and drives meaningful bottom-line impact for our partners.

Responsibilities:

• Monitor and optimize email deliverability (open/click/reply rates)
• Warm up and manage multiple domains, inboxes, and sending infrastructure
• Identify and troubleshoot deliverability issues (e.g., spam flags, blacklists)
• Work across email platforms such as Smartlead, Quickmail, Instantly, HubSpot, Klaviyo, Salesforce, etc.
• Evaluate and integrate AI or automation tools to enhance outreach efficiency
• Support internal teams with campaign diagnostics and performance reporting

Ideal candidate profile

• 3+ years of experience in email marketing, ideally focused on cold outbound
• Proven track record managing massive-scale email campaigns (10k–20k/day)
• Advanced knowledge of email infrastructure, domain warming, and DNS config
• Skilled in technical troubleshooting, analytics, and optimizing email metrics
• Experience working with a wide range of email platforms such as Smartlead, Quickmail, Instantly, HubSpot, Klaviyo, Salesforce, etc.
• Familiarity with inbox rotation, subdomains, and reply routing systems
• Strong understanding of AI-driven tools and automation workflows used to improve outreach efficiency, personalization, and deliverability at scale
• Self-motivated, detail-oriented, and comfortable operating independently

Compensation:

The compensation range is $1,000-$1,200 USD a month.

This role is a contracted role, candidates should be prepared to operate as self-employed contractors. 

Location:

All of our team is working completely remotely. Yes, that’s right! Work remotely from wherever you want! We’ll make sure your working experience is as comfortable as possible!