Role Description
We're migrating an established ecommerce client from Mandrill to Maropost as part of a broader Shopify replatform. We have designers and strategy covered β the gap is a hands-on email developer who can take designs and turn them into production-ready, logic-driven templates inside Maropost.
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Own the build-out of roughly 100 transactional and lifecycle marketing emails:
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Liquid-based templates
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Modular components
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Conditional logic for complex user segments
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Multi-country/multi-language support
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Shopify trigger integration
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Help audit and migrate existing Mandrill flows
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Build and deploy ~100 transactional and lifecycle emails in Maropost:
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Order confirmations
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Shipping notifications
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Refunds
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Cancellations
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Account updates
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Abandoned cart
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Welcome/onboarding
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Reorder flows
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Product review requests
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Promotional campaigns
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Develop a reusable, modular component library plus a global header/footer system aligned with the client's new design system
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Implement Liquid-based dynamic templates with conditional logic for variables like customer type (e.g., preferred customer vs. unaffiliated buyer), autoship vs. non-autoship, affiliate flows, subscription lifecycle events, and lead routing
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Configure multi-country and multi-language localization
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Audit the client's existing Mandrill email inventory and migrate flows to Maropost (or support a hybrid approach if needed)
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Wire up Shopify triggers to Maropost flows; validate end-to-end functionality alongside the broader platform migration
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Coordinate with subscription tooling (Seal Subscriptions) for subscription-related email events
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Support a dedicated QA phase covering business logic variability, localization, deliverability, and rendering across major clients and devices
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Document templates, components, and conditional logic so the client's marketing team can maintain and extend the system post-launch
Qualifications
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3+ years of hands-on email development experience with production builds inside an ESP
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Direct Maropost experience strongly preferred. Will consider experienced developers from Klaviyo, Iterable, Braze, Customer.io, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, or similar platforms if you can ramp quickly
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Prior experience executing an ESP migration, ideally Mandrill β another platform
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Strong command of Liquid templating (or comparable ESP templating languages)
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Expert-level HTML/CSS for email: tables, inline styles, MSO conditional comments, dark mode handling, and responsive techniques that survive Outlook
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Experience integrating an ESP with Shopify (or comparable ecommerce platform), including event-triggered transactional flows
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Comfort translating Figma designs into pixel-faithful production templates
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High attention to detail around conditional logic, edge cases, and localization variants
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Familiarity with email QA tooling (Litmus, Email on Acid, or similar)
Requirements
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Nice to have:
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Maropost certifications or shippable Maropost portfolio work
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Subscription / autoship email flow experience (Seal Subscriptions, ReCharge, Skio, etc.)
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Multi-language / multi-country email programs at scale
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Deliverability fundamentals (SPF, DKIM, DMARC, sender reputation, suppression management)
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Working on migration timelines tied to a larger replatform launch
Benefits
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Type: Contract, with potential to extend into post-launch optimization and remaining marketing campaigns
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Duration: ~2 months of active build; target completion before late-August UAT for a September launch
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Commitment: Full-time preferred; 30+ hours/week minimum
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Location: Remote