Marketing Automation Specialist; Salesforce MCAE

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Vernier Science Education is seeking a Marketing Automation Specialist (Salesforce MCAE) to support effective marketing campaigns that deliver sales and high-quality leads to our sales team to support science education. This role will be responsible for managing and optimizing Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (MCAE/Pardot), supporting campaign execution, maintaining marketing data integrity, and enabling our teams with accurate, actionable insights.

This individual will work closely with Marketing’s Demand Generation and Design teams, as well as the Salesforce administrator, to build, maintain, and optimize campaigns, email programs, nurture journeys, and lifecycle processes. The ideal candidate has a strong technical background with MCAE, excellent organizational skills, and a passion for supporting data-driven marketing.

• Minimum 3+ years of experience with Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (previously Pardot) administration.
• Bachelor’s Degree in related field or equivalent work experience.
• Strong understanding of lead management, segmentation, scoring, and automation workflows.
• Familiarity with Salesforce CRM and marketing-to-sales alignment processes.
• Experience building and deploying emails, automations, and forms. Understand setup for landing pages and how completion actions influence lead scoring.
• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to interpret campaign data and recommend improvements.
• Experience managing confidential and complex data sets in a marketing environment; strong grasp of data security.
• Commitment to equity, inclusion, and science education.
• Experience in EdTech or similar industry is a plus, but not required.

If you’re excited about this role and our mission but don’t align perfectly with every qualification, we still want to hear from you. We value curiosity, growth, and a shared commitment to science education.

This is a hybrid role with partial weekly onsite presence at our Beaverton, Oregon location required.

At Vernier, we appreciate the impact of a sustainable life-work balance. In addition to an amazing company culture, Vernier offers competitive pay, profit sharing, employer contributions into your 401(k) retirement account, and comprehensive benefits. We have an on-site fitness center, private shower facilities, and an indoor bike storage room. Vernier is located next to the Millikan Way MAX line, and we provide employer-paid commuter benefits to all eligible employees.

We also offer training opportunities, tuition assistance, paid volunteer time, a PTO (paid time off) plan, along with paid sabbaticals.

Vernier Science Education is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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