ABOUT CYNET
Cynet is a nationally certified, minority-owned staffing organization headquartered in Sterling, Virginia. We serve clients and candidates across healthcare, IT, locums, and workforce solutions through four specialized brands: Cynet Health, Cynet Systems, Cynet Locums, and Cynet Health Canada. We are rebuilding our Marketing Department and this is one of the most important roles in that rebuild.
THE OPPORTUNITY
We are looking for a Senior Digital Marketing Specialist to own two mission-critical workstreams: marketing automation and social media across all four Cynet divisions. This is a build role — not a maintenance role. There is no email marketing platform in place yet. No automation sequences. No playbook. You are the person who builds all of it.
If you are someone who has spent years being handed a system someone else built and told to run it — this is not that job. If you are someone who has always wanted to own the whole thing from the ground up — platform selection, architecture, content, execution, and reporting — this is exactly that.
SCOPE OF WORK
Your first and most foundational responsibility is selecting, implementing, and owning the marketing automation platform for the department. There is currently no email marketing tool in place. You will evaluate options, make a recommendation to the Director of Marketing, lead the setup and configuration, build the initial automation architecture, and own the platform on an ongoing basis. This includes CRM integration, list management, segmentation logic, workflow design, and reporting infrastructure. HubSpot is the preferred direction but the final recommendation is yours to make based on the company's needs and budget.
Owns all email marketing strategy and execution across all Cynet divisions. Builds and manages sequential automation flows from scratch:
Manages campaigns across both audience buckets — Bucket A (Cynet Health) and Bucket B (Cynet Systems, Cynet Locums, CHCA). Owns segmentation by specialty, geography, engagement history, and behavior. Writes all campaign copy. Manages A/B testing for subject lines, content, and CTAs. Delivers monthly performance reporting on open rates, CTR, response rates, and unsubscribes.
Builds and manages SMS campaign flows in coordination with the email strategy. Short, high-intent messages timed to candidate behavior and campaign triggers. Ensures full compliance with SMS marketing regulations including opt-in, opt-out, and frequency standards.
Writes and maintains the Recruitment Marketing Playbook — standardized email and SMS templates, campaign SOPs, and copywriting guidelines for all recruiting teams across every division. High-priority deliverable within the first 60 days.
Owns the social media presence across all Cynet divisions on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. Responsible for strategy, content calendar, copywriting, scheduling, publishing, community management, and performance reporting. LinkedIn is the primary channel. The bi-weekly LinkedIn newsletter is a core ongoing deliverable — content is repurposed to the website resource hub. Works with the creative team for visual assets and video production. All division social media banners refresh is a first-week priority.
Delivers a unified monthly performance dashboard covering email, SMS, and social media metrics. Works within the department's UTM tagging standard. Contributes to quarterly marketing performance reports presented to leadership.
Requirements
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
These are not requirements. They are indicators that a candidate may be able to contribute from day one with less ramp-up time.
FULL JOB DESCRIPTION
Your first and most important deliverable is choosing and implementing the marketing automation platform for the department. You will evaluate options, make a recommendation, lead the technical setup, and build the initial automation architecture. Once the platform is live you own it completely.
From there you will build sequential email and SMS flows across all four Cynet divisions — re-engagement campaigns targeting a candidate database of over one million people, onboarding sequences, milestone touchpoints, and referral flows. You will write the Recruitment Marketing Playbook that standardizes outreach across every recruiting team in the company. And you will manage social media presence across all division brands — with LinkedIn as the primary channel and a bi-weekly newsletter as one of your core ongoing deliverables.
This is not a role where someone will hand you a content calendar and ask you to schedule posts. It is not a role where the automation is already running and your job is to monitor it. The platform does not exist yet. The sequences have not been built. The playbook has not been written. If you are looking for a role where the infrastructure is already in place — this is not it. If you are energized by building something from the ground up — this is exactly it.
You have built marketing automation before — not just used it. You understand how to structure a sequence, segment an audience, write copy that moves people forward, and read the data that tells you whether it is working. You are as comfortable in a platform's workflow builder as you are writing a LinkedIn post or reviewing a performance dashboard.
You manage multiple things simultaneously without losing quality on any of them. You write well. You are organized. And you are genuinely excited about building something from scratch rather than inheriting someone else's system.
A senior role with real ownership. A marketing department being built with intention and a clear strategy. A Director who will invest in your growth and give you space to do your best work. A creative team — designers, a video specialist, a web and UX lead — who will support everything you build. And one of the largest untapped candidate databases in the healthcare staffing industry, waiting for someone to finally activate it properly.
This role is remote with collaboration expected during Eastern time zone business hours.