Senior Deliverability & Outbound Systems Lead

InboxIQ™ is a brand new venture focused on solving a massive problem: B2B teams are losing pipeline because their emails land in spam. We are moving fast, starting with a sharp wedge: fix inboxing to policy, then scale replies and meetings safely.

This is not a job at an established company. It is a chance to be foundational tea ---------- mber #1 in operations, designing the system we scale.

***The Problem We’re Solving
Mid-market B2B teams are seeing their emails increasingly blocked. They need someone who understands the technical side of deliverability, not another ???email marketing expert” who only runs A/B tests. We will stabilize domains to provider policy, then turn that safety into booked meetings.

***What You’ll Actually Do
You will be our deliverability and outbound systems lead, handling the detailed work that keeps client emails out of spam and turns that into pipeline:

-Pull and interpret Gmail Postmaster health metrics and write simple risk calls (“OK, throttle, pause”)
-Run seed placement tests across Gmail/Outlook/Yahoo and explain what they actually mean
-Verify and fix SPF/DKIM/DMARC alignment, with rollback notes
-Check compliance with current requirements (like one-click unsubscribe for promotional streams)
-Design safe daily caps and warm-up ramps across domains and mailboxes
-Build the message system: 2-line AI-assisted research/personalization with human approval
-Document everything clearly so we can scale this later (SOPs a VA can run weekly)
-Train and mentor a junior Ops VA to run weekly checks after you set the plan

--Bonus if you know: Outreach/Salesloft, Google Workspace/O365 admin, DMARC monitoring, seed tools (GlockApps/InboxMonster), basic scripting, Postmaster API basics

***How We’ll Grow Together
Starting Point (Reality):

-18–24 hours total in Month 1 (hard cap), focused on fixes, ramps, and SOPs
-You will refine our process using our own domain as a test case

***As We Land Clients:

First audit sold ? 10–15 hrs that week for setup
Steady state per active brand ? 4–6 hrs/week (VA handles the routine, you handle edge cases)

***Schedule: Flexible. Philippines daytime with 2-hour overlap with US Pacific (for quick approvals/questions). PH-based preferred, open to exceptional global candidates.

***What Success Looks Like

Month 1: You run a complete deliverability audit and ship prioritized fixes with SOPs
Month 2: Stable seeds and complaint control on active brands, safe ramps in place, clean client updates
Month 3: You proactively spot risks, optimize ramps, and the Ops VA runs weekly checks under your SOPs

***What You Need to Have
Non-negotiables:

-You understand DNS records and email authentication (can explain SPF/DKIM/DMARC)
-You can verify one-click unsubscribe headers and know when they are required
-You read Gmail Postmaster and Microsoft SNDS and act on those signals
-You design safe send caps and warm-up ramps and know when to pause or roll back
-You write clean English, are obsessively organized, and follow checklists

***What We DON’T Need:

-Years of fluff experience (we care about outcomes and proof)
-Fancy degrees or certificates
-Open-rate magic. We care about complaint control, inboxing, replies, and meetings.

***Compensation (capital-smart, capped)

-Paid micro-trial: 2 hours, flat $30
-Month 1: $9–$12/hour, cap at 24 hours (audit, auth fixes, one-click verify where required, seeds, warm-up plan, SOPs)
-Month 2+: 4–6 hrs/week per active brand; VA handles routine checks so you focus on high-leverage work
-Payments via Wise or PayPal, on time

***How To Apply

-Reply with a 30-day recovery plan for a domain with poor Gmail reputation. Include daily and weekly actions, exact metrics, and what triggers a pause or rollback.
-Red-flag hunt this DMARC: v=DMARC1; p=quarantine; ---------- fo=1 — tell us what is missing or risky, and how you would phase from p=none to p=reject safely across multiple subdomains.
-List your tool stack for seed testing, DMARC monitoring, and header linting, and why you prefer them. Include how you separate warm vs cold streams and set safe daily caps.
-Share one anonymized before-and-after result proving improved inbox placement and complaint control. Blur what you need, we respect privacy.

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