Senior Deliverability and Compliance Specialist

Kit is the email marketing platform experts choose to grow their audience, deepen their relationships, and build a business around the work they love. For coaches, YouTubers, authors, podcasters, and other creatives, there isn't a better marketing hub to rely on to grow audiences, automate email marketing, and sell digital products — all within one platform.

More importantly, there isn't a team more committed to helping creators earn a living. We're on a mission to help creators earn $1 billion using our creator marketing platform. We have always been 100% independent and 100% remote.

We are proud to have built a product that our customers love, and we look for people who have enthusiasm and belief in our mission, vision, and values to join our team. We're also embracing AI thoughtfully — both in how we build and how we hire to ensure our team is adaptable, innovative, and ready for what's next.

Most Kit creators don't have a dedicated Creator Growth Manager, and when their emails start landing in spam, they need someone who can find the cause quickly and explain it in plain language. We're looking for a Deliverability and Compliance Specialist to own deliverability support for that long tail of creators, run Kit's abuse desk, and make the compliance calls that protect the sending reputation every creator on Kit shares.

You'll also build the playbooks, training, and AI-assisted workflows that help Support and contractors handle more deliverability questions on their own, and you'll partner with our infrastructure engineers as we run more of our sending in-house. A creator can't build a lasting business if their emails don't arrive, so this work connects directly to our mission.

This is a full-time individual contributor role for someone who likes digging through headers and bounce logs to find the real cause of a problem, can explain DMARC alignment to a first-time creator without jargon, and is comfortable making a firm call when a situation is gray. You don't wait for someone to tell you what needs fixing. You proactively spot opportunities, identify patterns, and take the initiative to improve deliverability before problems arise.

You'll report to Alyssa Dulin, Director of Creator Success, and collaborate closely with:

• Our Deliverability team: a Deliverability Lead who supports our highest-value accounts and leads deliverability education, and a Deliverability Specialist who onboards and ramps up large senders moving to Kit

• Our infrastructure engineers, who run Kit's sending infrastructure

• Our compliance and anti-abuse engineers, who build the automated checks that keep spammers off Kit

• Product Specialists and the Support team, who handle the front line and escalate deliverability issues to you

• Customer Success Managers (we call them Creator Growth Managers at Kit), Sales and Migrations, and Product Managers

• First Week: Get set up in Kit, our admin tools, and our support and ticketing systems, and meet our distributed team in Get To Know You chats (GTKYs). Meet the deliverability team and get an introduction on the current projects. Read our deliverability playbooks and SOPs, and get access to the monitoring tools you'll use every day: Google Postmaster Tools, Microsoft SNDS, blocklist monitoring, and our internal delivery dashboards.

• First Month: Shadow the Deliverability team and Product Specialists on deliverability tickets, account approvals, and abuse reports, then start answering queue tickets with review. Join the daily monitoring rotation (blocklist delisting, Postmaster and delivery monitoring) and the weekly Deliverability team meeting. Learn how account approvals, compliance flags, and our in-house sending platform work. By the end of the month, work deliverability tickets and abuse reports on your own and send your first delisting requests. Project: build a recurring report showing the trending deliverability ticket reasons so we understand what’s causing how to reduce friction for customers and how to solve it

• First Six Months: Own the deliverability support queue for creators without a dedicated CGM: spam-folder placement, bounces, authentication and DMARC setup, and escalations from Product Specialists. Own compliance end to end, from new-account approvals and compliance flags to pausing or closing accounts that put our shared reputation at risk.Run Kit's abuse desk. You'll write and share a strategy that covers coverage, response-time targets, escalation paths, and quality checks, then put it in place so routine spam, phishing, and blocklist reports follow clear SOPs while you take the hardest cases yourself. Be the go-to contact for day-to-day mailbox provider issues with Microsoft, Gmail, Yahoo, Comcast, and regional providers, and write an incident runbook for blocklistings and provider throttling. Track the queue with a simple scorecard (volume, first response time, and escalation rate) and share what you learn with the team. Run training sessions for Support and ship your first process or AI improvements, like cleaner ticket categorization or better account data for our AI support agent, so more deliverability tickets get solved without escalation..

• First Year: Deliverability support is faster and more consistent for every creator on Kit, including the ones who never talk to a CGM. Your playbooks, help center articles, and AI-assisted workflows are what Support, CGMs, and contractors reach for first, and fewer tickets need to come to you. You've led at least one cross-team fix with infrastructure for a recurring problem you spotted in the queue, such as an alert when a creator's domain authentication breaks or a check for sudden signup spikes. You're helping shape the internal tooling and alerting our in-house sending needs, and you take part in industry groups like M3AAWG.

Skills

Must haves

• Deep working knowledge of email authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC, alignment, and BIMI basics), plus the ability to read raw message headers and SMTP bounce and deferral codes

• Hands-on use of Google Postmaster Tools and Microsoft SNDS/JMRP, and comfort working with major blocklists (Spamhaus, Abusix, Barracuda, Spamcop, and others) and their delisting processes

• A clear understanding of Gmail and Yahoo bulk sender requirements, including authentication, one-click unsubscribe (RFC 8058), and spam-rate thresholds

• Data fluency: you can pull bounce, complaint, and engagement data together, find the root cause, and explain it so others can act on it

• Hands-on abuse handling: you can work an abuse report or escalation start to finish, from finding the account and assessing the evidence to acting, replying to the reporter, and documenting the decision

• Process building: you can turn repeat work into SOPs, playbooks, and quality checks that a contractor or teammate can follow

• Clear, calm written communication with creators, teammates, and postmasters

• Using AI tools to research, summarize, and draft, and helping teammates do the same, with the judgment to keep a person on final compliance calls

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience with MTA logs or delivery observability tools (KumoMTA, PowerMTA, Postfix, Kibana/Elasticsearch, or SQL and BI tools like Mode)

• Familiarity with feedback loops