Cold Email Operations Manager | Instantly + Apify + Make.com + HubSpot | 50K emails/month

Overview We run a high-volume B2B cold email program for a national background screening company. The infrastructure is built and live. We need an experienced operator to take full ownership — running the system, maintaining deliverability, managing lead pipelines, and continuously improving performance. This is not a setup job. This is an ongoing management role for someone who already knows these tools and can hit the ground running with minimal handholding. What You'll Own Lead Sourcing & Scraping — Build and manage Apify scraping workflows to pull targeted prospect lists from the right sources. You understand what makes a list clean versus garbage, and you enforce quality before anything touches an inbox. Email Infrastructure — Manage sending domains and inboxes in Scaledmail and Instantly. This means monitoring domain health, rotating inboxes appropriately, maintaining warmup, and keeping bounce rates low. You know what a burned domain looks like before it's actually burned. Automation & CRM Integration — Maintain and improve Make.com workflows that move verified leads from sourcing → enrichment → Instantly → HubSpot. Automations must be reliable and auditable. You're comfortable debugging broken scenarios and building new ones. Email Verification — Manage AnyMailFinder to verify contacts before they enter any sending sequence. You understand verification thresholds and make judgment calls on borderline lists. Campaign Management — Different sequences go to different audiences. You'll manage which contacts flow into which campaigns, monitor performance, and make copy or sequencing adjustments based on what the data shows. Reporting — Weekly summary of key metrics: open rates, reply rates, bounce rates, domain health, inbox placement, leads delivered to HubSpot. Flag issues before they become problems. This Role Is Right for You If: You've managed cold email programs at 30K–100K+ emails/month and know what breaks at scale You treat deliverability as non-negotiable — domain reputation is something you protect, not react to You're a systems thinker who builds processes that don't require babysitting You proactively flag when something looks off — you don't wait to be asked You can look at reply rate and bounce data and know what to adjust without being told You've personally managed Instantly, Apify, Make.com, Scaledmail, and AnyMailFinder — not just heard of them Hard Requirements Hands-on experience with Instantly (inbox management, campaign structure, sending limits, warmup) Hands-on experience with Apify (building or running scraping actors for lead generation) Hands-on experience with Make.com (multi-step automation scenarios, error handling, webhook flows) Experience with AnyMailFinder or comparable verification tools (not just "I've used email verification") HubSpot CRM experience — contacts, lifecycle stages, list management, basic workflow logic Demonstrated ability to keep bounce rates under 3% at volume English fluency — you'll be reading and interpreting campaign data and communicating findings clearly Nice to Have Experience with B2B lead generation for HR, workforce, or compliance-adjacent industries Copywriting or sequencing instincts — you can spot a weak subject line or a broken CTA Experience managing multiple client programs simultaneously (you know how to context-switch without dropping balls) To Apply Please include in your proposal: A brief description of the largest cold email program you've personally managed (volume, tools, outcomes) Your approach to maintaining deliverability at scale — specifically what you monitor and how often One example of an automation or workflow you built in Make.com for a lead gen or email program Your current availability (hours/week) and any other active commitments Proposals without these four items will not be reviewed. A note on fit: We're not looking for someone to check boxes. We want someone who treats this program like it's their own — who notices when something's underperforming and already has a fix in mind before we ask. If that's not how you work, this isn't the right role.