Marketing Quality Assurance & Release Specialist

British American Tobacco•Winston-Salem, NC

13d•Onsite

About The Position

Reynolds American is evolving into a global multi-category business. Our purpose is to create A Better Tomorrow™ by Building a Smokeless World. To achieve our ambition, we are looking for colleagues who are ready to join us on this journey. Tomorrow can’t wait, let’s shape it together! REYNOLDS AMERICAN has an exciting opportunity for a Marketing Quality Assurance & Release Specialist in Winston-Salem, NC As a Marketing Quality Assurance & Release Specialist, you will support the Campaign Operations and Consumer Experience ecosystem by ensuring that consumer-facing campaigns, offers, digital assets, customer journeys, and experiences function correctly across web, mobile, email, and other channels prior to launch. You will also ensure they are executed accurately and in compliance with quality, regulatory, privacy, legal, and brand standards within a highly regulated CPG environment. As a key member of the Campaign Operations and Consumer Experience team, you will partner closely with marketers, product managers, designers, analytics teams, developers, Compliance, Legal, Brand, Trade Marketing, and external partners to translate campaign requirements into technical execution. You will define QA standards, manage release readiness, support defect triage, validate execution quality, and ensure issues are properly documented, escalated, resolved, and prevented from recurring. This is a highly operational, detail-oriented, and governance-driven role for a disciplined professional who can bring structure to complex release environments, strengthen quality controls, reduce deployment risk, and help teams deliver compliant, accurate, and consumer-ready experiences with confidence.

Requirements

2 to 5 years of experience in Quality Assurance, Release Management, Campaign Operations, Digital Production, CRM, or Consumer Engagement environments.
Strong understanding of quality controls, governance frameworks, testing methodologies, risk assessment, and execution validation within regulated environments.
Proven ability to identify, assess, and mitigate execution risks, compliance issues, defects, and consumer experience gaps before launch.
Experience coordinating cross-functional stakeholders, including Marketing, Compliance, Legal, Brand, Analytics, Technology, Agencies, and Campaign Operations teams.
Strong problem-solving and root cause analysis skills, with experience managing defect triage, issue escalation, and corrective action planning.
Ability to evaluate release readiness and make informed go/no-go recommendations based on testing results, operational risks, approvals, and business impact.
Strong organizational, documentation, and stakeholder management skills, including experience maintaining audit-ready records, release documentation, and governance controls.
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Quality Management, Information Systems, Digital Marketing, Analytics, or a related field.

Responsibilities

Establish, maintain, and enforce QA standards, controls, testing protocols, readiness criteria, checklists, and governance frameworks for consumer-facing campaigns, digital experiences, and release activities within a highly regulated environment.
Lead release readiness activities by coordinating approvals, testing results, documentation, risk assessments, dependencies, and go/no-go decisions to ensure successful and compliant deployments.
Conduct comprehensive pre-launch validation of campaigns, offers, customer journeys, and digital experiences across web, mobile, email, and other channels, ensuring accuracy, functionality, personalization, and adherence to business requirements.
Oversee defect intake, prioritization, investigation, escalation, resolution tracking, and root cause analysis to minimize production issues and prevent recurrence.
Partner with Compliance, Legal, Brand, Privacy, and business stakeholders to ensure campaigns and releases meet applicable policies, regulatory requirements, consent standards, data governance controls, and brand guidelines.
Collaborate with Marketing, Product, Analytics, Technology, Creative, Operations, and external partners to translate business requirements into executable QA and release plans while ensuring alignment across teams.
Maintain release documentation, QA results, approvals, issue logs, corrective actions, and governance records to support operational excellence, audit readiness, and organizational compliance.
Analyze quality outcomes, campaign performance, recurring issues, process gaps, and operational risks to implement improvements that enhance release quality, reduce rework, strengthen controls, and improve the overall consumer experience.

Benefits

401(k) plan that offers opportunity to save on pre- and post-tax basis up to 50 percent of eligible compensation.
Company matches 100 percent of employee pre-tax/Roth (401k) contributions up to six percent
Company contributes an additional three percent to 401(k) whether employee participates or not
Comprehensive health- and welfare-benefits package (including medical, dental, vision, and prescription drugs)
Health Savings Account start-up contribution for employees who elect the high deductible health plan
Flexible spending accounts for both Health Care and Dependent Care allowing employee to use pre-tax dollars to pay for qualified expenses during the calendar year
Employee assistance program offering 8 free counselling sessions, per issue, each calendar year for employees and their dependents
Company paid life insurance of 1x annual base pay ($50,000 minimum)
Company paid accidental death or dismemberment insurance of 2x annual base pay ($50,000 minimum)
Voluntary insurances offered at group rates: employee and dependent life insurance, AD&D insurance, critical illness, accident coverage, disability buy-up, and auto & home insurance
Tuition reimbursement and student loan support
Dependent Scholarship Programs
Free confidential personal financial counselling service
On-site health centers and 24/7 fitness centers at certain company locations
A charitable giving matching grants program that enables employees to direct and double their donations to qualifying charitable organizations of their choice
Health-care concierge service
Volunteer service opportunities
Extensive training opportunities
Company vehicle for eligible employees
Mobile phone allowance for eligible employees
Paid Leave: Sick and Personal Time (exempt employees may be excused with pay for brief absences; non-exempt employees receive up to 6 days)
Vacation (levels Below Senior Director receive 15 days (pro-rated during first year of service); Senior Director and Officers receive 25 days (pro-rated during first year of service)).
Holidays (Nine company recognized and two annual personal holidays to be used at the employee’s discretion)
Paid Parental Leave + temporary reduced work schedule opportunity
Funeral Leave
Short-Term Disability Leave
Long-Term Disability Leave
Jury Duty Leave
Military Leave
Released Time for Children’s Education
Community Outreach Leave
Other paid leave benefits, as required by state or local law