You've run outbound for someone else. You know the job better than the person you report to. This is the seat where you own the whole machine: the lists, the copy, the infrastructure, the client relationships. You run it like it's yours. Because in 12 months, a piece of it is.
Every good cold email operator hits the same wall. You get properly good at the craft. You can take a cold list and turn it into a calendar full of meetings. And then you look up and realise you're doing the most valuable work in the building while someone else owns the client, the margin, and the decisions.
So you have two options. Stay, and stay a technician. Or quit and start your own agency, and spend the next eighteen months learning to sell instead of learning to deliver, burn your savings, and find out that the hard part was never the campaigns.
This is the third option.
VelocityFlow is a done-for-you cold email agency. We've sent a million emails for clients in M&A advisory, insurance-agency M&A, healthcare M&A, auto parts manufacturing, and recruiting. The offers are built, the infrastructure is running, the clients are signed and paying, and the pipeline is already scripted in Python and n8n.
What we don't have is a second person. Right now I do all of it. Every list, every sequence, every reply, every client call. That ceiling is the only thing between this agency and 3x the size it is today.
So I'm not hiring a campaign manager to take tickets. I'm hiring the person who takes delivery off my desk entirely, and then builds the team that runs it. You get the client ownership and the P&L exposure of running an agency, on top of a book that already exists, with someone else doing the selling.
I'd rather have ten applications from the right person than two hundred from people hoping to learn on our clients. So let me be direct about both sides.
Five workflows. You own all of them, for every account.
Source companies and contacts, filter to the client's real ICP, enrich and verify the emails, strip Mimecast/Barracuda/Proofpoint gateway domains, suppress against everyone we've already touched. You're the last line of defense on data quality. If a bad list ships, that's yours.
Write and iterate the copy, build the sequences, map merge fields to the data that actually exists in the list, set per-mailbox sending limits, launch, monitor. You run the angle testing: several offers in phase one, reply data picks the winner, then you scale the winner.
Monitor inboxes across every account. Qualify the replies, handle the objections, book the meeting on the client's calendar, hand off cleanly. Route interested leads into the client's CRM and flag what needs the client's own answer.
Domains and DNS, mailbox provisioning, warmup schedules, sending limits, domain health. Rotating burned domains before they cost us deliverability rather than after.
A written performance report every week. A call every month. You present the numbers, explain what's working, and say what you're changing and why. When results dip, you're the one who raises it first, before the client notices.
Shadow every client call. Read every live campaign. Run one full pipeline end to end yourself: source, filter, verify, personalize, upload, send, with me watching. Take over reply handling for one account.
You're the primary contact for two clients. Their reports, their monthly calls, their campaign iterations. I'm on standby, not in the loop by default.
Every account is on your desk. My involvement drops to escalations only. You launch at least one new client from kickoff call to first booked meeting, solo.
The most common reason good people leave is that there was nowhere to go. So here's the actual path, in writing, before you apply.
You own delivery for the current book. Comp review at month six, tied directly to the five KPIs above. No subjective performance review, no politics.
You stop doing every task yourself and start building the system that does. You hire and manage your first contractor for the repetitive work: sourcing, verification, first-pass reply triage. Your scope shifts from operator to operator-plus-manager. Comp moves with the scope.
You own a team and a portfolio, and your compensation includes a share of the retained revenue you keep alive. You'll also be sitting on something rarer than a title: a documented track record of holding client accounts and hitting contractual meeting guarantees. That's either your case for owning a piece of this business, or the strongest resume in the industry. I'd rather it be the first one.
Fair question. You're being asked to bet a year of your career on a small company.
I break down the same playbooks we run for clients. Watch a couple before you apply. If the way I think about outbound makes sense to you, we'll probably work well together. If it doesn't, better we both find out now.
You own the outcome, not the task list. "The list was bad" isn't a reason a client missed their number. Catching the bad list was the job.
Ship the campaign, read the reply data, fix it. A week of planning loses to three days of sending.
If an account is underperforming we say it first, in writing, with the fix attached. Internally the same. Nothing hidden for a day.
Every hour goes to something that moves a client toward a meeting, or it doesn't get done.
Three real questions: a cold email you wrote that got replies, the account you're proudest of with the numbers, and the worst deliverability problem you've fixed.
Optional on the form, but it's the fastest way to show you can hold a client call. Almost everyone who gets hired sends one.
Either way. I read every application personally. No filter, no ATS. If it's a no you'll still get an email.
Not a culture interview. We'll go through a live account and I'll ask you what you'd change.
A real, scoped piece of work on a real account, roughly 4–6 hours, paid at your proposed rate. You see how we work, I see how you work. Nobody does free labour.
Whole process takes about two weeks from application to offer.
Yes, and it's the one thing I won't bend on. You'll be on live video calls with US business owners and handling replies inside their working day. A positive reply that sits for fourteen hours is a meeting we lost.
What's flexible is where you are. We hire anywhere on earth. Just be honest with yourself about the timezone maths before you apply. If it means starting at 10pm your time, that's a real cost and I'd rather you weigh it now than resign in month two.
Yes. Six months of genuinely running your own campaigns is enough, and of the two halves of this role, client-facing is the one I can coach while cold email isn't. If you can run campaigns properly and you're willing to be on the calls, apply and say plainly on the form that the client side is new to you.
What I can't work with is the reverse: a strong account manager who's never actually run a campaign. You'd be taking over live accounts in week three and there's no runway to learn the craft on a client's budget.
Neither am I. The bar is: you can open a terminal, run a Python script someone else wrote, read the error when it breaks, change a variable, and run it again. If you've built something in n8n, Make or Zapier and hit an API with it, you're already past the bar.
What actually matters is the instinct. When you're facing four hours of copy-paste, do you reach for a script or do you start pasting? We can teach the syntax.
I'd rather show you the whole thing than dress up the headline. The base sits alongside a $500 bonus every quarter that no account churns, which works out around $1,650–2,150/month, and that bonus is entirely within your control.
I'd also point at the six-month review and the twelve-month path, both of which are written on this page specifically so you can hold me to them. If you're outside the range and think you're worth it, put your real number on the form and tell me why. I'd rather have that conversation than lose the right person over $400.
Real, full-time, long-term, and it's the only hire I'm making this year. The paid test project is a two-week step at the start, not a rolling trial. Once you're in, you're in, and the first ninety days are mapped out on this page.
You'd be engaged as a full-time contractor rather than an employee, which is standard for an international hire at our size. Paid monthly, invoiced, no minimum-term lock-in on either side.
I've tried outsourcing pieces of it. The problem with fulfillment in this business is that the list, the copy, the infrastructure and the reply handling are one system. Split them across four freelancers and every failure becomes somebody else's fault, and the client is the one who pays for it.
This role exists because delivery needs one owner who sees the whole loop. That's also exactly why the job is worth taking.
Eight minutes. No cover letter. Just show me a cold email you wrote that worked, and the numbers behind it.
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