Marketing automation is getting out-of-hand
(full disclosure we, and most scaled Enterprise SaaS organizations, use these tools)<p>This is probably NOT marketing automation (Marketo, Eloqua, or HubSpot) you're coming up against, it's a new class of tools that run "playbooks" via moderately sophisticated mail merged email campaigns. It's an effort to automate and/or optimize what junior sales staff (often called Sales or Business Development Representatives) do.<p>Some of those tools include Outreach.io, Salesloft, and Toutapp. It could also be a home brewed app firing these emails.<p>These are designed to seem like a person wrote those emails to you, but really they are running on a schedule and logic, listening for pixel loads, link clicks, and/or your response. If you don't respond, they can respond to themselves after X business days/hours, etc. They are being optimized for conversion, and some even have A/B testing built in.<p>Coupled with outsourced labor or scrapers focused on picking up on signals and populating a specific field to be mail merged (in OP's case, a title from a job posting), some of these things literally run themselves. Generally, you get a human when you respond back -- as the algorithms aren't smart enough [yet] to respond back appropriately.<p>Hope this clears it up. I hate being on the other side of these things too. If you get one and want it to stop, either click the CAN-SPAM opt out or briskly respond accordingly.