Associate Director, SEO Content – Media

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🏄 California, Illinois, +1 more states – Remote

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💵 $65 - $85 / hour

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🟠 Senior

📈 SEO Marketing

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DEPT®

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1001 - 5000 employees

📣 Marketing

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

📱 Media

Marketing • Artificial Intelligence • Media

DEPT® is a global digital agency that blends marketing, creative services and technology to help major brands grow. It offers AI transformation, brand & media, commerce, customer experience, and tech & data services, and emphasizes data-driven approaches and AI-native capabilities. DEPT® works with enterprise clients across industries, runs Growth Invention sprints, and is B Corp certified and climate neutral.

📋 Description

• Lead SEO and GEO content strategy across a portfolio of medium to large accounts • Connect client objectives, audience needs, competitive opportunities, and performance data to measurable priorities • Use keyword and prompt research, citation analysis, audience insights, and competitive findings to improve visibility and authority across traditional and generative search • Develop content strategies, roadmaps, briefs, outlines, and recommendations • Write, edit, and optimize content as needed, guiding work from ideation through final quality assurance • Apply AI tools across research, briefing, drafting, editing, and quality assurance while maintaining human oversight • Manage and mentor Content Strategists • Improve frameworks, workflows, templates, and editorial standards for scalable content production • Collaborate with technical SEO, analytics, design, development, digital PR, paid media, project management, and account teams • Identify account expansion opportunities and contribute to pitches, proposals, scopes, staffing plans, and capabilities presentations • Monitor changes in search, AI platforms, content discovery, and audience behavior and translate them into client and team recommendations

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience in content strategy, SEO, digital content, editorial strategy, or a related discipline • Experience leading complex content programs across multiple medium to large client accounts, preferably within an agency environment • Expertise developing content strategies connecting search demand, audience needs, brand positioning, and business objectives • Strong knowledge of SEO fundamentals, including search intent, keyword research, content architecture, internal linking, on-page optimization, and organic performance analysis • Working understanding of GEO, generative search platforms, AI citations, prompt tracking, answer visibility, and broader content strategy • Experience managing, mentoring, or developing content strategists, writers, and editors • Strong executive communication skills • Ability to assess account performance and identify strategic risks and opportunities • Strong editorial judgment regarding quality, usefulness, accuracy, search intent, brand alignment, and strategic value • Experience collaborating with SEO, analytics, account management, project management, design, development, and digital PR teams • Commercial awareness and experience identifying account growth opportunities, contributing to scopes, or supporting new-business development • Strong organizational and prioritization skills across multiple accounts and workstreams • Comfort working through ambiguity as platforms, tools, and measurement standards evolve • Curiosity, adaptability, and willingness to challenge established thinking • Must be authorized to work in the U.S.; DEPT® participates in E-Verify

🏖️ Benefits

• 30 hours weekly for this project • Inclusive and barrier-free recruitment and selection process • Reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process and employment • Equal opportunity employer • Purpose-driven work at a B Corp-certified company