Associate Director, SEO & AI Visibility

Knoxville, TN (Unknown)

Salary Not AvailableDirector/Executive8+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive enterprise SEO and AI visibility strategy across brands and locations, owning technical, content, local, and AI-enabled workflows.

  • Own the end-to-end SEO and AI-driven discovery programs for national and multi-location brands.
  • Must-have: 8+ years in SEO with enterprise-scale leadership and strong technical/ local SEO expertise.
  • Standout: Direct experience building GEO/AEO strategies and AI workflow design to boost visibility in AI-generated results.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead SEO and AI visibility strategy for national, enterprise, and multi-location brands across technical SEO, content SEO, local SEO, and emerging answer-engine optimization programs.
  • Architect modern organic discovery strategies that improve brand visibility across Google Search, AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, YouTube, Reddit, maps, reviews, and other platforms influencing consumer decision-making.
  • Translate shifting search behavior into actionable client strategies, helping brands adapt to zero-click search, cited-answer environments, and AI-mediated discovery.
  • Build and refine GEO/AEO frameworks focused on semantic clarity, entity optimization, structured content, source credibility, schema, internal linking, and answer-first content architecture.
  • Develop AI-enabled content workflows that improve the speed, consistency, and quality of SEO deliverables, including content briefs, optimization recommendations, page refreshes, FAQ generation, internal linking recommendations, and other scalable workstreams.
  • Ensure AI-assisted workflows are grounded in brand truth, first-party inputs, subject matter expertise, and sound editorial judgment rather than generic, low-value content generation.
  • Partner with Content, Creative, UX, Development, PR, Social, Analytics, and Paid Search teams to improve the broader signals that influence both search rankings and AI citation visibility.
  • Lead technical SEO strategy across crawling, indexation, renderability, schema, canonicals, hreflang, XML sitemaps, redirects, site migrations, internal linking, international architecture, and other core areas of enterprise SEO.
  • Oversee local SEO and reputation programs for multi-location brands, including Google Business Profile optimization, listings consistency, duplicate suppression, ratings and reviews, local landing pages, and hyperlocal visibility.
  • Monitor and analyze brand presence across traditional search and AI-driven experiences, including citations, mentions, answer inclusion, share of voice, and evolving visibility signals by LLM or platform.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in SEO, with meaningful experience leading enterprise SEO initiatives for large or complex brands.
  • Strong hands-on expertise in technical SEO, content strategy, local SEO, and organic search performance.
  • A clear and practical point of view on how AI Overviews, LLMs, answer engines, and generative discovery are changing search.
  • Experience developing or applying GEO/AEO strategies designed to improve visibility in AI-generated results and answer-first environments.
  • Experience using AI tools and workflow design to improve SEO productivity, content development, analysis, or execution.
  • Strong understanding of structured data, semantic search, entity optimization, content architecture, and the signals that influence both search engines and AI retrieval systems.
  • Ability to think beyond traditional SEO KPIs and help clients adopt smarter measurement frameworks tied to citations, mentions, visibility, discoverability, and business outcomes.
  • Strong command of enterprise SEO platforms, site crawling tools, analytics tools, and local/listings platforms.
  • Excellent client communication skills, including the ability to present complex ideas in a clear, concise, and persuasive way.
  • Strong organizational and team leadership skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams and mentor junior team members.
  • A player-coach mindset with the willingness to stay close to the work, solve hard problems, and push the discipline forward.

Preferred

  • Experience with BrightEdge, Conductor, Ahrefs, SEMrush, Screaming Frog, Lumar/Deepcrawl, Google Search Console, GA4, and major local listings/reputation platforms.
  • Experience with multi-location brands, enterprise sites, and international or complex website architectures.
  • Familiarity with prompt design, retrieval-aware content structuring, entity SEO, schema strategy, and emerging AI visibility tooling.
  • Experience building scalable SEO or content workflows that combine human strategy with AI assistance.
  • Experience collaborating closely with paid media, analytics, PR, creative, and content teams in an integrated agency environment.
  • Familiarity with CMS platforms such as AEM, WordPress, Drupal, Sitecore, or similar enterprise content systems.
  • Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and how modern front-end frameworks affect search accessibility and indexation.
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Tombras

Tombras is a 450+ person, full-service agency with a digital mindset. We are one of the top independent agencies in North America. We are united by our philosophy: Connecting Data & Creativity for Business Results.®2023 AdAge A-List Standout 2022 ADWEEK US Agency of the Year (Finalist)2021 Fast Company World Changing IdeasClients include Orangetheory Fitness, MoonPie, BUSH's Beans, Rolls-Royce, Pernod Ricard, Frito-Lay, Zaxby's

Founded in 1946
Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
475 employees (220 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
8.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
31.9%
Direct
52.5%
Referral
6.3%
Social
8%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~475

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
154 (32% of company)
Median Career Experience
9.5 years
Median Tenure
4.9 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

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