Associate Director, SEO

New York, USA (On-site)

$120K/yr – $125K/yrManagerFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive SEO strategy and team leadership to deliver audits, reporting, and client-focused growth.

  • Own and lead SEO strategy across audits, training, and reporting.
  • Must-have: Substantial SEO experience with analytics tools.
  • Standout: Leadership of multi-person teams and cross-functional agency collaboration.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead the strategy for presentation of audits, training, and reporting.
  • Build out cutting edge SEO services such as search as business intelligence and reputation management.
  • Lead, develop, and manage Manager, Sr. Analyst, and Analysts.
  • Offer guidance, support, and direction as well as provide development opportunities and ongoing feedback.
  • Accountable for team development, including utilizing organizational tools such as learning and development, creating internal opportunity and challenges for staff, and maintaining positive morale.
  • Identify opportunities to improve efficiencies and templatize/automate tactical work.
  • Clearly define elements of SEO projects to set expectations of what is and is not in scope.
  • Aid the director and VP in scoping both future projects and staffing.
  • Work seamlessly with cross-functional teams including paid search, paid social, content production, and web development from multiple agencies within the IPG family.
  • Verbally, literally, and visually provide strategic and tactical guidance on SEO best practices.

Requirements

  • Substantial experience in digital marketing with an emphasis on SEO.
  • Substantial experience with tools relating to web analytics, SEO reporting, link, and technical analysis.
  • Experience collaborating or working in Paid Search and Social.
  • Strong grasp of Microsoft Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the know-how to translate detailed knowledge into key takeaways for all positions from analysts to C-level executives.
  • Demonstrated track record of moving client partnerships forward to generate results and new business opportunities.
  • Comprehension of site development from conception and wireframes to build and development.
  • Solid understanding of HTML and dedication to white hat techniques.
  • Highly analytical with the ability to internalize the importance of performance KPIs such as ROI.
  • Familiarity with how both front end design and back-end servers can affect SEO performance.

Preferred

  • Solid understanding of HTML and dedication to white hat techniques.
  • Reliability to develop agendas, set up conference calls, and present either in-person or by phone.
  • Familiarity with how both front end design and back-end servers can affect SEO performance.

Benefits

  • We offer a Total Rewards package that includes medical and dental coverage, 401(k) plans, flex spending, life insurance, disability, employee discount program, employee stock purchase program and paid family benefits to support you and your family.
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KINESSO is the technology-driven performance marketing agency that sits at the very heart of IPG Mediabrands, providing actionable growth for both our agency partners and clients. We turn ‘action’ into ‘outcome’ for our clients, leveraging our unique optimization, analytics, AI, and experimentation capabilities. KINESSO has brought together the collective power of what was formerly Matterkind, Reprise, and Kinesso under one collective entity that will serve as the most powerful delivery engine in the industry. We have extensive offerings spanning across performance marketing and data and technology. Fueled by a deep understanding of consumer behavior, we offer an end-to-end engine of planning and optimization while also delivering on data-driven strategy for social platforms, actionable growth in e-commerce, and creating curated marketplaces specific to each client's function and needs. The company has more than 6,000 employees operating in more than 60 countries. Learn more at KINESSO.com.

Founded in 2009
New York, New York, USA
3.4K employees (872 in marketing)
71% recommend to a friend
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Paid
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Current headcount: ~3.4K

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791 (23% of company)
Median Career Experience
11 years
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