Director, SEO SEM

New York City, NY (On-site)

$121K/yr – $194K/yrDirector/Executive10+ years expFull time

Posted 6 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own and elevate an enterprise scale Search practice by shaping strategy, driving cross-channel collaboration, and building trusted advisor relationships with senior client stakeholders.

  • Set the vision and governance for the Search team while delivering actionable, scalable playbooks and staffing plans.
  • Cultivate executive relationships across brands and vendors to align priorities and co-create action plans.
  • Lead POVs and product updates while driving practice-wide improvements and career growth across the team.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Oversee enterprise-scale Search team, establishing overall strategic vision and driving tactical excellence, innovation and collaboration
  • Deeply understand client leadership stakeholders, priorities, and pain-points, proactively setting goals, sharing perspectives and approach-based solutions
  • Cultivate client leadership relationships both at the brand level and beyond, serving as a trusted advisor for ideation, escalation or action plan creation
  • Represent Search in broader client leadership conversations, actively contributing and/or leading communications
  • Create a culture of transparency, comradery, and accomplishment within their team, setting overarching objectives and celebrating accomplishments
  • Drive team process, financial accountability, training and best practice sharing
  • Establish and document client-level optimization, innovation and planning approaches, creating timelines, templates and scaled resources
  • Support career growth of those responsible for career growth of others, setting clear and consistent expectations by level across the team
  • Determine new ways to partner across Channels and integrate beyond Search
  • Represent capability in deliverable and fee scoping workstreams, advocating and rationalizing team's staffing needs and partnering across stakeholders to address

Requirements

  • Ability to multi-task and manage one’s time, demonstrating personal organization and meet deadlines while maintaining attention to detail
  • Ability to take and/or set initial direction, proactively provide proposed solutions and status updates
  • Ability to anticipate problems before they happen and creatively problem solve
  • Enterprise client management and account planning experience
  • Exhibits integrity, trust and investment in self-development
  • Adherence to agency procedures (timesheets, required trainings, 360 feedback, etc)
  • Proven ability to lead people and projects
  • Experience managing a team of 7+
  • Bachelor’s degree preferred, with 10+ years of direct Search campaign management

Benefits

  • medical coverage
  • dental
  • vision
  • disability
  • 401K
  • parential and family care leave
  • family forming assistance
  • tuition reimbursement
  • flexible time off
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Publicis Groupe Holdings B.V

Publicis Media harnesses the power of modern media through leading agency brands Dysrupt, Infinite Roar, Publicis Collective, Publicis Health Media, Spark Foundry, Starcom and Zenith, as well as global accelerator PMX; immersive experience group PMCI (inclusive of Picture Motion and RDL Worldwide); and access to integrated platform-based technologies and offerings from CJ, Epsilon and Influential. A key business solution of Publicis Groupe ([Euronext Paris FR0000130577, CAC 40]), Publicis Media’s digital-first, data-driven global solutions deliver client value and drive growth in a platform-powered world. It is present in over 100 countries with over 23,000 employees worldwide.

London, England, United Kingdom
11K employees (3,008 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
526.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
33.4%
Direct
38.4%
Referral
11.8%
Social
15.8%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~10.8K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2,719 (25% of company)
Median Career Experience
13.5 years
Median Tenure
4.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
215