Freelance Associate Director, Performance Content (GEO / SEO)

Chicago, IL (Remote)

$46/hr – $67/hrSenior LevelTemporary

Posted 11 days ago

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Job Summary

Own the end-to-end assessment of AI visibility and local search performance, translating findings into actionable SEO and local optimization plans across multi-location brands.

  • Lead cross-team coordination to activate AI/SEO improvements across priority markets
  • Define test-and-learn plans tied to measurable AI/search visibility outcomes

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Assess AI visibility, search visibility, citations, sentiment, and source inclusion across priority brands, categories, products, services, and local markets.
  • Translate GEO findings into practical SEO, content, technical, structured data, authority, entity, and local search recommendations.
  • Support prompt and query strategy for priority consumer journeys, including category questions, brand comparisons, product discovery, service discovery, and “near me” / local-intent searches.
  • Partner with S&I, Commerce, PR, Social, Owned, and local market teams to coordinate AEO/GEO activation across the full search and discovery ecosystem.
  • Identify priority content gaps, source gaps, entity gaps, technical gaps, authority gaps, and local visibility gaps.
  • For MVH and other location-sensitive businesses, assess Google Business Profiles, maps visibility, local landing pages, directory presence, review signals, NAP consistency, service-area relevance, and local schema.
  • Recommend improvements to owned content, location pages, service pages, structured data, FAQ content, reviews, internal linking, local authority signals, and source credibility.
  • Help define test-and-learn plans that connect activation to measurable AI/search visibility improvement.
  • Ensure recommendations are actionable and tied to what internal teams can realistically control.

Requirements

  • Strong SEO background, ideally with exposure to GEO, AEO, AI visibility, LLM citation analysis, or answer engine optimization.
  • Deep understanding of technical SEO, content strategy, entity optimization, structured data, authority signals, search intent, and local SEO.
  • Strong local search experience, including Google Business Profiles, maps visibility, location pages, local directories, reviews, NAP consistency, service-area content, and local schema.
  • Familiarity with tools such as Semrush, Profound, Brandlight, Similarweb, Screaming Frog, GSC, GA4, BrightLocal, Yext, Whitespark, Moz Local, or comparable platforms.
  • Ability to translate complex AI/search visibility issues into clear, practical actions for non-specialist stakeholders.
  • Experience with enterprise brands, multi-location businesses, service businesses, healthcare, veterinary, retail, or multi-market programs preferred.

Benefits

  • Paid Family Care for parents and caregivers for 12 weeks or more
  • Monetary assistance and support for Adoption, Surrogacy and Fertility
  • Monetary assistance and support for pet adoption
  • Employee Assistance Programs and Health/Wellness/Comfort reimbursements to help you invest in your future and work/life balance
  • Tuition Assistance
  • Paid time off that includes Flexible Time off Vacation, Annual Sick Days, Volunteer Days, Holiday and Identity days, and more
  • Matching Gifts programs
  • Flexible working arrangements
  • 'Work Your World’ Program encouraging employees to work from anywhere Publicis Groupe has an office for up to 6 weeks a year (based upon eligibility)
  • Business Resource Groups that support multiple affinities and alliances
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Starcom

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With a history that dates back over 80 years, Starcom is a global communications planning and media leader. We are an agency still grounded in our founding principle that people are at the center of all we do. Each day, we apply this belief to harness the transformative power of data and technology to inspire and move people and business forward. With almost 7,000 employees in over 100 offices around the world, Starcom partners with the world's leading marketers and brands, including Bank of America, Best Buy, Kellanova, McDonald's, Novartis, Samsung, Visa, WK Kellogg Company and more.

Founded in 1936
Chicago, Illinois, USA
6.1K employees (2,084 in marketing)
66% recommend to a friend
59% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
20.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
43.1%
Direct
41.6%
Referral
9.1%
Social
4.6%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~6.1K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
1,983 (33% of company)
Median Career Experience
10 years
Median Tenure
4.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
28

Funding

Total Funding
$57.1M
Last Raise
$43.2M
Series A, 1 months ago

Funding History

  • Feb 2026
    Series A • $43.2M
  • Aug 2025
    Series A
  • May 2025
    Series A • $13.9M

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