SVP, SEO & AI Visibility

Knoxville, TN (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level12+ years expSalaried Ft

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive enterprise SEO strategy and AI-enabled discovery for multi-location brands, shaping Tombras' POV and scalable client work.

  • Must-have: 12+ years of SEO experience, including enterprise programs and senior teams.
  • Standout: Proven AI-enabled workflows that improve efficiency and grounded, high-quality outputs.
  • Standout: Ownership of multi-location SEO, listings, GMB optimization, and data consistency across brands.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Define and lead Tombras’ POV on SEO, AI visibility, AEO, GEO, and organic discovery.
  • Build commercially viable offerings that evolve the department beyond legacy SEO deliverables.
  • Translate industry change into scalable frameworks, workflows, training, and client recommendations.
  • Design and scale agentic AI workflows that improve SEO productivity, insight generation, and content quality.
  • Architect strategies for national, enterprise, and multi-location brands across technical SEO, content, local SEO, and authority-building initiatives.
  • Guide complex client work across site architecture, crawling and indexation, migrations, schema, internal linking, international SEO, local landing pages, reviews, and listings consistency.
  • Connect organic visibility to broader brand demand, media performance, and business outcomes.
  • Help clients understand how classic SEO metrics are changing and what new visibility signals matter most.
  • Develop frameworks that improve discoverability, citations, and brand presence across AI-driven search experiences.
  • Build grounded content systems that combine LLMs, retrieval, first-party data, expert inputs, and structured content rules to produce high-quality, brand-safe outputs.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of SEO experience, including leadership of enterprise SEO programs and senior teams in an agency or consulting environment.
  • Deep expertise in technical SEO, content strategy, local SEO, and organic growth for complex brands.
  • Strong command of enterprise SEO platforms, site crawling tools, Google Search Console, analytics tools, and listings/reputation platforms.
  • Clear point of view on how AI Overviews, LLMs, conversational interfaces, and generative search are changing SEO.
  • Experience building repeatable methodologies, client recommendations, and scalable team adoption around emerging industry change.
  • Strong fluency in multi-location and local SEO, including listings management, reputation, reviews, duplicate suppression, and local optimization at scale.
  • Experience building AI-enabled or agentic workflows that improve SEO efficiency and scale high-quality, grounded content outputs.
  • Strong communication and executive presence, with the ability to translate technical complexity into clear business language.
  • Proven success developing teams, mentoring talent, and driving department performance.
  • A player-coach mentality with the judgment to move between executive strategy, client leadership, and hands-on problem solving.

Preferred

  • Experience with BrightEdge, Conductor, Ahrefs, SEMrush, Screaming Frog, Deepcrawl/Lumar, and leading listings/reputation platforms.
  • Familiarity with schema strategy, entity SEO, knowledge graph concepts, and modern content architectures.
  • Experience partnering closely with paid search, analytics, PR, social, and content teams in an integrated environment.
  • Experience building or scaling new offerings tied to AI-enabled discovery, automation, or next-generation search.

Benefits

  • Family - It comes first, on every list. Tombras has been family-run since day 1, we strive to facilitate a family-oriented environment rooted in supporting one another.
  • Dog-friendly offices
  • Flexible PTO
  • Generous parental leave for primary and non-primary caregivers
  • Medical (PPO or High Deductible option) for employee + dependents
  • 401(k) Participation
  • Employer-paid Dental & Vision
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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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