Associate Director of SEO & Generative Engine Optimization

New York, USA (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive enterprise SEO and GEO leadership to optimize AI-enabled search and cross-functional roadmaps.

  • Own the enterprise SEO + GEO roadmap and align with product goals.
  • 10+ years of enterprise SEO experience with scale growth.
  • Mentor and evangelize SEO best practices across the organization.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve the enterprise SEO + GEO roadmap, ensuring alignment with business goals, product strategy, and the changing AI-driven search ecosystem.
  • Develop strategies for ranking in both traditional search and generative search interfaces , including AI answer engines.
  • Drive entity-based SEO, structured data expansion, and E-E-A-T optimization to strengthen brand authority in generative engines.
  • Identify and pilot AI-driven SEO workflows (content augmentation, clustering, topical mapping, prompt engineering, automation, QA).
  • Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to influence roadmap priorities, advocate for SEO needs, and support major site redesigns or migrations.
  • Work closely with Legal/Compliance on content and claims approvals, ensuring compliance does not hinder organic growth.
  • Lead cross-functional working groups and evangelize SEO + GEO best practices across the organization.
  • Oversee technical SEO audits and prioritization of fixes, working with engineering teams to ensure timely delivery.
  • Guide structured data, schema strategies, indexation optimization, internal linking enhancements, and page-speed improvements.
  • Maintain oversight of local SEO operations, including listings accuracy and local authority-building strategies (executed through team members or vendors).

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in enterprise SEO, with proven success driving organic growth at scale.
  • Deep expertise in technical SEO, content strategy, local SEO, and entity-based optimization.
  • Strong understanding of Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) and emerging AI-driven search experiences.
  • Experience influencing product and engineering teams at the roadmap level.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage vendors, marketing budgets, and complex program operations.
  • Exceptional communication skills, including executive-level storytelling and data visualization.
  • Hands-on experience with tools including Google Search Console, Conductor, GA4, Contentful, Workfront or Jira, and SEO intelligence platforms.

Preferred

  • Experience in highly regulated industries or financial services.
  • Familiarity with AI-driven content workflows, LLM-based research, or prompt engineering.
  • Background in PR/earned media SEO collaboration or off-page authority-building.
  • Experience with website migrations, large-scale redesigns, or multi-site architectures

Benefits

  • Health and wellbeing options including medical, prescription, dental, vision, hearing, accident, hospital indemnity, and life insurances
  • Up to 4% matching 401(k)
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (10% share discount)
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Paid time off (15 days’ vacation per year, plus 2 personal days, prorated based on start date)
  • Paid sick leave as determined by state or local ordinance, prorated based on start date
  • Paid holidays (7 days per year, based on start date)
  • Paid volunteer time (3 days per year, prorated based on start date)
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OneMain Financial

OneMain Financial (NYSE: OMF) is the leader in offering nonprime customers responsible access to credit and is dedicated to improving the financial well-being of hardworking Americans. We look beyond credit scores to help people get the money they need today and reach their goals for tomorrow. Our growing suite of personal loans and auto loans, credit cards and financial wellness products like Trim and Credit Worthy by OneMain Financial® help people borrow better and work toward a brighter future. In our 1,300+ branches and across the U.S., join almost 9,000 team members helping millions of customers solve critical financial needs, including debt consolidation, home and auto repairs, medical procedures, extending household budgets or something else people might need. Together, we meet customers where they want to be — in person, by phone and online. Find your place in our Most Loved Workplace with a recognized focus on supporting Volunteerism, Diversity and Veterans. Every day, be part of our mission-driven culture committed to inclusion and respect, career growth and impacting the communities where we live and work. There’s never been a better time to shine with OneMain. Loans offered by OneMain Financial Group, LLC (NMLS# 1339418 – nmlsconsumeraccess.org; onemainfinancial.com/legal/disclosures.

Founded in 1912
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
6.9K employees (89 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
3.8M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$408.5K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
21.2%
Direct
67.8%
Referral
9.1%
Social
0.3%
Paid
1.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~7K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
66 (1% of company)
Median Career Experience
18 years
Median Tenure
6.3 years

Funding

Total Funding
$2.9B
Last Raise
$600M
Post IPO Debt, 1 years ago

Funding History

  • Mar 2025
    Post IPO Debt • $600M
  • Nov 2024
    Post IPO Debt • $900M
  • Jan 2018
    Post IPO Secondary • $1.4B

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