Digital Content & SEO Specialist

San Diego, CA (On-site)

$74K/yr – $77K/yrMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 1 month ago

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Job Summary

Own the content lifecycle for a hotel portfolio with a focus on guest centric storytelling, direct bookings, and organic search visibility.

  • Content Ownership: Lead digital content across websites, blogs, landing pages, promos, and social channels.
  • SEO and AI: Build SEO visibility and conversational content for traditional and AI-driven search.
  • Collaboration and Calendars: Align with operations, sales, and campaigns, and coordinate cross-channel content calendars.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead the development and coordination of digital content across hotel websites, landing pages, blogs, promotional campaigns, and organic social channels
  • Create engaging, conversion-focused, and guest-centric content that supports both brand storytelling and direct booking initiatives
  • Develop content designed to showcase hotel experiences, local destinations, seasonal travel inspiration, and unique property differentiators
  • Assist with ongoing website merchandising, homepage updates, promotional placements, and content refreshes to ensure websites remain current, engaging, and competitive
  • Create content calendars that align website, blog, social media, and promotional campaign initiatives across the portfolio
  • Collaborate with hotel operations, sales, and commercial teams to identify storytelling opportunities, local partnerships, events, and guest experiences that can be leveraged digitally
  • Support the development of destination-focused content including travel guides, itineraries, neighborhood highlights, event-driven content, and experience-based storytelling
  • Help ensure consistency in brand voice, messaging, and visual storytelling across all digital channels
  • Coordinate and organize digital creative assets including photography, video, promotional graphics, and user-generated content
  • Assist with identifying opportunities to repurpose content across multiple channels including websites, blogs, email marketing, social media, FAQs, and Google Business Profiles
  • Own and help lead organic search visibility initiatives across the hotel portfolio in partnership with external SEO agency partners
  • Develop content strategies designed to improve discoverability across both traditional search engines and emerging AI-driven search experiences
  • Create and optimize conversational content designed for generative search platforms and evolving guest search behaviors
  • Develop FAQ content, travel guides, itinerary content, and experience-focused storytelling designed to improve topical authority and guest engagement
  • Support the development of content structures that align with conversational search patterns and long-tail guest intent
  • Monitor search trends, guest search behavior, and evolving AI-search opportunities to identify new content initiatives
  • Collaborate with agency partners on keyword strategy, on-page optimization opportunities, metadata recommendations, and organic search initiatives
  • Help maintain and optimize Google Business Profile content and other local search visibility opportunities
  • Assist with content optimization efforts including internal linking, metadata recommendations, content refreshes, and structured content development
  • Work to improve local authority, destination relevance, and overall digital discoverability for both branded and independent hotels