Freelance Associate Director, Performance Content (GEO / SEO)

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior LevelTemporary

Posted 3 weeks ago

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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.

Preferred

  • 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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