Freelance Director, Performance Content - GEO / SEO
New York City, NY (Remote)
Posted 1 day ago
Job Summary
Own and translate AI visibility and local search insights into actionable SEO, content, and technical strategies across priority brands and local markets, coordinating with cross-functional teams to close content, source, and authority gaps.
- Lead GEO/AEO activation planning and tracking across priority markets
- Drive improvements to owned content and local pages with measurable impact
- Collaborate with S&I, Commerce, PR, Social, and local teams to align discovery strategies
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
- Familiarity with enterprise brands, multi-location programs, or healthcare/veterinary/retail sectors (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
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.
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$58/hr – $83/hr
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- Feb 2026Series A • $43.2M
- Aug 2025Series A
- May 2025Series A • $13.9M
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