Organic Media Manager

District of Columbia, USA (Hybrid)

$76K/yr - $99K/yr (Est.)Mid Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 20 hrs ago

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Job Summary

Own and drive integrated search strategies across organic SEO and paid search to align keyword, content, and bidding with business goals, uncover SEO opportunities, and translate data into actionable optimizations while collaborating across teams and staying ahead of algorithm changes.

  • Integrated search plans across organic SEO and paid search
  • Cross-functional collaboration to execute campaigns and translate data into action

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develops integrated search plans across organic SEO and paid search (SEM), aligning keyword, content, and bidding strategies to business goals.
  • Identifies and prioritizes SEO opportunities, including keyword optimization, page structure improvements, internal linking, and metadata refinement.
  • Tracks performance metrics against KPIs and provides actionable insights. Translates search results into recommendations and related action plans.
  • Collaborates closely with stakeholders and peers across the enterprise to support marketing efforts and coordinated execution.
  • Stays current on search engine algorithm changes, platform updates, and industry trends, proactively adjusting strategies to mitigate risk and capture opportunity.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Digital Media, Business, or a related field.
  • Minimum 5 years of experience in organic marketing, SEO, content marketing, social media management, or digital marketing.
  • Proven expertise in Search Engine Optimization (SEO), including keyword research, on-page optimization, technical SEO fundamentals, metadata management, internal linking, and content optimization.
  • Experience developing and executing integrated search strategies across organic SEO and paid search (SEM), aligning initiatives with business and marketing objectives.
  • Strong analytical skills with experience using web analytics and SEO tools such as Google Analytics, Google Search Console, SEMrush, Ahrefs, Moz, or similar platforms to track KPIs and generate actionable insights.
  • Demonstrated ability to monitor, analyze, and report on content performance, traffic trends, audience growth, and search performance metrics, translating findings into optimization recommendations.
  • Experience collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders, including marketing, content, product, and business teams, to drive coordinated campaign execution and achieve business goals.
  • Strong knowledge of search engine algorithms, digital marketing best practices, and emerging industry trends, with the ability to adapt strategies to maximize visibility, engagement, and performance.
  • Regular and reliable job attendance
  • Effective verbal and written communication skills

Benefits

  • AARP offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including a 401(k); 100% company-funded pension plan; health, dental, and vision plans; life insurance; paid time off to include company and individual holidays, vacation, sick, caregiving, and parental leave; performance-based and peer-based recognition and tuition reimbursement.
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AARP

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What we do might surprise you!AARP is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, social mission organization with a membership of nearly 38 million. Our aim is to disrupt outdated stereotypes about aging, turn goals and dreams into real possibilities, and fight for the issues that matter most to people 50-plus, their families and communities. Our social impact work in health security, financial resilience, and personal fulfillment is at the heart of what we do. With offices in every state plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, we live and work in the communities we serve. We listen to what people need and want, and offer programs, services and trusted information that are directly relevant to them. State offices also work with our national office to amplify our members’ voices at the local and federal levels to help empower people 50 and above to choose how they live and work as they age. From being a force for positive change to producing the nation’s largest-circulation magazine – the full scope of what we do might surprise you! That’s why people who are excited by unique opportunities and galvanized by meaningful challenges come to work at AARP.

Founded in 1958
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
6.5K employees (823 in marketing)
72% recommend to a friend
72% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
42.7M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$4.6M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
23.5%
Direct
71.1%
Referral
3.8%
Social
0.7%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~6.5K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
707 (11% of company)
Median Career Experience
17 years
Median Tenure
7.3 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
12

Funding

Last Raise
Grant, 7 years ago

Funding History

  • Jul 2019
    Grant

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