Principal Associate, SEO/GEO Marketing Strategist | Retail Bank

Wilmington, DE (Hybrid)

$110K/yr – $138K/yrSenior Level4+ years expFull time

Posted 4 days ago

Job Summary

Own the agency partner management, holistic SEO/GEO strategy, and cross-functional delivery for enterprise digital marketing, translating data-driven insights into actionable plans across research, technical optimization, content and governance.

  • Partner management and governance of agency relationships
  • Strategic SEO/GEO program development and execution
  • Content optimization, technical SEO, and AI-ready formats

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Management of Agency Partners: Day-to-day management of digital marketing agency, including building and iterating on meeting agendas, compiling takeaways and action items, communicating leadership messages to partners and handling all scheduling and logistics
  • Holistic Organic Strategy: Develop and execute comprehensive organic visibility strategies that bridge traditional search engine optimization (SEO) with emerging generative engine optimization (GEO) to maximize brand presence across search engines and AI chat interfaces.
  • Conversational & Intent-Based Research: Partner with digital marketing agency on advanced keyword, entity, and conversational query research to inform content roadmaps that satisfy both traditional search intent and the natural language prompts used in AI overviews (like Google SGE, Perplexity, and ChatGPT).
  • Technical & Semantic Optimization: Translate technical site audits from digital marketing agency into actionable briefs for the Site Ops/Content teams to ensure optimal crawlability, indexability, and the flawless implementation of advanced schema markup/structured data to help AI models easily parse and cite site content.
  • E-E-A-T & Digital PR: Drive initiatives to establish and amplify brand E-E-A-T (Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness), securing high-quality backlinks, unlinked brand mentions, and authoritative citations vital for traditional ranking and LLM inclusion.
  • Content Auditing & AI Adaptation: Regularly audit existing content libraries to identify performance decay, continuously optimizing legacy pages for semantic relevance, answer-box capture, and inclusion in generative AI summaries.
  • Performance Analytics & Reporting: Translate complex data from performance analysis reports and monitoring tools like Google Analytics, Google Search Console, and enterprise SEO platforms (e.g., Ahrefs) into actionable strategic pivots.
  • Cross-Functional Leadership: Partner closely with content marketing, PR, product, and UX/UI teams to ensure SEO/GEO best practices and architectural considerations are integrated into all digital initiatives from the ground up.
  • Algorithm & Landscape Monitoring: Stay at the absolute forefront of search engine algorithm updates, AI search rollouts, and changing LLM behaviors, designing controlled tests to understand how generative engines cite sources and adapting tactics accordingly.
  • Well-Managed Governance: Manage marketing creative review processes in workflow management systems; Flawlessly execute a well-managed governance process to ensure audit readiness for all consumer-facing marketing assets

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree or military experience
  • At least 4 years of digital marketing experience
  • At least 4 years of experience using G-Suite
  • At least 4 years of experience with Google Analytics and Google Marketing Platform products

Preferred

  • Experience in agile marketing principles
  • 5+ years of digital marketing experience
  • Experience working with Google Search Console, Data Studio, STAT, or SEMRushData
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At Capital One, we're making things better for our customers and associates through innovation and collaboration. We were founded on the belief that everyone deserves financial freedom—and are dedicated to a world where all have equal opportunity to prosper. Banking is in our DNA, but we are so much more than a bank. We always think about what’s next—and how we can bring our customers the tools needed to improve their financial lives. Your ideas, experiences and skills will help make banking better. You’ll be part of a supportive culture while earning amazing benefits. That’s life at Capital One. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. View our Social Media Community Guidelines https://www.capitalone.com/digital/social-media/

Founded in 1994
McLean, Va, US
62K employees (2,158 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$110K/yr – $138K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

The middle of this range ($124K) is 63% above the median base salary for SEO Strategist roles in the United States ($76K).

SEO Strategist median pay in the United States

$76K/yr

Most pay falls between $69K and $82K. Based on 59 salaries.

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