Responsibilities

• Define the LeapSpace search and AI-visibility strategy, shaping and pressure-testing the roadmap with the agency
• Leverage Elsevier's existing domain authority and assets, to accelerate visibility
• Act as internal owner and day-to-day contact for a specialist search and AI-visibility agency.
• Establish the technical content structure and structured data that get LeapSpace discovered
• Define the content taxonomy and information architecture - how content is organised, and hierarchised, so that individual pages can be cleanly extracted and cited
• Turn strategy into a coordinated programme of work, removing blockers and keeping contributors moving in the same direction
• Stay ahead of how discovery is changing and translate emerging shifts into a concrete plan
• Build effective working relationships with internal collaborators and cross-functional teams

Requirements

• Track record building organic search visibility, ideally including launching or scaling visibility for a new product or domain
• Strong command of technical and content SEO (site architecture, structured data, crawlability, content optimisation, link strategy)
• Demonstrable understanding of AEO and GEO
• Experience managing external agencies or partners
• Exceptional cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management; able to align and mobilise multiple teams toward a shared goal
• Strong analytical skills and fluency with search/analytics tooling
• Excellent communication skills — able to translate technical work for non-technical stakeholders
• Comfort working within a large, matrixed organisation across multiple market segments (e.g. consumer, institutional, government).

Benefits

• wellbeing initiatives
• shared parental leave
• study assistance
• sabbaticals
• country specific benefits