[Remote] Associate Director, SEO Content - Media - US Remote - Contractor

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. DEPT® is hiring an Associate Director of SEO & GEO Content for a short-term consulting role leading content strategy, production, and account performance across medium to large accounts. The role combines strategic leadership with hands-on content development, team mentorship, cross-functional collaboration, and account growth.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Account Leadership: Lead SEO and GEO content strategy across a portfolio of medium to large accounts, connecting client objectives, audience needs, competitive opportunities, and performance data to clear priorities and measurable outcomes
• SEO & GEO Strategy: Use keyword and prompt research, citation analysis, audience insights, and competitive findings to strengthen brand visibility and authority across traditional and generative search
• Content Production and Editorial Leadership: Develop strategies, roadmaps, briefs, outlines, and recommendations, while writing, editing, and optimizing content as needed. Guide work from ideation through final QA, maintaining high standards for accuracy, clarity, brand alignment, user experience, and SEO/GEO performance
• AI-Assisted Content Development: Apply AI tools across research, briefing, drafting, editing, and quality assurance while maintaining human oversight of factual accuracy, source quality, originality, brand voice, and subject-matter expertise
• Team and Capability Development: Manage and mentor Content Strategists while improving the frameworks, workflows, templates, and editorial standards that support high-quality content production at scale
• Integrated Collaboration: Partner with technical SEO, analytics, design, development, digital PR, paid media, project management, and account teams to deliver connected strategies and address complex client needs
• Account and Business Growth: Identify opportunities to expand existing accounts and contribute to pitches, proposals, scopes, staffing plans, and capabilities presentations. Stay current on changes in search, AI platforms, content discovery, and audience behavior, translating developments into practical recommendations for clients and internal teams

Skills

• A minimum of 7 years of relevant experience in content strategy, SEO, digital content, editorial strategy, or a related discipline
• Experience leading complex content programs across multiple medium to large client accounts, preferably within an agency environment
• Demonstrated expertise in developing content strategies that connect search demand, audience needs, brand positioning, and business objectives
• Strong knowledge of SEO fundamentals, including search intent, keyword research, content architecture, internal linking, on-page optimization, and organic performance analysis
• A working understanding of GEO, generative search platforms, AI citations, prompt tracking, answer visibility, and how these areas connect to broader content strategy
• Experience managing, mentoring, or developing content strategists, writers, and editors
• Strong executive communication skills, with the ability to make complex concepts clear, relevant, and actionable for senior stakeholders
• Proven ability to assess account performance, identify strategic risks and opportunities, and guide teams toward the appropriate response
• Strong editorial judgment and the ability to evaluate content for quality, usefulness, accuracy, search intent, brand alignment, and strategic value
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams, including SEO, analytics, account management, project management, design, development, and digital PR
• Commercial awareness and experience identifying account growth opportunities, contributing to scopes, or supporting new-business development
• Strong organizational and prioritization skills, with the ability to oversee multiple accounts and workstreams while maintaining attention to quality
• Comfort working through ambiguity and developing practical approaches in areas where platforms, tools, and measurement standards continue to evolve
• Curiosity, adaptability, and a desire to challenge established thinking while remaining focused on client and audience needs

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