Position Summary:
Bold Orange is seeking a proactive, strategic, and customer-centered Associate Director of SEO to join the digital experience strategy team. As a member of Bold Orange’s SEO team, you can expect to lead client engagements from business development through retainer management and strategic reporting engagements.
We are looking for candidates who think outside the box to deliver “And Then Some” for our clients and unite best-in-class digital strategy with the latest SEO and content strategy best practices. As a future-focused agency, Bold Orange needs talent who are endlessly curious about how to increase brand visibility on the web, including – but not limited to – showing innovative approaches for applying AI, adapting to Google algorithm shifts, and showing impact in other areas of search such as social and retail networks. Your experience should come from leading agency and/or in-house teams poised to drive strategic growth wherever it is relevant for customers to find brands through proving the business value of SEO.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Jump in and lead holistic SEO engagements in partnership with client strategy representatives, onboard them to the agency, and support successful project delivery.
- Leverage your SEO prowess and experience to shape solutions and drive results for SEO projects for all types of clients. You may be asked to be an individual contributor as well as to delegate and distribute work among SEO strategists and other team members.
- Create engaging presentations including data-centric insights, competitive intelligence, and strategic direction in an easy-to-understand way to client audiences at the manager, director, and executive levels.
- Nurture and expand collaboration between experience strategy, creative, media, analytics and client strategy teams to enhance immediate project delivery quality and long-term client success.
- Mentor, show strategic leadership, and support practice growth for a strong SEO team. Assess skill gaps, client needs and support appropriate career advancement.
- Show a deep understanding of client business problems and be able to show why SEO strategies – technical or content-based – will impact their businesses with financial and strategic benefits.
- Develop and clearly articulate points of view to confidently lead understanding of SEO internally at the agency and for our diverse set of clients.
- Author technical documentation, analytical research, and campaign strategies.
- Negotiate project changes and navigate challenges.
- Monitor and proactively report on best practices and overall market trends.
Required Qualifications:
- 8+ years relevant work experience consulting on SEO and digital strategy for medium to large businesses
- Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, communications, public relations, or equivalent work experience.
- Ability to guide data and reporting and provide summaries and insights to the clients
- Ability to delegate, plan and prioritize to manage project workload effectively and efficiently.
- Passion for monitoring SEO industry news and best practices (such as using new tools, algorithm updates, and analysis methods), creating POV documentation, and communicating them clearly to teams and clients.
- Passion for learning the client’s business and how search affects its brands, across owned and influenced properties.
- Strong storytelling and overall PowerPoint presentation skills: You should be able to build and tell a story through your presentations
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to diplomatically handle a fast-paced work environment
- Strong attention to detail
- Desire to work in a fast-paced creative environment with a “can-do” attitude that inspires teams and clients
- Strong leaderships skills and passion for mentoring and growing teams
- Ongoing curiosity in SEO innovation a must
Who We Are:
Our tone is professionally sassy. We embrace meat raffles, hot seats, and the occasional Jell‑O shot. We like staff meetings that are informative, educational, and at times, damn funny. We believe in no hierarchy, no bullshit, no politics. Just honest, hard work and great fun.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
We are an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to a policy of nondiscrimination in employment on any basis including race, color, creed, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, national origin, marital status, familial status, ancestry, status as a veteran, status with regard to public assistance and any other characteristic protected by law. Bold Orange does not and will not discriminate against employees, prospective employees, clients or vendors.
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