Associate Discoverability Director, SEO & GEO

Location: Chicago, Illinois; Kansas City, Missouri; Minneapolis, Minnesota; or Rogers, Arkansas, United States. Hybrid work with office attendance an average of four days per week.

Base salary: $75,000–$100,000 USD annually.

Company

hirify.global is a global creative company combining brand experience, customer experience, and commerce to create connected brands, and is part of WPP.

What you will do

• Advise enterprise clients on organic search, technical SEO, content discoverability, and AI-search readiness through strategic guidance and consulting.
• Lead client planning sessions, workshops, presentations, roadmap development, search strategy, audits, competitive analyses, and performance measurement.
• Oversee organic search stewardship, recommendations, client communication, deliverable quality, deadlines, and adoption of SEO programs.
• Review client-facing decks, performance reports, strategies, and direct reports’ work while coordinating with technology, content, innovation, and other agency departments.
• Guide and mentor Connection Managers, Senior Connection Managers, Connection Supervisors, and junior staff; contribute to hiring and training.
• Support pitches, RFPs, RFIs, scoping, vendor relationships, thought leadership, case studies, awards, and practice development.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Advertising, Journalism, Business, Technology, English, Linguistics/Language, Communications, Digital/Web/Interactive, Psychology, or a related field.
• 8–10 years of SEO experience with significant client-facing advisory experience.
• Expert SEO, including technical SEO; working knowledge of GEO and AI-search visibility.
• Advanced Semrush proficiency; familiarity with Moz, BrightEdge, SearchMetrics, and similar organic search tools.
• Advanced web analytics and Search Console analysis, plus basic HTML and structured data literacy.
• Experience with AI platforms such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity; workshop facilitation, public speaking, presentations, roadmap development, research, Excel, Keynote or PowerPoint, time tracking and hours forecasting, and basic project management.
• Consultation, executive presence, stakeholder management, strategy, critical thinking, prioritization, scope discipline, collaboration, education, resourcefulness, discretion, detail orientation, and willingness to explore AI.

Nice to have

• Consultative or pre-sales experience for a SaaS or martech platform.
• Experience advising enterprise clients across multiple industries on SEO program design and operationalization.
• Hands-on experience with Semrush Enterprise or AI visibility tooling.
• Familiarity with Adobe Experience Cloud products.
• Relevant certifications, such as Semrush Academy or Google Analytics.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work model with teams in the office an average of four days per week.
• Competitive benefits package.
• Accommodation or flexibility requests can be discussed with the hiring team.
• Equal opportunity workplace focused on respect, belonging, and career progression.