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Senior Associate, SEO

OMD USA
Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 1/17/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/15/2025

We are OMD, Cannes Lions 2024 Media Network of the Year, RECMA's Best-Performing Media Network Globally, and COMvergence's #1 Global Agency Network. As the world’s largest media network, with more than 12,000 people working in over 100 countries, we excel at making better decisions, faster. By combining innovation, creativity, empathy, and evidence, we help clients move faster, reach further, and take smarter risks in a world full of opportunities

We pride ourselves on being a people-obsessed, outcomes-focused business that applies evidence and data-based solutions, married with the practice of empathy, to drive performance and growth. When working with our clients, we put ourselves in the shoes of the consumer in order to see the world through their eyes. We focus on finding greater empathy with the consumer so as to uncover insights and opportunities that deliver more valued and valuable connections.

What You Can Expect

Our success is underwritten by our core principles :

  • Dynamic diversity. Bringing diversity of perspective, skillset, and background, as well as the mix of ages, genders, ethnicities, skillsets & backgrounds.
  • Radical collaboration. Connecting a diverse group of people through instinctive structures, skills and mindsets.
  • Rapid prototyping. Fostering a mindset of curiosity in which our people are always building, testing, evolving and retesting hypotheses. All of which is underpinned by a commitment to total transparency.

SEO Senior Associate

As Senior Associate, SEO reporting to the SEO Manager, you will be responsible for researching and implementing innovative SEO / content projects for enterprise clients. You will be analyzing client sites and assets for technical issues and opportunities, conducting extensive consumer keyword and content research, and consulting throughout the implementation process to help clients reach better visibility in organic search and drive incremental traffic and conversions.

Responsibilities

As a pivotal team member within our SEO account team, the below will give you a sense of what your day-to-day tasks can encompass :

  • Assist client teams in developing SEO strategies and content programs that meet their business growth goals
  • Conduct keyword research using a mix of SEO tools and analytics data to identify key search terms used by consumers to find products and information
  • Work on page-level optimizations to ensure core page elements are optimized for target keywords and enable sites to rank higher in organic search results
  • Conduct technical site audits to identify errors, indexability issues and areas where sites don’t adhere to search engine best practices
  • Put together a content opportunity assessment by recommending new content topics based on popular searches and questions asked by consumers
  • Create client-facing presentations, research, and execution documents
  • Collaborate with client’s technical and content team(s) in order to implement proposed recommendations.
  • Assist with monthly, quarterly and ad-hoc reports by pulling organic traffic, keyword rankings and other KPIs to measure the effectiveness of optimizations and develop insights about the impact of key SEO initiatives
  • Work with cross functional departments, including Paid Search and Social Media, to develop and track all details of SEO initiatives and digital performance.
  • About You

  • Extremely organized with excellent project time management skills
  • Hard-working, consistent, reliable, with strong attention to detail
  • Strategic thinker, intrinsically curious in each and every task with a positive attitude in all that you do
  • Outstanding project management and organization skills managing multiple workflows
  • Effective communicator, comfortable using data to tell a story while evoking camaraderie between all team members
  • Solution-oriented with an impeccable eye for detail, you are comfortable with ambiguity and can grasp new concepts
  • Team player, quick to adapt and eager to collaborate on projects
  • Not afraid to ask questions or seek guidance when faced with a challenge but is also capable of finding solutions independently through research and data analysis
  • Qualifications

  • 1 years of tactical and strategic experience in SEO (search engine optimization) either in-house or agency environments
  • Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, advertising, journalism or communications
  • Have a working knowledge of leading Web Analytics and SEO tools
  • Strong keyword research abilities
  • Have experience with on-page SEO : optimizing meta tags, H1's, meta tags, navigation and copy for target keywords
  • Basic knowledge of technical SEO : site crawl and error detection, schema, load speed and core web vitals
  • Strong working knowledge of Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
  • Knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript is a plus
  • Possess a desire to work for a fast-paced, results-driven company
  • What You Can Expect

  • A supportive and inclusive environment where people feel empowered to speak up their mind and share ideas
  • The opportunity to make this role your own, customize deliverables and improve processes
  • Access to a wide spectrum of training programs to hone your business skills and expand your professional knowledge
  • Career development support and opportunity to grow within the agency
  • This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on relevant experience, other job-related qualifications / skills, and geographic location (to account for comparative cost of living). The Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. For this role, benefits include : health insurance, vision insurance, dental insurance, 401(k), Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, vacation days, sick days, personal days, paid parental leave, paid medical leave, and STD / LTD insurance benefits.

    Compensation Range

    60,000—$65,000 USD

    This role is hybrid, requiring three (3) days per week in the office. The remaining two (2) days may be worked remotely. Specific in-office days will be discussed during the interview process, with flexibility to align with team needs. Please note that the number or required in-office days may be adjusted over time, potentially increasing the number of required in-office days based on business needs.

    OMD is An Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.

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