Director of SEO

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Director of SEO leading SEO strategy, operations, and AI-search innovation for HIP and Neon Canvas. Driving organic growth, retention, margins, and unified delivery across orthodontic and dental partner accounts.

Responsibilities:

  • Own the topical/authority roadmap, technical standard, off-page allocation, and GEO/AEO direction for HIP and Neon Canvas
  • Own rankings, traffic, organic-lead outcomes by vertical, and partner retention across both brands
  • Merge HIP and Neon Canvas SEO ways of working, tooling, and QA into one operating model
  • Own escalations, QBRs, and the function's voice to leadership
  • Own the service line's P&L, pricing and packaging, utilization and capacity, growth and expansion
  • Run pre-sales scoping and support sales as the SEO expert on pitches and proposals
  • Own org design, leveling and career paths, comp-band input, succession and bench planning, onboarding, and L&D
  • Manage vendors, contracts, and SLAs, including SEO tooling and plugin work; own the budget, risk, compliance, and brand safety at scale
  • Push emerging strategies including Reddit/community plays, AI-search visibility through GEO/AEO, LLM-citation tactics, and content automation
  • Lead AI enablement across SEO teams, tools, workflows, and training
  • Run 1:1s with each Team Lead for coaching, scorecard review, and unblocking
  • Personally work with at-risk or sliding partners while Team Leads own the rest

Requirements:

  • 2+ years as a Director of SEO or equivalent at an agency of similar size and scope, managing multi-client SEO across 500+ accounts
  • Direct experience unifying SEO across two brands or logos under one umbrella into a single operating model
  • 6+ years in SEO spanning technical, content/on-page, off-page/links, and local/GBP
  • Agency or multi-client experience strongly preferred
  • Orthodontic or dental experience is a plus
  • 2+ years leading other managers, not only individual specialists
  • Strong command of measurement (GSC/GA), modern SEO tooling, and emerging GEO/AEO
  • Proven change-management ability and experience merging or standardizing teams
  • Commercial literacy, including delivery margin, utilization, and growth, and experience partnering with sales
  • Excellent executive communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Must be located in the US
  • Must be available to work 8 am–5 pm CST Monday to Friday

Benefits:

  • 401(k) matching
  • Dental Insurance
  • Health Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • PTO eligibility after 90 days of hire (10 vacation days the first year of service, unlimited PTO starting year two, flexible partial days, and sick/ personal days)
  • Remote position