Senior Manager, SEO & GEO

At dentsu we help leading brands win visibility across a search landscape thats changing fast. Were looking for a Senior Manager GEO to lead daytoday strategy team operations and client delivery across traditional SEO and AIpowered discovery for a complex enterprise client.

This is not a legacy SEO role with a new label. Youll be a leader in reshaping discovery through generative AI answer engines and LLMs - and help turn whats emerging into structured scalable programs. Youll lead teams partner with senior stakeholders and balance technical rigor with experimentation as the discipline evolves. This role is ideal for a strong SEO leader who is excited by the search evolution.

What Youll Lead & Own:

GEO & SEO Strategy Leadership

• Shape and evolve the teams GEO approach identifying new opportunities testing emerging tactics and translating learnings into best practices

• Partner closely with the Director on account direction priorities and escalations

• Serve as the primary daytoday client contact and escalation point leading working sessions presentations and strategic discussions

Technical & Content Excellence

• Lead technical audits across crawlability indexation site architecture structured data and Core Web Vitals

• Guide keyword research competitive analysis content opportunity assessments and AI visibility evaluations

• Lead GEO workstreams focused on content clarity authority signals citation readiness and discoverability in generative search experiences

• Translate technical findings and performance trends into clear prioritized recommendations tied to business outcomes

Performance Measurement & Delivery

• Oversee performance reporting insights and business cases tied to GEO & SEO Impact

• Monitor scope pacing and delivery qualitysurfacing risks early and escalating as needed

• Support major initiatives including site migrations redesigns CMS changes and largescale launches

• Partner crossfunctionally with content analytics media development and client teams

People & Operational Leadership

• Manage and develop junior team members through coaching feedback and career support

• Oversee team workflows prioritization and QA to ensure clientready delivery

• Support hiring and onboarding helping new team members ramp quickly and effectively

• Improve processes templates and ways of working to increase efficiency and elevate quality

• Contribute to broader capability building through training POVs and thought leadership

What You Bring

Experience & Skills

• 5 years of SEO experience ideally in an agency or enterprise environment

• 1 years of direct people management experience

• Proven experience leading enterpriselevel accounts and complex workstreams

• Deep understanding of technical SEO content strategy onpage/offpage optimization and performance analysis

• Exposure to GEO / AEO / LLMO workflows preferred including AI visibility or citation analysis (e.g. Profound Bluefish)

• Working knowledge of HTML CSS JavaScript and structured data

• Handson experience with tools like Google Search Console GA4 Adobe Analytics Screaming Frog BrightEdge Semrush Ahrefs or similar

• Strong ability to turn complex data into clear narratives and actionable recommendations

• Confident credible presence with client stakeholders

Mindset & Growth Orientation

• Curious about how AI systems surface interpret and cite information

• Energized by ambiguity and motivated to build in a growing space

• Grounded in performance and databut excited to test learn and iterate

• Actively engaged in the industry and able to form informed points of view

• Comfortable leading teams through change and developing workstreams

What Success Looks Like

• You lead GEO and SEO work with strong judgment prioritization and followthrough

• Your team delivers polished highimpact work and continues to grow

• Clients trust you to navigate complexity and translate emerging change into action

• GEO evolves from experimentation into structured scalable impact under your leadership

Why dentsu

Youll lead highimpact search work at a moment when the discipline is expanding rapidly. This role offers the chance to grow deep expertise in GEO LLMO and advanced SEO manage and develop a strong team and help define how modern search and AIdriven discovery evolve in practice.

The annual salary range for this position is80- 100K.Placement within the salary range is based on a variety of factors including relevant experience knowledge skills and other factorspermittedby law.

Benefits available with this position include:

Medical vision and dental insurance

Life insurance

Short-term and long-term disability insurance

401k

Flexible paid time off

At least 15 paid holidays per year

Paid sick and safe leave and

Paid parental leave.

Dentsu alsocomplies withapplicable state and local lawsregardingemployee leave benefits including but not limited to providing time offpursuant tothe Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Actin accordance withits plans and policies. For further detailsregardingDentsu benefits please visit.

To begin the application process please click on the Apply button at the top of this jobposting. Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis and qualified candidates will be contacted fornextsteps.

Atdentsu we believegreat workhappens whenwereconnected. Our way of working combines flexibility with in-person collaboration to spark ideas and strengthen our teams. Employees who live within a commutable distance of one of our hub offices currentlylocatedin Chicago metro Detroit Los Angeles and New York City areand expected to work from the office three days per week (two days per week for employees based in Los Angeles). Dentsu maydesignateother Hub offices at any time. Those who live outside a commutable range may bedesignated asremote depending on the role and business needs. Regardless of your work location we expect our employees to be flexible to meet the needs of our Company and clients which may include attendance in an office.

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