SEO Director

Digitas exists to make brands count. We’re a modern, data-inspired agency.

We are the only agency designed to offer clients who seek to transform their marketing, a complete stack of services, from integrated communications, to commerce to CRM and innovation services, across the world, all driven by our data about what really counts for businesses.

Our global workforce of 7,000 includes industry-leading creatives in each region, working with data scientists, technology experts and media specialists to demonstrate what can be achieved when hard data meets imagination.

What you’ll do:

As an SEO Director, you’ll grow the division and develop a strategic vision, whilst providing leadership to the team.  You’ll build the agency’s search best practice (SEO) to support aggressive revenue growth and take the Digitas brand to the next level of global recognition.

Day to day, your responsibilities will include:

• ✦Directing long-term and short-term strategic marketing efforts to meet both market share and sales goals
• ✦Helping to assess and pursue new business opportunities while maintaining the company’s existing strengths
• ✦Keeping a firm pulse on changes to the marketplace and industry, adjusting marketing plans accordingly 
• ✦Developing a world-class SEO team that will scale and thrive as the business grows
• ✦Effectively using tools to automate and scale the business in an efficient, cost-effective manner
• ✦Ensuring excellence and accuracy in all client deliverables and working with managers to present them
• ✦Developing all scopes of work that include search engine optimization
• ✦Collaborating with project managers on project timelines and with staffing on resource needs

We’re looking for a top-notch SEO Director who is also a delight to work with, which usually includes:

• ✦A relevant degree and at least 8 years of experience in a marketing management position with relevant SEO experience (Creative agency experience and international exposure are preferred)
• ✦A clear, insightful vision for the future direction of the marketplace, with a track record of thought leadership
• ✦Deep familiarity with the digital environment and an understanding of business from both market and P&L perspectives
• ✦Strong analytical and problem solving skills – and a knack for details
• ✦Outstanding leadership and people management skills
• ✦Stellar communication and presentation skills – you’re poised, articulate and convincing
• ✦Willingness to travel as needed – you’re open to new places, new faces and new ideas    

Got what it takes? We’d love to hear from you.

Digitas is an equal opportunity employer.

About Digitas

Digitas is The Connected Marketing Agency, committed to helping brands better connect with people through Truth. Connection. Wonder. With diverse expertise in data, strategy, creative, media, and tech, we work across capabilities and continents to make better connections and achieve ambitious outcomes through ideas that excite, provoke and inspire. Curious and fully transparent, we are always examining real human behavior to create authentic connections—between brands and consumers, clients and partners, and ideas and outcomes. Digitas has 3,300 employees across 12 countries and 24 offices, with an extended network via Publicis Media of over 23,500 employees present in more than 100 countries worldwide. To connect with Digitas or learn more, visit www.digitas.com