Manager, Search & Ai Discovery

Job Description
Merkle Cardinal Path is a leading digital analytics and digital marketing firm focused on delivering insight, understanding, and outcomes that create a competitive advantage for our clients. We engage at the strategic, business, and technical levels to generate tangible and quantifiable value for our partners.Merkle Cardinal Path’s mission is: To know. To Share. To be our Partners’ competitive advantage. And our company culture reflects the importance of our people’s expertise, wellness, and happiness in everything we do.Merkle Cardinal Path is rapidly expanding its Google Marketing Platform strategy with our clients, including media strategy, activation, platform management, analytics, and managed services to deliver transformational outcomes.Job Description
The Manager, SEO is a senior contact for SEO clients and is responsible not only for developing strong client relationships but also executing with excellence. The role is focused on providing expert knowledge, guidance and value to our clients through exceptional delivery and processes.Responsibilities
Lead SEO strategy, audits, and all ongoing SEO monitoring for Cardinal Path clients.Manage a roster of clients utilizing your past experience with successful client relationships and account management.Prepare and develop comprehensiveon-page, offsite and technical SEO strategies.Expert knowledge, and experience with competitive analysis, international SEO, mobile, blended search optimization, voice, local search, search + AI, and semantic searchAbility to communicate technical subjects and coordinate with clients to implement recommendations thatadhere toknownSEO best practices.Qualifications
Passion for SEO and digital marketing with a solid understanding of interactive marketing channels (search, online media, website development, etc.) and brand marketing principlesBachelor’s degree.5 years’ experience in search engine optimizationDemonstrated, expert technical experience & knowledge of current SEO methodologies and implementationAdvanced knowledge of Screaming Frog Spider, or other crawling software, SEO tools such as SEMRush, Majestic, aHrefsExpert experience in on-page optimizationAbility to effectively manage a project timeline.Excellent written and oral communication skillsExperience with Google Analytics, Google AdWords, Adobe Analytics,Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster ToolsTeam/ Leadership Skills
Deals well with the challenges of an internationally dispersed organization in a growing, dynamic company.Self-motivated, detail-and process-oriented, with excellent people and time management skillsUse sound judgment to identify issues and elevate them when appropriate.Contribute to improvements in processes (technical or business) used by analysts.Ability to identify key needs or gaps and provide leadership to close those gaps.At dentsu, we believe great work happens when we’re connected. Our hybrid way of working combines remote flexibility with regular in-person collaboration to spark ideas and strengthen our teams. Many of our employees who live within commuting distance (90 minutes) from one of our Headquarter or Hub Offices (New York, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles) are required to work in the office 2-3 days per week including one Team Day. The minimum number of days may vary by office and role. Dentsu may designate other HQ or Hub offices at any time. Those who do not live near an office may be designated as a remote employee, depending on the role and business needs. Regardless of your work location, we expect you to be flexible to meet the needs of our Company and clients, which may include attendance in an office from time to time.The hourly pay range for this position is $48-$58/ hour.The hourly pay ratefor the successful candidateis based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, knowledge skills, and other factorspermittedby law.Temporary employees are eligible for paid holidaysin accordancewithdentsu policy,as well assafe and sick time. This position is not eligible for any other benefits or other compensation.Temporary assignment starting ASAP through 5/01, with the potential to extend or convert to a permanent role;
however, neither is guaranteed at this time.W2 only. Candidates must be authorized to work and reside in the United States. We are also open to Canada.Must be available to work during Eastern Time (ET) business hours.#LI-EB1#LI-HybridLocation
USA - Remote - GeorgiaBrand
MerkleTime Type
Full timeContract Type
TemporaryDentsu is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees. We do this without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, ancestry, physical or mental disability, marital status, political affiliation, religious practices and observances, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.Dentsu is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to, among others, individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans. If you need an accommodation because of a disability to search and apply for a career opportunity with us, please send an e-mail to View email address on ca.hrm.tc by clicking on the link to let us know the nature of your accommodation request and your contact information. We are here to support you.
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