We're Looking For A: Director, Organic Growth & AI VisibilityLocation: Hybrid (Woodland Hills, CA)What You'll Be Doing: The Director of Organic Growth & AI Visibility will lead all organic visibility and earned media functions for the Golden Hippo wellness portfolio brands. This includes SEO, AI/Answer Engine visibility, content strategy, public relations, and organic social.
- Multi-Brand Strategy & Integration
- Architect and lead the centralized organic growth roadmap for the Golden Hippo brand portfolio.
- Define cross-channel operating models that bridge the gap between high-authority brand storytelling and technical performance.
- Align Brand, Creative, Product Marketing, Performance, and Data teams around shared processes and KPIs.
- Next-Gen SEO & Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)
- Drive the evolution from traditional SEO to Entity-Based Optimization, ensuring our experts and brands are recognized as primary authorities in Google's Knowledge Graph.
- Build Golden Hippo's roadmap for visibility across AI-driven interfaces (ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google Search Generative Experience).
- Implement advanced structured data and schema strategies to maximize "machine readability" and dominate featured snippets and AI-generated answers.
- Content Strategy & Governance
- AI Implementation: Identify, audit and deploy AI tools to modernize the content lifecycle across editorial, multimedia, and modular formats.
- Develop automated workflows to transform long-form content into high-performing assets.
- Own governance, accuracy, and brand alignment across organic content.
- Video SEO & YouTube Ecosystem
- Serve as the high-level strategist for the existing YouTube teams, aligning their content roadmaps with broader brand growth goals and SEO initiatives.
- Bridge the gap between YouTube and other organic channels, ensuring "Hero" video content is systematically repurposed into high-authority SEO articles and PR assets.
- Support the team in maximizing Video SEO and "Short-to-Long" funnel strategies to increase channel authority and reach.
- Define unified metrics that track how video content contributes to the total "Halo Effect" of brand search and organic revenue.
- PR, Authority & Earned Media
- Partner with the PR team to synchronize media outreach with SEO "Entity" strategies, ensuring all earned coverage builds the founders' E-E-A-T (Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness).
- Implement AI-backed sentiment and attribution tools to move reporting from simple impressions to measurable brand-authority impact.
- Sync Social platform strategies with the broader organic content cycle, ensuring a unified brand voice across all "discovery" interfaces.
- Develop AI workflows for trend discovery and creative scaling, allowing the team to 10x engagement and in-app search visibility (TikTok/IG SEO) without increasing manual overhead.
- Analytics & Attribution
- Define and track unified KPIs that prove the value of organic , focusing on share of voice, sentiment, and organic-to-conversion attribution.
- Build cross-channel dashboards that visualize the "Halo Effect" of initiatives and programs on direct search volume and overall brand health.
- Lead testing and optimization across organic touchpoints.
Qualifications (Note: We strongly encourage you to apply even if you don't tick ALL of these boxes.):- 10+ years in SEO, content, communications, or organic growth roles.
- Minimum 5 years managing teams or leading cross-functional initiatives.
- Experience integrating SEO, PR, and social programs.
- Deep technical fluency in AI LLMs (GPT-4, Claude, etc.) and their application in content marketing.
- Knowledge of AI search/answer engines and emerging visibility platforms (preferred)
- Experience with data-driven PR or entity/structured data strategy (preferred)
- Proficiency in SEO, social, analytics, and PR tools (GA4, GSC, Ahrefs, Meltwater, Brandwatch, Sprout) (preferred)
Golden Perks & Benefits: - Comprehensive Healthcare Coverage - We cover 100% of premiums for employee-only medical, dental, and vision plans.
- Bonus Opportunities - Earn more with both annual and monthly bonus programs tied to performance.
- Investing in Your Future - We match up to 3.5% of your 401(k) contributions and offer a company-sponsored Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), helping your retirement savings grow alongside the company. Learn more.
- Work-Life Balance - Start your first year accruing up to 15 days of vacation, plus 6 paid sick and mental health days.
- Well-Being Support - Take advantage of our Employee Assistance Program, company closure dates, free weekly yoga and meditation classes, and expanded mental health benefits-we take a holistic approach to your well-being.
- Career Growth - Grow with us through our mentorship program, continuous learning opportunities, and performance-based pay increases designed to help you advance.
- Make an Impact - Give back through our charity sponsorships. Together, we've donated over $9 million to communities worldwide.
- Additional Benefits - Cell/internet reimbursement, free employee products, annual events, and more!
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The base salary range is $154,000 - $185,000, plus annual & monthly KPI bonus potential.
The posted salary range in this job posting reflects data based on California's cost of labor analysis. This salary range is subject to change per state; please click here to find the pay differential in your state of residence if the role is remote.
Salary is based on a wide range of factors that include relevant experience, knowledge, skills, other job-related qualifications, and geographical location.
