Job DescriptionThe Director, SEO & GEO leads SEO and generative engine optimization strategy and performance across a portfolio of client engagements within Klick Media. Reporting to the VP, Head of SEO and GEO, this role provides senior client counsel, develops SEO and GEO practitioners, and partners across Media, Medical, Strategy, Creative, Technology, Analytics, and Brand teams. The role translates developments in search, AI discovery, and answer engines into practical, evidence-based strategies for life sciences brands while helping evolve Klick's SEO and GEO capabilities.
What You'll Do- Lead and develop a team of SEO and GEO practitioners through coaching, performance management, career development, and quality oversight across active client work.
- Own SEO and GEO strategy, delivery quality, and performance across a portfolio of client engagements, using search, AI visibility, analytics, and business outcomes to guide recommendations.
- Manage capacity, utilization, staffing, scoping, revenue forecasting, and margin across the portfolio to support sustainable delivery and accurate resource planning.
- Advance Klick's GEO framework through prompt-set design, sampling methodology, measurement approaches, AI visibility tooling, off-site authority strategy, and testing across search and answer engines.
- Advise senior clients and cross-functional partners on SEO and AI discovery opportunities while contributing to pitches, proposals, scopes of work, published insights, and growth of existing client relationships.
QualificationsRequired:- 8+ years of SEO experience, including ownership of complex strategies for enterprise-scale websites and demonstrated search, traffic, visibility, or business results.
- 3+ years of people leadership experience managing SEO, digital, or search practitioners, with direct responsibility for coaching, performance management, career development, and team capability building.
- Demonstrated expertise in technical SEO, content strategy, search intent, site architecture, structured data, entity optimization, authority development, enterprise migrations, and off-site search signals.
- Hands-on experience developing or testing GEO, AEO, AI search, or answer-engine visibility approaches, including prompt-set design, sampling methodologies, measurement frameworks, and evidence-based interpretation of results.
- Strong working proficiency with Google Analytics 4, Google Search Console, and Screaming Frog, plus experience using platforms such as Ahrefs, Semrush, Similarweb, and at least one AI visibility platform such as Profound, Bluefish, or Ahrefs Brand Radar.
- Experience leading a portfolio of agency or consulting engagements, including senior client relationships, cross-functional delivery, resource planning, utilization, scopes of work, pitches, proposals, and commercial decision-making.
Desired:- Comfort and enthusiasm for using AI as a regular part of how work gets done.
- Experience in healthcare, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, or another regulated industry, including work within MLR, compliance, privacy, or data-governance processes.
- Experience with HCP and patient information ecosystems, including familiarity with platforms such as OpenEvidence, Doximity, and third-party sources that influence AI-generated answers.
- Experience leading international or multi-market search programs, including localization strategies, regional search requirements, or market-specific prompt sets.
- Experience building or scaling a GEO, AI search, or emerging-search offering, including new services, measurement frameworks, team processes, or automation with appropriate human review.
Additional InformationThis posting is for a newly created role at Klick. The base salary range for this position is between CAD $120,000-140,000. The base salary for this position will be determined based on several factors such as a candidate's work location, their unique skill set, education, and prior work experience.
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