Sr. Director, Paid Media & SEO

Neighborly

$120K — $150K *
Media
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in media, growth marketing, or digital strategy
  • Integrated media strategy experience across paid, owned, and SEO channels
  • Expertise in AI-driven discovery and conversational search
  • Ability to convert enterprise growth goals into analytics-driven media plans
  • Strong leadership skills with experience managing high-performing teams

Responsibilities

  • Lead the development of an integrated media and AI-driven discovery strategy
  • Translate business objectives into performance-driven media plans with clear KPIs
  • Build AI frameworks and tools for franchise media effectiveness
  • Identify AI applications for optimizing audience targeting and content creation
  • Collaborate with teams to enhance partnership infrastructures and accountability

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with in-office and remote days
  • Financial benefits including equity and bonuses
  • Competitive pay based on experience
  • Comprehensive benefits offerings
Full Job Description
Sr. Director, Paid Media & SEO

As a Sr. Director, Paid Media & SEO on the Marketing team, a typical day for you will include:
  • Lead integrated media & AI-driven discovery strategy: Own end-to-end visibility and demand generation across paid, owned, earned, and emerging AI channels, including GEO, conversational search, and LLM ecosystems.
  • Translate business goals into performance-driven media plans: Define clear objectives, KPIs, and investment strategies; leverage data, AI, and analytics to optimize campaigns and drive growth.
  • Enable franchise media effectiveness at scale: Build AI-powered frameworks, tools, and playbooks to guide franchise owners in optimizing local media mix, targeting, and ROI across channels.
  • Advance AI innovation in marketing & commerce: Identify and scale AI applications for media optimization, audience targeting, content creation, and prepare the organization for agentic commerce and A2A environments.
  • Strengthen ecosystem partnerships & infrastructure: Collaborate with Product, Martech, and Data teams to enable machine-readable discovery; establish and manage agency frameworks, ensuring accountability for innovation and performance.


Bring your skills and be inspired to achieve success.

(Required qualifications)
  • Experience:
    • 10+ years of experience in media, growth marketing, or digital strategy
    • Experience in defining and executing an integrated media strategy across paid, owned, SEO, and emerging discovery channels, increasing share of voice and driving measurable gains in traffic, engagement, and conversion.
    • Experience leading the evolution from traditional search to AI-driven discovery, developing GEO strategies, optimizing for conversational search, and improving brand visibility across LLMs and AI assistants.
    • Experience translating enterprise growth objectives into data-driven media plans, KPIs, and investment strategies-leveraging advanced analytics and AI to continuously optimize performance and uncover new demand opportunities.
  • Skills:
    • Proven success leading both paid and organic media programs.
    • Strong analytical mindset with experience managing multi million dollar budgets.
    • Proven operational experience building experimentation infrastructure.
    • Experience managing and developing high performing teams.
  • Education:
    • Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or a related field.
  • Schedule / in-office requirements:
    • Hybrid working model; Monday-Wednesday in office, Thursday/Friday from home.
    • Our office locations are:
      • 500 E John Carpenter Fwy, Irving, TX
      • 1010 N University Parks Drive, Waco, TX


Bring your goals and be enabled to reach them.
  • Competitive Pay: Commensurate with experience
  • Schedule: Full-time, Monday - Friday, 8 AM - 5 PM local time zone
  • Benefits: Check out our benefits offerings here: Neighborly Benefits
  • Financial Benefits: Equity and bonus opportunities


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