Senior SEO & Content Strategist — Remote Enterprise

Apply; Canada; Hybrid; CAD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Directive Consulting is the leading B2B marketing agency for brands that are serious about the metrics that matter most. With over a decade of expertise and 420+ B2B brands under our belt, we've earned our reputation on real outcomes.

We run through 3 divisions: Performance, Communications, and Commerce, all wired to share intelligence and answer to revenue. That system spans everything from Paid Media and Content Marketing, to PR and Paid Social, to Marketplace and Lifecycle Marketing.

Qualifications

• A proven track record of success around implementing SEO principles and content strategy: keyword research, on-page optimization, and link building
• Analytical insight: ability to analyse website traffic and SEO metrics using tools like Google Analytics
• Strong Communication skills: comfortable client facing and owning relationships with key stakeholders
• Strong familiarity with industry tools such as Google Search Console, Google Analytics, SEMRush, Ahrefs, Screaming Frog/crawling tools
• Proven organisational, project, and time management skills
• Genuine enthusiasm for digital marketing, SEO and Content
• Must have agency experience
• Must have B2B tech and/or SaaS experience
• Driven to stay ahead of industry trends, including actively learning how AI and automation can enhance marketing and operations.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Excellence and Best Practices: Strategists are responsible for creating custom strategies and implementing best practices for their clients that ultimately result in achieving our NSMs. The strategist will use project phase as a foundational moment for building the initial client strategy, but will also use our clients overall marketing goals, current and ongoing campaigns, and historical performance to optimize and revise strategies over the lifetime of the client while adhering to Directive best practices
• Goal Setting: Strategists are responsible for using available data to set goals for clients during their engagement period. These goals will be reviewed and approved by their Associate Director (AsD), who should be in the meeting with them.
• Project Management: Strategists are responsible for ensuring that their planned strategy is executed. Project Management ensures that the Directive team and the client team knows who is responsible for specific tasks to ensure we make progress towards our goals.
• Internal and External Communication: Strategists are the main interface between our clients and our team. Strategists are expected to build relationships with our clients that goes beyond just deliverables and get to know them on a human level with the primary goal of being the best consultant for our clients and their business.
• Reporting: Strategists are expected to regularly report to clients the progress and impact of their strategy. In support of this pilar strategists are expected to report on the following cadence:

Skills

SEO principles

Content strategy

Analytics

Client-facing

Agency experience

B2B SaaS experience

AI & automation awareness

Project management

Tools

Google Search Console

Google Analytics

SEMRush

Ahrefs

Screaming Frog

Job description

Directive Consulting is the leading B2B marketing agency for brands that are serious about the metrics that matter most. With over a decade of expertise and 420+ B2B brands under our belt, we've earned our reputation on real outcomes.

We run through 3 divisions: Performance, Communications, and Commerce, all wired to share intelligence and answer to revenue. That system spans everything from Paid Media and Content Marketing, to PR and Paid Social, to Marketplace and Lifecycle Marketing.