Associate Director, Performance Content (SEO/AEO/GEO)

Publicis Groupe ANZ; New York (NY); On-site; USD 64,485 - 92,698; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental and vision insurance

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Publicis Groupe ANZ is seeking a Freelance Associate Director, Performance Content to enhance brand and product discoverability across retail, commerce, and marketplace environments in New York. This role includes evaluating product content, making performance recommendations, and planning activations across key retailers.

The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in SEO, Paid Search, or Retail Media, strong vendor relations skills, and an analytical mindset to influence consumer decisions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in SEO, Paid Search, Retail Media or similar function.
• Strong commerce and retail media experience.
• Ability to work across brands and retail partners.

Responsibilities

• Identify relevant commerce and retail environments.
• Evaluate factors influencing consumer conversion.
• Partner with teams to recommend changes for performance improvement.

Skills

SEO

Paid Search

Retail Media

Marketplace Experience

Shopper Marketing

Tools

Amazon

Walmart

Target

Kroger

Instacart

Chewy

PetSmart

Job description

Company Description

Starcom is the world's first standalone media agency, a storied innovator that continues to lead the way for many of the world's best brands.

Starcom has long been the professional birthplace and proving ground for marketing leaders – CEOs, CMOs, sales leaders, and technology pioneers – and we continue to drive the industry with peerless talent and relentless innovation.

From the start, we've known that achieving growth for our clients requires understanding and connecting with real people where they live and work, in ways they value.

In an AI era, we remain "Guided By Humanity," a phrase that describes our foundational belief that human expertise must remain in the driver's seat, supported by the best processes and technology.

With our proprietary capabilities and Publicis Media's industry-leading resources and clout, we create ideas that move people and drive transformative business outcomes for brands.

Overview

The Freelance Associate Director, Performance Content will support AEO/GEO by strengthening brand and product discoverability across retail, commerce, marketplace, and retail media environments where consumer decisions are made and where AI systems may source or validate product information.

Responsibilities

• Identify commerce and retail environments most relevant to each segment, including retailer.com, marketplaces, retail media networks, and product detail page ecosystems.
• Evaluate how product content, retail taxonomy, reviews, availability, ratings, and merchandising may influence search, AI answer visibility, and consumer conversion.
• Partner with commerce, retail media, SEO, and brand teams to recommend practical changes that improve product discoverability and downstream performance.
• Translate GEO/AEO needs into commerce actions, such as improved PDP content, structured product information, retailer search optimization, marketplace presence, and retail media alignment.
• Identify where teams have control versus where retailer or partner coordination is required.
• Support activation planning across top priority retailers and marketplaces.
• Help connect AI/search visibility learnings to commerce performance and retail media planning.

Key Outputs

• Retail / commerce opportunity assessment.
• PDP and retailer search optimization recommendations.
• Retail media activation inputs.
• Marketplace discoverability plan.
• Commerce-specific AEO/GEO action roadmap.

Qualifications

• 5+ Years of experience in SEO, Paid Search, Retail Media or similar function
• Strong commerce, retail media, marketplace, or shopper marketing experience.
• Understanding of retailer search, PDP optimization, marketplace content, retail media activation, and conversion drivers.
• Ability to work across brands, retail partners, and internal commerce/media teams.
• Experience with platforms such as Amazon, Walmart, Target, Kroger, Instacart, Chewy, PetSmart, or similar preferred.
• Comfortable translating strategic AEO/GEO needs into practical commerce activation steps.

Additional information

Starcom is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our employment decisions are made without regard to actual or perceived race, color, ethnicity, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability, medical condition as defined by applicable state law, genetic information, marital status, military service and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws and ordinances.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact [e-mail].

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Compensation Range

USD $46.81 - $67.29/Hourly. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 8/17/2026.