Full-Time

Associate SEO Director

Amsive

Amsive

501-1,000 employees

Full-service data-driven marketing agency

Compensation Overview

$100k/yr

No H1B Sponsorship

Remote in USA

Hybrid

Remote or hybrid; occasional visits to the New York or Nashville offices are expected.

Category
Growth & Marketing (1)
Required Skills
Microsoft Office
SEO
Data Analysis
HTML/CSS
Excel/Numbers/Sheets
Google Analytics
PowerPoint/Keynote/Slides

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Requirements
  • The candidate must have 7 or more years of experience in organic search engine marketing.
  • The candidate must be able to plan and execute strategically to drive growth for clients and the company.
  • The candidate must have proven team leadership and management experience with the ability to grow direct reports.
  • The candidate must have strong project management and organizational skills and be able to prioritize and manage multiple teams and projects.
  • The candidate must have strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to speak and write persuasively in marketing and interpersonal contexts, pitches, and C-suite meetings.
  • The candidate must be proficient in the Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
  • The candidate must have expert knowledge of standard and enterprise search engine optimization tools, including Google Analytics 4, Google Search Console, Botify, Screaming Frog, ContentKing, Moz, STAT, Conductor Searchlight, BrightEdge, SEMrush, and Ahrefs.
Responsibilities
  • Oversee, advise, or assist with management of key accounts by building client relationships and managing project delivery as needed to ensure client retention or expansion.
  • Support the business development team on requests for proposals, strategy presentations, and written proposals, and support account teams on upsells, program expansions, cross-sells, and addendums for existing clients.
  • Provide strategic and tactical guidance to team members for successful execution of SEO programs and projects.
  • Analyze performance data and develop key insights for quarterly and annual business reviews for key accounts.
  • Align SEO strategy with client goals in collaboration with Account Directors and Strategists.
  • Implement AI search recommendations alongside SEO strategy in collaboration with the Director of AEO/GEO and the AI search practice.
  • Develop SEO program or project plans and scope definitions with Business Development and Sales.
  • Support execution of strategies for SEO clients as needed.
  • Review proposals and statements of work to ensure technology fees and resource hours are accurately scoped before approval and client delivery.
  • Ensure accurate account resource time tracking across the organic services channel, review tracked hours, and recommend scope updates as needed.
  • Directly manage at least two SEO strategists of varying levels and oversee the teams reporting to those strategists.
  • Develop basic, intermediate, and advanced SEO knowledge among team members with the goal of advancing staff one to two levels within two years.
  • Develop and curate SEO training curricula and materials in partnership with Associate Directors and Channel Directors.
  • Review and update organic training curricula and materials semi-annually as needed.
  • Foster a challenging staff culture that drives continual learning and improvement across team levels.
  • Ensure timely interim and annual reviews for all team members and regularly evaluate the tangible goals established through those reviews.
  • Lead and facilitate SEO channel meetings and huddles, develop internal team communications, and advance team-wide learning through industry best practices.
  • Participate in company huddles and cross-channel training as an SEO subject matter expert.
  • Provide support and recognition for SEO teams and foster teamwork that drives motivation and retention.
  • Participate in staff training, individual development, onboarding, and mentoring.
  • Support channel and company hiring activities, conduct interviews, and document evaluations for prospective and current employees as needed.
  • Oversee procurement and management of external organic-services contractors and freelancers and evaluate their alignment with account and channel budgets and standards.
  • Evaluate, recommend, and contract vendors to support channel performance and profitability with Channel Directors.
  • Support Channel Directors in managing and improving division workflow by assigning accounts based on team capacity.
  • Analyze team capacity with strategists, report capacity to Channel Directors monthly, and use time-tracking analytics to improve resource efficiency.
  • Contribute to organic-search thought leadership, innovation, process improvement, and client initiatives in partnership with Channel Directors.
  • Monitor industry developments, participate in internal marketing discussions, and facilitate knowledge transfer as developments affect client work.
  • Contribute to new product offerings, practice innovations, corporate initiatives, automation projects, process changes, and rollouts.
  • Develop tools to improve efficiency and advance the practice.
  • Recommend organic-services measurements, monitoring, methodologies, and platforms for agency adoption and execute them with the Channel Director.
Desired Qualifications
  • Agency experience is preferred.
  • Proficiency in HTML is preferred.

Amsive is a full-service marketing services agency created by combining several specialized firms under Vision and backed by H.I.G. Capital. It offers a complete suite of marketing services, from direct mail and data-driven direct marketing to digital advertising, SEO, paid media, analytics, and performance marketing. The process centers on a data-centric approach that integrates traditional direct marketing with digital campaigns, using data intelligence and multi-channel coordination to plan, execute, and optimize campaigns across channels. Its differentiation comes from being formed through the strategic integration of multiple agencies, giving it broad, cross-disciplinary capabilities and scale, combined with a unified, end-to-end service model. The goal is to make data-focused marketing accessible to a wider range of companies while managing every aspect of a marketing campaign from strategy to execution.

Company Size

501-1,000

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Bolingbrook, Illinois

Founded

1980

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Michael Coppola became CEO in February 2025, sharpening the agency's digital-first strategy.
  • The Profound partnership positions Amsive for brands shifting budgets into AI search discovery.
  • MSN's technical SEO turnaround and 2025 awards strengthen new business credibility immediately.

What critics are saying

  • Amsive laid off 60 Springboro workers in May 2024, then closed that plant.
  • Headcount fell from 514 in 2023 to 465 in 2026, signaling operational pressure.
  • Private equity integration remains fragile; another client loss could force deeper restructuring in 2026.

What makes Amsive unique

  • Amsive combines SEO, paid media, direct mail, and data science under one roof.
  • Its 2025 AEO launch with Profound targets visibility inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews.
  • Amsive won 2025 Search Engine Land Agency of the Year – SEO for MSN.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Company Match

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Paid Sick Leave

Paid Holidays

Parental Leave

Hybrid Work Options

Remote Work Options

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

26%

1 year growth

26%

2 year growth

26%
PR Newswire
Oct 30th, 2025
Amsive Named "Agency of the Year - SEO" in the 2025 Search Engine Land Awards and Wins "Best Overall SEO Initiative - Enterprise" for Transformative Work with MSN

Amsive named "Agency of the Year - SEO" in the 2025 Search Engine Land Awards and wins "Best Overall SEO Initiative - Enterprise" for transformative work with MSN. News provided by. Oct 30, 2025, 09:00 ET NEW YORK and CHICAGO, Oct. 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ - Amsive, a leading performance marketing agency that connects data, creative, and media to drive measurable growth, today announced it has been honored as "Agency of the Year - SEO" at the 2025 Search Engine Land Awards, one of the search industry's most prestigious recognitions. Amsive also took home "Best Overall SEO Initiative - Enterprise" for its groundbreaking work with MSN. The Agency of the Year - SEO award recognized Amsive's campaign, "How Amsive Rescued MSN's Global Visibility Through Enterprise Technical SEO at Scale," celebrating the agency's ability to execute complex, global strategies that deliver measurable business outcomes and sustainable impact. Amsive also received Best Overall SEO Initiative - Enterprise for its project, "825 Million Clicks, Zero Content Edits: How Amsive Engineered MSN's Technical SEO Turnaround." This initiative drove significant improvements in visibility and engagement by focusing solely on technical SEO innovation, with no changes to editorial content. Notably, this marks the fourth time Amsive has earned the Best Overall SEO Initiative - Enterprise award from Search Engine Land (previously in 2018, 2020, and 2022), underscoring the agency's consistent leadership and proven excellence in enterprise-scale SEO innovation. "These awards recognize not only the strength of our SEO + AEO practice but the impact of our integrated approach connecting audience intelligence, creative strategy, and performance execution," said Michael Coppola, CEO of Amsive. "I'm incredibly proud of our team's innovation and the measurable results they deliver for our clients every day." "This recognition from Search Engine Land reflects years of deep collaboration and innovation within our SEO team," said Lily Ray, Vice President, SEO Strategy & Research at Amsive. "We've built a culture that thrives at the intersection of data science, technical excellence, and creative strategy. It's incredibly rewarding to see that work celebrated on an industry stage." "Winning these awards validates the power of enterprise-scale technical SEO done right," added Romain Damery, Sr. Director, Technical SEO at Amsive. "Our MSN partnership showcases how precise diagnostics, strategic prioritization, and technical craftsmanship can unlock exponential growth, even for some of the world's largest and most complex web ecosystems." The wins follow Amsive's recent announcement of expanded AEO capabilities, helping brands navigate the next era of AI-driven search. Together, these milestones reinforce Amsive's position as a leader in SEO innovation and performance marketing transformation. About Amsive Amsive is a data-led performance marketing agency that enhances ROI through innovative customer acquisition, engagement, and communications solutions. A full-service partner with both digital and direct-native expertise, Amsive designs audience, creative, and channel strategies that amplify growth leveraging in-house campaign and production capabilities for seamless execution. At the core of Amsive's success is Audience Science(R), our unique approach to audience building and analysis, channel activation, testing, and measurement. We navigate today's marketing complexity to develop optimal audiences and surpass performance objectives, always focusing on your next best customer. To learn more, visit Amsive.com. About The Search Engine Land Awards The Search Engine Land Awards launched in New York City back in 2016 and has grown into an industry-leading program recognizing excellence in search marketing (organic search engine optimization and paid search advertising). Applicants are evaluated for best practices in core aspects of SEO and PPC, and the results driven by search-focused campaign initiatives. A portion of all proceeds from entry fees goes directly to charity. Past charitable recipients have included The Dana-Farber Cancer Foundation, Girls Who Code, and Mental Health America. Sponsorship of the awards event is independent of the judging and review process and does not impact the outcome of the results. View the complete list of 2025 winners here: https://searchengineland.com/search-engine-land-award-winners-2025-463795 SOURCE Amsive

PR Newswire
Jun 23rd, 2025
Amsive Expands Proven Search Capabilities with Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) to Navigate the AI Search Era

As part of this expansion, Amsive has partnered with Profound, a category-leading AI Visibility platform offering deep understanding into how large language models (LLMs) interpret and surface brand content.

PR Newswire
Jan 27th, 2025
Amsive Announces Leadership Succession: Michael Coppola Promoted To Ceo, Brad Moore Transitions To Advisory Role After Decade Of Transformative Leadership

NEW YORK and CHICAGO, Jan. 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Amsive, a leading performance marketing agency, announced today that Michael Coppola will succeed Brad Moore as Chief Executive Officer, effective February 1, 2025. Coppola, who has served as Amsive's President since 2021, brings extensive experience and a deep commitment to advancing the company's mission of delivering innovative, client-focused marketing solutions. Moore, who first joined as President in 2015 and has served as CEO since 2017, developed Amsive's vision and led its evolution for the past decade. He will transition into an advisory role, continuing to support the company's next phase of growth."Leading Amsive over the past ten years has been a great privilege," said Brad Moore. "We've built a special company and culture through transformative growth, and I'm incredibly proud of what we've achieved together as a team

TMCnet
Jan 27th, 2025
Amsive Announces Leadership Succession: Michael Coppola Promoted to CEO, Brad Moore Transitions to Advisory Role After Decade of Transformative Leadership

Amsive also earned multiple nominations for industry awards, including four US search awards and three search engine land awards, highlighting its bold, boundary-pushing strategies.

PR Newswire
Oct 23rd, 2024
Amsive Nominated for Three Categories in the 2024 Search Engine Land Awards Across AI and SEO

Performance marketing pioneers Amsive, recognized for excellence, secures Best Overall SEO for Small Business.