Full-Time

Director of Organic Growth & AI Visibility

Golden Hippo

Golden Hippo

51-200 employees

Direct-to-consumer health, beauty, pet care marketer

Compensation Overview

$154k - $185k/yr

+ Bonus

Canoga Park, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Hybrid

Category
Growth & Marketing (1)
Required Skills
SEO

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Requirements
  • 10+ years in SEO, content, communications, or organic growth roles.
  • Minimum 5 years managing teams or leading cross-functional initiatives.
  • Experience integrating SEO, PR, and social programs.
Responsibilities
  • Lead all organic visibility and earned media functions for the Golden Hippo wellness portfolio brands, including SEO, AI/Answer Engine visibility, content strategy, public relations, and organic social.
  • Architect and lead the centralized organic growth roadmap for the Golden Hippo brand portfolio and define cross-channel operating models that bridge the gap between high-authority brand storytelling and technical performance.
  • Align Brand, Creative, Product Marketing, Performance, and Data teams around shared processes and KPIs.
  • Drive the evolution from traditional SEO to Entity-Based Optimization, ensuring experts and brands are recognized as primary authorities in Google’s Knowledge Graph.
  • Build Golden Hippo’s roadmap for visibility across AI-driven interfaces such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google Search Generative Experience.
  • Implement advanced structured data and schema strategies to maximize machine readability and dominate featured snippets and AI-generated answers.
  • Identify, audit and deploy AI tools to modernize the content lifecycle across editorial, multimedia, and modular formats.
  • Develop automated workflows to transform long-form content into high-performing assets.
  • Own governance, accuracy, and brand alignment across organic content.
  • Serve as the high-level strategist for the existing YouTube teams, aligning their content roadmaps with broader brand growth goals and SEO initiatives.
  • Bridge the gap between YouTube and other organic channels, ensuring hero video content is repurposed into high-authority SEO articles and PR assets.
  • Support the team in maximizing Video SEO and Short-to-Long funnel strategies to increase channel authority and reach.
  • Define unified metrics that track how video content contributes to the total Halo Effect of brand search and organic revenue.
  • Partner with the PR team to synchronize media outreach with SEO Entity strategies, ensuring all earned coverage builds founder’s E-E-A-T (Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness).
  • Implement AI-backed sentiment and attribution tools to move reporting from simple impressions to measurable brand-authority impact.
  • Sync Social platform strategies with the broader organic content cycle, ensuring a unified brand voice across all discovery interfaces.
  • Develop AI workflows for trend discovery and creative scaling to 10x engagement and in-app search visibility (TikTok/IG SEO) without increasing manual overhead.
  • Define and track unified KPIs that prove the value of organic, focusing on share of voice, sentiment, and organic-to-conversion attribution.
  • Build cross-channel dashboards that visualize the Halo Effect of initiatives and programs on direct search volume and overall brand health.
  • Lead testing and optimization across organic touchpoints.
Desired Qualifications
  • Deep technical fluency in AI LLMs (GPT-4, Claude, etc.) and their application in content marketing.
  • Knowledge of AI search/answer engines and emerging visibility platforms (preferred)
  • Experience with data-driven PR or entity/structured data strategy (preferred)
  • Proficiency in SEO, social, analytics, and public relations tools (GA4, Google Search Console, Ahrefs, Meltwater, Brandwatch, Sprout) (preferred)

Golden Hippo creates and markets health, wellness, beauty, and pet care brands directly to consumers online. Its products are sold via direct-to-consumer platforms, bypassing traditional retail to build closer relationships with customers. The company emphasizes testing new ideas and technologies, flexible work arrangements, and employee growth to continuously improve its offerings. With over 1,400 employees, Golden Hippo operates as an employee-owned business through an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), linking staff success to the company’s performance. The main goal is to help people and their pets live healthier, happier lives by offering high-quality products and educational resources, while growing a profitable, customer-focused business.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Debt Financing

Total Funding

$354M

Headquarters

Salt Lake City, Utah

Founded

2011

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Pet care brands offer growth as wellness spending outpaces human categories.
  • Vertical integration in Memphis and Chatsworth cuts logistics costs amid inflation.
  • ESOP structure lowers turnover in product development versus competitors.

What critics are saying

  • FTC enforces claims scrutiny, imposing $100M+ settlements in 12-24 months.
  • AmazonBasics and Great Value cannibalize sales at 40-60% lower prices.
  • China's Q2 2025 export restrictions raise supplement costs 25-35%.

What makes Golden Hippo unique

  • Golden Hippo incubates 1-2 new brands annually for repeatable innovation.
  • Doctor-formulated products provide clinical credibility and premium pricing.
  • In-house content marketing builds proprietary audience data efficiently.

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Benefits

Flexible work arrangements

Employee stock ownership plan

Global charity impact

Generous matching 401k plan

Room for growth & results-based pay increases

Recognition programs

Company events

Free on-site gym & fully-stocked kitchen

Company News

PR Newswire
Mar 20th, 2024
Golden Hippo, And Its Sister Companies; Golden Customer Care, Golden Bolt, And Golden Pet Manufacturing Win The 2024 Usa Today Top Workplaces Award

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., March 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Golden Hippo —the leading direct-to-consumer creator and marketer of over 20 brands, including health, beauty, and pet care—and its sister companies, Golden Customer Care , Golden Bolt , and Golden Pet Manufacturing celebrate winning the 2024 USA TODAY Top Workplaces USA award. Awarded by Energage—a purpose-driven organization that develops solutions to build and brand Top Workplaces—and in partnership with USA TODAY, the Top Workplaces award is based on surveying more than 20 million employees to recognize the leading organizations across 60 markets.Golden Hippo—the leading direct-to-consumer creator and marketer of over 20 brands, including health, beauty, and pet care—and its sister companies, Golden Customer Care, Golden Bolt, and Golden Pet Manufacturing celebrate winning the 2024 USA TODAY Top Workplaces USA award.The Top Workplaces award is based on Energage's confidential, research-backed, employee engagement survey. Participating companies are evaluated against the industry's most robust standards. Results are calculated by comparing the survey's research-based statements, including 15 Culture Drivers that are proven to predict high performance against industry benchmarks.In addition to USA TODAY Top Workplaces, Golden Hippo has been recognized for its outstanding work culture with over 35 awards in less than five years. Golden Hippo, Golden Customer Care, and Golden Bolt's award-winning culture and benefits are designed to create and foster an inclusive and innovative team.Golden Hippo Employee Reviews"Continuing to grow my career here is a no-brainer for me. The people are what makes this place special - everyone's incredibly talented, knowledgeable, and supportive, making it a fantastic environment to grow