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About the Role

We are hiring an SEO Director to lead ambitious search programmes for global brands, maximizing visibility and driving growth. This leadership role involves shaping strategic direction, building client partnerships, and guiding teams in delivering outstanding SEO and AI-driven search solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategic direction and performance of major SEO accounts, ensuring work delivers against client objectives, commercial goals, and agreed KPIs.
• Develop and oversee SEO, AI Search, GEO, and AEO strategies that strengthen visibility, authority, and discoverability across evolving search experiences.
• Build strong client relationships as a senior strategic advisor, providing guidance, identifying opportunities, and supporting long-term growth.
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of SEO professionals, creating an environment where people can grow, collaborate, and deliver their best work.
• Drive innovation by identifying new opportunities across AI, automation, integrated search, and emerging technologies that improve client outcomes.
• Partner with teams across Content, PR, Social, Commerce, Analytics, PPC, and Client Services to deliver connected, insight-led search programmes.
• Support business development activities by contributing strategic expertise to pitches, proposals, and client growth opportunities.

Requirements

• Significant experience developing and leading SEO strategies for large brands, ideally within an agency or consultancy environment.
• Deep expertise across technical SEO, content strategy, search performance analysis, and the evolving AI-powered search landscape.
• Strong leadership and people management skills, with experience coaching, mentoring, and supporting team development.
• Proven ability to build trusted client relationships and communicate complex ideas clearly to a range of stakeholders.
• Commercial awareness with experience identifying growth opportunities, developing business cases, and contributing to revenue growth.
• A collaborative and strategic approach, with the ability to balance long-term vision and day-to-day delivery.
• Curiosity, adaptability, and a commitment to continuous learning in a rapidly evolving digital environment.

Skills

• SEO
• AI Search
• GEO
• AEO
• Technical SEO
• Content Strategy
• Search Performance Analysis
• AI-powered search landscape
• Leadership
• People Management
• Coaching
• Mentoring
• Client Relationship Management
• Communication
• Commercial Awareness
• Strategic Planning
• Collaboration
• Adaptability
• Continuous Learning

Work Type

• Office-based (4 days per week)

Experience Level

• Director

Benefits

• Pension
• Life Assurance
• Private Medical cover
• Reflection Days
• Shared Parental Leave
• Inclusive Benefits
• Employee Action Groups

About the Company

• At Digitas, we harness the power of connection to make positive impact everyday.
• We have a relentless focus on creating connections to help our clients’ businesses grow, connecting diverse people, ideas and expertise in innovative and exciting ways.
• We are making positive impact with our amazing clients, through our capabilities in Consulting, Products & Platforms, Customer Engagement and Digital Media.
• Part of Publicis Groupe, and a Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Global Marketing Agencies, we’re proud to work with some of the world’s leading brands.
• Digitas. Experience the power of connection.

Equal Opportunity

• Digitas is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation or gender identity.
• We are committed to providing a fair, accessible, and inclusive recruitment process. If you have any access needs - for example, related to disability, neurodivergence, or a health condition - please let us know. We’ll work with you to ensure the process works for you. Sharing this information will never impact your application.
• Guided by our values, we listen with empathy, uplift each other, take responsibility, and embrace change - building a culture where everyone feels seen, respected, and genuinely included.