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 optimise and revise strategies over the lifetime of the client while adhering to Directive best practices
- Strategists will work closely with their Associate Director (AsD) when roadblocks arise that impact their strategy and goal attainment. Strategists display a strong ability to craft creative briefs and compelling content campaigns with a focus on ideation based on competitor and audience insights. Best practices should be used to inform our strategies to ensure our clients are in the best position to exceed their goals. In particular: LTV:CAC modeling Customer Generation Share of SERP Content Production 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. Data sources include Google Analytics, CRM data, SEMRush reporting, and Ahrefs reporting All Goals must be approved by the Associate Director (AsD) before the Strategist can present it to their client alongside their Associate Director (AsD)
- 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. Use of the project management tool Asana is required. This includes delegating tasks to other team members, such as Specialists, as well as our clients and then ensuring that these tasks are completed in a timely manner. In pods where Project Managers are present, Strategists will ensure they partner with Project Managers to ensure all tasks are created, assigned and due dates are met and communicated to the client
- Strategists will work closely with content writers and designers to complete content campaigns for clients on time while also being responsible for ensuring that the quality is up to client standards. 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. Additionally Strategists are expected to proactively communicate to clients and internal leadership on a regular basis to ensure we are driving the best results for clients. When proactively communicating with clients we want to ensure we communicate timeline expectations for deliverables, goal attainment progress, and actively use our shared communication channels, such as Slack, to communicate between bi-weekly meetings. This includes sending deliverables on a regular cadence instead of only during bi-weekly meetings When proactively communicating with internal leadership this should include communicating any roadblocks, opportunities for account growth, and any moments of change on clients accounts. Moments of change can look like a needed change in strategy, internal client marketing changes, point of contact changes, and more
- 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: Bi-weekly meetings with the client Note in these meetings strategists are expected to report on NSM progress and ongoing deliverables Monthly reports Quarterly reports 2 Bi-Annual business review presentation
Requirements
- Proven track record of success around implementing SEO principles and content strategy: keyword research, on-page optimisation, 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
Benefits
- Set living wage
- Bonus eligible
- Access to certified therapists through Spring Health, Headspace & Wellhub
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid Company Holidays
- Your Birthday Off
- End of Year Recharge (Closed December 24 - January 1)
- Pension, through Royal London. 5% employee and 4% employer contributions
- Annual bonus based on tenure, which scales in total amount over time
- Annual Anniversary Trip with peers and executive leadership for fun and entertainment
Additional Information
- Must have established and current work authorization and permanently reside in that country
- Must be able to remain stationary for extended periods, must be able to observe and interpret written and/or verbal communication, must have reliable internet access, and a professional background
- To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions. If you require reasonable accommodations in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, direct your inquiries to careers@directiveconsulting.com
