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SEO Manager

🔥 Posted 57 days ago
Chicago, IL On-site Full-time North America
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About this role

iCrossing is a long-established SEO and digital marketing agency, so this is agency-side work across client accounts rather than one in-house brand.

AI Replacement Risk

MED

Full job description

Sourced directly from iCrossing's original listing.

About Us

JOB DESCRIPTION

iCrossing is a Hearst-backed marketing and technology partner built for how brands grow today. As outcomes architects, we bring together strategy, media, experience, engineering, data, and AI to build connected digital systems that improve performance, strengthen customer experiences, and support measurable business growth.

Our work is grounded in data-backed strategy, modern digital visibility, and connected execution. We help brands perform now while transforming for what’s next, designing the platforms, content, media, and operating models that help them move faster, learn smarter, and scale what works.

At iCrossing, you’ll work with teams across marketing, technology, and experience to solve complex client challenges with strategic breadth and executional depth. As part of Hearst, we combine agency agility with access to powerful data, insights, audiences, content, and technology capabilities.

Your Impact

The Manager provides day-to-day SEO leadership for advanced/large clients, broadens overall engagements with cross-channel knowledge, and can lead more junior owned media personnel on enterprise-level clients. The Manager participates in new business pitches and helps shape the company’s SEO product offering. This is a full-time role and requires 2 days per week in the office.

What You’ll Do

  • Responsible for client owned media strategy
  • Primary point of contact to present strategies to clients
  • Leads owned media engagements for large size and complex clients
  • Facilitates upsell and cross sell opportunities with clients
  • Participates in new business pitches
  • Mentors junior team members in all owned media topics
  • Leads the creation of new practices and creation of deliverables based on industry trends
  • Attends and presents at industry conferences and events
  • Creates client success case studies
  • Creates industry POVs
  • Earns high overall client satisfaction scores

Who You Are

  • Minimum 4 years’ experience working in SEO
  • Advanced knowledge of common industry tools & platforms
  • Expert proficiency with Microsoft Office (especially Excel & PowerPoint)
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Clear and concise communication style
  • Strong mathematical, analytical and writing skills
  • Must be able to compare data and analyze tactics to maximize results
  • Fundamental understanding of HTML
  • Experience with CSS, JavaScript and web design technologies is a plus

The estimated salary range for this position in Chicago is between $77,000 and $90,000. For NewYork City, the estimated salary range for this position is between $85,000 and $100,000. The range for the position in other geographies may vary based on market differences. The actual compensation will be determined based on experience and other factors permitted by law.

We also offer a competitive benefits package that includes:

  • Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • Flexible Spending & Health Savings Account
  • Paid holidays, vacation, and sick time
  • Parental Leave
  • Employee assistance program and other company benefits

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AI Replacement Risk, explained

We rate every role on how much of the day-to-day work could plausibly be done by current AI tools within the next year or two. It's a judgment call, not a hard science, based on three questions:

Task repeatability — is the work mostly repeatable execution (drafting, formatting, routine audits), or judgment-heavy (strategy, negotiation, prioritization)?
Precedent — are AI tools already doing a meaningful chunk of this work well today, in production, somewhere?
Accountability — does the role carry a decision or relationship someone has to own, not just an output that has to exist?

LOW

Mostly judgment, negotiation, or ownership work. AI assists, it doesn't replace.

MED

A real mix of judgment and repeatable execution. Expect the repeatable half to keep shrinking.

HIGH

Mostly production or output work, with real AI precedent already in the wild.

This is our own read, not a scientific index. Treat it as a conversation starter before you apply, not a scorecard.