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Senior SEO/CRO Strategist

Orbit Media Studios, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60290

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Who you are:

Orbit Media Studios is seeking a Senior SEO/CRO Strategist. Supported by a centralized process library, Strategists originate, collaborate, and communicate the vision when optimizing websites at Orbit. They’re versatile: constantly switching between technical and creative, ranking and converting.

Your role places you in collaboration with a “squad” of three others: Project Manager, Content Specialist (writer/editor), and Technical Specialist (developer/analyst). Squads work with up to six fantastic $50M+ brands. Together, we work with science, expertise, and integrity to help people run websites that compete at the highest levels. Strategists bring the passion for optimization that powers this dynamic.

The job:

Lead an overall SEO and CRO strategy for up to six great brands

Act as a trusted advisor, partner, and friend in these relationships

Execute, communicate, and help endlessly iterate our optimization process

Design creative content strategies to achieve specific SEO and CRO goals

Validate ideas using A/B testing tools such as GrowthBook and prove success through data

Quality control of your team’s activities, including specialists in content, code and analytics

Collaborate with other Strategists through a common, centralized process

Expect overlap with these common job titles: SEO Consultant, SEO Analyst, Digital Strategist, Content Strategist, CRO Consultant and Account Manager

The skills

5+ years experience with SEO and content marketing topics

Account-facing relationship management

Technical SEO: audits, site architecture, experiments, etc.

Creative SEO: keywords, content strategy, linkbait, etc.

Conversion Optimization: varied testing, analytics wizardry, etc.

Possess (or acquire) Google Analytics 4 certification

Organized, great at deadlines, and leading others to be the same

Communicate complex ideas simply and kindly

Write at a professional level that stays in alignment with the AP Style Guide

Mastery of tools like Google Workspace, Screaming Frog, Semrush and Google Tag Manager

Brownie points

Front-end web development experience (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript)

Experience with data scraping, spreadsheet wizardry or other productivity hacks

Samples of past campaign strategy, execution and outcomes

Compensation

15 PTO days and 1 VTO (volunteer time off) day

12 paid holidays, including a floating holiday and PTO from Xmas to New Years

Health, dental, & vision insurance

Simple IRA with 3% matched by Orbit

Paid parental leave

STD/LTD options

Identity Protection option

Budget for professional growth

Salary range: $80K - $95K

Who we are Orbit Media is an award-winning web design, development and optimization company based in the Ravenswood neighborhood of Chicago. But you can work from anywhere. This can be a remote position.

This role exists within "Optimization" at Orbit. Our unit focuses on improving websites after they've already been built: setting and actualizing a long‑term vision.

Since 2001, we’ve been designing and building beautiful, audience‑centric, optimized websites for a huge variety of clients in nearly every industry. We’re proud to be one of the first Illinois B Corps with deep roots in our community. We have fun and do great work. And we’d love for you to be a part of it.

Our commitment to an inclusive workplace Orbit Media provides equal employment opportunity to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

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