Director of Growth (SEO & Web)
Muck Rack · Chicago, IL · 1 mo ago
RemoteRemoteMarketing$150k–$180k/yrFull-time
Overview
Muck Rack is a leading SaaS platform for public relations and communications professionals. The Director of Growth (SEO & Web) will own and scale Muck Rack's organic acquisition and website as a primary growth engine.
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve Muck Rack’s organic growth strategy, including SEO, GEO and website performance
- Lead SEO & GEO including on-page optimization, technical SEO, site architecture and generative engine optimization
- Partner closely with our content team to develop and scale high impact, search driven content
- Identify and execute programmatic and highly scalable SEO and GEO opportunities to accelerate our growth
- Own website strategy for muckrack.com, including information architecture, user journeys across the funnel, and landing pages
- Establish a robust experimentation roadmap across SEO and web, balancing quick wins with long-term bets
- Drive conversion rate optimization (CRO) through experimentation, AB testing and continuous iteration
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering and Design to improve site performance and UX
- Define and track key growth metrics (traffic, rankings, conversion rate, pipeline, revenue contribution, etc)
- Build and lead a high-performing team over time as the function scales
Qualifications
- 7–10+ years of experience in SEO, growth, or digital strategy roles, ideally in SaaS
- Proven track record of scaling organic traffic and driving meaningful business outcomes
- Deep expertise in technical SEO, content strategy, and website optimization
- Strong understanding of how websites function as growth products (UX, CRO, information architecture)
- Experience partnering cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and Content teams
- Highly analytical, with the ability to translate data into insights and action
- Comfortable operating both strategically and hands-on in a fast-moving environment
- Experience with experimentation frameworks and A/B testing tools
- Familiarity with modern SEO & GEO tooling (e.g., GSC, Ahrefs, Screaming Frog, Profound, AirOps etc.)
- Proactively incorporate AI tools into day to day work to improve productivity and accelerate delivery