Job Title: GEO Strategist

Job Type: Full-Time

Compensation: $75,000 to $85,000 Annually + Bonus + Benefits

FLSA Status: Exempt

Division: GEO

Reports To: Director of GEO

Location: Remote-first company with physical offices in San Diego, CA, Colorado Springs, CO, and Columbus, OH

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Why You’ll Love Being an Interonaut 🚀(The Client)

When you join Intero Digital, you become part of a collaborative, creative, and growth-minded community of innovators, strategists, and creators working together to push the boundaries of what’s possible in digital marketing. As a full-service digital marketing agency with deep expertise across every major discipline, you won’t just be part of the digital landscape—you’ll help shape it.

The Mission (aka The Role)

GEO Strategists guide the strategic direction for SEO, owned media, earned media, and social media, ensuring every initiative ladders back to meaningful business outcomes. The role focuses on architecting brand entity research, focused entity research, and topic maps, leading strategic discussions, and translating performance insights into long-term visibility and growth opportunities.

This role owns the GEO strategy from onboarding through execution and review. GEO Strategists work alongside Account Managers and cross-service teams, elevating GEO as a business driver and ensuring work across departments connects into a cohesive, entity-driven visibility strategy.

The candidate may be based in any of the following US states: AL, AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, IN, KS, KY, MI, MN, MO, NC, NJ, NV, NY, OH, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, and WI.

Mission Objectives (Essential Functions)

Strategic Ownership and Execution

• Own the strategic direction of GEO engagements, ensuring all initiatives align to client business objectives and defined visibility outcomes across AI-driven search environments.
• Establish clear, entity-driven GEO roadmaps that set long-term direction and guide execution across SEO, owned media, earned media, and social media.
• Translate client KPIs, performance signals, and entity research into strategies that strengthen brand recognition, retrievability, and sustained visibility.
• Lead GEO strategy and planning across client engagements, partnering with Account Managers and cross-service teams to ensure cohesive execution.
• Drive GEO contributions to quarterly business reviews through performance analysis, strategic insights, and forward-looking recommendations.
• Provide strategic guidance that informs prioritization, content direction, and cross-channel alignment.

Communication and Collaboration

• Partner with Account Managers and cross-service teams to deliver unified, entity-driven strategies across SEO, content, PR, and social.
• Translate complex research and performance insights into clear, actionable direction for execution teams.
• Contribute strategic narratives, insights, and recommendations to internal planning discussions and client-facing presentations.
• Elevate client conversations beyond executional updates by positioning GEO as a driver of long-term visibility and brand authority.

Entity and Visibility Research

• Lead brand entity discovery, analysis, prioritization, and refinement to define what a brand should be known for in AI-driven search environments.
• Research strategic themes, concepts, category gaps, and competitive entity landscapes to identify visibility opportunities.
• Evaluate entity presence, recognition, and accessibility across platforms such as Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Reddit, Quora, Wikidata, and similar environments.
• Identify the knowledge sources, entity associations, and retrievability pathways that influence AI-driven visibility across structured and unstructured environments.

Pattern Recognition and Competitive Intelligence

• Conduct competitor entity mapping and comparative visibility analysis to inform strategic positioning.
• Analyze content performance data to identify search behavior patterns, FAQ opportunities, and LLM response trends.
• Monitor platform shifts and emerging AI search behaviors, surfacing insights that inform GEO strategy and execution.

Your Space Suit Specs (Requirements and Qualifications)

• Collaborative spirit and ability to thrive in an autonomous, remote-first environment.
• Curiosity and a drive to innovate.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Creative problem-solving and adaptability in a fast-changing environment.
• Strong project management and organization skills.
• Strong understanding of digital channels.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience in an SEO role, with demonstrated ownership of initiatives from planning through execution.
• Exceptional written communication and editorial standards.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage complex workloads independently.
• Comfortable collaborating cross-functionally while owning work independently.
• Ability to manage a full-time workload in a remote-first environment.
• Formal education not required—skills, integrity, and initiative matter most.

Bonus Program

In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for Intero Digital's quarterly Growth Bonus Program. The program is designed to reward team members who contribute directly to company growth.

Bonuses are funded each quarter once company performance surpasses a defined baseline. If targets are met, earnings could range between $1,000 and $5,000.

Company Sponsored Benefits (Your Interonaut Toolkit)

At Intero Digital, we believe in taking care of our crew. From stellar healthcare to interstellar growth opportunities, we’ve got you covered! Think of the following benefits as your toolkit for living your best work-life.

Time Off and Leave

• 1-Week Winter Break
• 13 Paid Holidays
• Flexible PTO
• Paid Sick Leave
• Paid Parental Leave + Return-to-Work Program
• Paid Jury Duty and Bereavement Leave

Health and Financial Benefits

• 100% Employer-Covered Medical Insurance
• 100% Employer-Covered Long-Term Disability
• 100% Employer-Covered Life Insurance
• 401(k) Matching after 1 Year
• Dental and Vision Insurance
• Short-Term Disability
• Hospital Indemnity and Critical Illness
• Voluntary Life and AD and D
• Legal Insurance
• Pet Insurance

Growth and Exploration Benefits

• Annual learning and development opportunities.
• Monthly all-hands team meetings.
• Employee resource groups for collaboration and connection.

Community Orbit

If you join our team, you’ll be more than just an employee—you’ll be an Interonaut!

Interonaut (noun) | in·te·ro·naut

A courageous explorer of digital frontiers—someone who leads with integrity, thrives under cosmic pressure and delivers the extraordinary; someone who boldly goes where no marketer has gone before, turning challenges into constellations of opportunity and lighting the path for others to follow.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Intero Digital provides equal employment opportunities to all teammates and applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, military status, or any other protected characteristic.

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