About Client:

We are a leading Digital Experience Software and Services company dedicated to providing comprehensive solutions across all touch points that enhance customer engagement and drive business growth. We are on a mission to pioneer the distribution and visibility of content with an innovative platform that drives discovery, personalized experiences, and conversions powered by data and AI. We pride ourselves on our collaborative culture and commitment to excellence in everything we do, and we are certified as a Great Place to Work.

About Role:

We are looking for a highly strategic and execution-focused Director Search to lead enterprise-scale search visibility initiatives across organic, local, technical, and AI-driven search ecosystems, based out of our Bangalore, India office. This role sits at the intersection of Technical SEO, On-Page SEO, Local SEO, Structured Data & Schema Engineering, Entity Optimization, GEO (Generative Engine Optimization), and AI-powered automation.

You will partner closely with Product, Engineering, Content, UX, Analytics, Local Listings, and Marketing teams to drive scalable organic growth across all search channels traditional, local, and AI-generated. This is a Director level leadership role with P&L awareness, significant cross-functional influence, and full ownership of the Search strategy and product vision spanning Technical SEO, Local SEO, GEO, and Schema.

Key challenges this role will address:

- How do enterprise brands remain visible and authoritative across traditional search, local search, and an AI-first world where answers are generated, not just linked?

- How do we build a scalable schema, entity intelligence, & local SEO layer that enables search engines and AI systems to deeply understand and surface our clients digital properties across all discovery surfaces?

- How do we unify Technical SEO, Local SEO, and GEO into a cohesive search strategy that scales across complex, multi-location enterprise clients?

- How do we leverage AI tools, automation, and data workflows to surface insights faster, reduce manual effort, and operate at greater scale across large search programs?

Key Responsibilities:

- Lead enterprise Technical SEO initiatives across large-scale websites and digital platforms for clients.

- Drive improvements in crawlability, rendering, indexing, Core Web Vitals, internal linking, site architecture, and page discoverability.

- Partner with Engineering and Product teams to operationalize SEO requirements into scalable platform capabilities.

- Build and maintain SEO governance frameworks, QA processes, and technical standards.

- Optimize XML sitemaps, robots directives, canonicalization, pagination, hreflang, faceted navigation, and JavaScript rendering.

- Own the enterprise schema and structured data strategy across all client digital properties.

- Own the Local SEO strategy across enterprise multi-location clients.

- Define and execute strategies for GEO (Generative Engine Optimization).

- Deeply analyze GSC, GA4, BigQuery, log files, crawl data, and enterprise SEO datasets to identify growth opportunities.

- Lead and mentor a team of Search specialists based in Bangalore.

Qualifications:

- Bachelors or Masters degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Communications, or a related field.

- 10+ years of relevant SEO experience with at least 3-4 years in a Director or senior leadership capacity.

- Prior experience in a digital marketing agency, SaaS company, or MarTech environment preferred.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

- Hands-on expertise with Google Search Console, GA4, Screaming Frog, BigQuery, Looker Studio, Ahrefs / Semrush / enterprise SEO platforms, and Jupyter Notebook / Colab.

- Deep expertise in Local SEO, Knowledge Graph, and AI-powered automation workflows.

- Business acumen with the ability to connect SEO and content performance to revenue impact, client retention, and business growth outcomes.