Associate Director, AIO

Associate Director, AIO (AI + Organic Search) Join to apply for the Associate Director, AIO (AI + Organic Search) role at Darkroom 2 days ago - Be among the first 25 applicants. About Darkroom Darkroom is the leading next‑generation growth marketing firm engineering the brands of tomorrow. Founded in 2017, we set out to redefine what a modern agency could be, by replacing the inertia of legacy advertising behemoths with a model built for speed, intelligence, and measurable impact. We are a human services company powered by Matter, a universal AI commerce layer that integrates executive‑level strategy with proprietary agentic technology. This fusion enables our teams to deliver outsized returns by enhancing creative output, operational efficiency, and revenue generation across every stage of the customer journey. Our track record speaks for itself: billions in attributable revenue driven across e‑commerce marketplaces, media networks, DTC ecosystems, and social commerce platforms. All engagements feed into our proprietary data infrastructure, enabling a continuous feedback loop that accelerates growth, improves margins, and compounds results across our client portfolio. We have evolved into one of the fastest‑growing private companies in America (Inc. 5000) and among the most effective performance media agencies of the 2020s. About the Role We’re hiring an Associate Director, AIO to build and scale Darkroom’s AI search + organic search practice for e‑commerce brands. This role sits at the intersection of technical SEO, content systems, and AI‑era discovery (AIO/GEO) – turning how people search today (and how LLMs answer) into durable, compounding organic growth strategies for e‑commerce businesses. This role sits on Darkroom’s Digital Products team and reports to the Director, Digital Products. You’ll work alongside developers, digital project managers, and QA specialists to ship high‑quality organic systems and site changes quickly – without the typical agency bottlenecks. Location: Offshore (Brazil, Portugal, Spain, or Mexico) Work style: Remote with Eastern Time (ET) working hours What You’ll Do Build Darkroom’s AIO practice by defining methodology, creating scalable playbooks, and establishing a testing cadence and measurement model for AI discovery. Own organic outcomes for e‑commerce clients: lead audits, convert findings into prioritized roadmaps, and drive shipping. Partner with paid search, creative, and analytics teams to ensure organic work ties directly to revenue outcomes and margin efficiency. Translate SEO/AIO strategy into clear technical requirements and content strategies that integrate into the client’s broader organization. Collaborate with the technical team and QA to ensure releases protect indexing, templates, metadata, schema, internal linking, and performance. Run AI‑native research, prompt analysis, and content deployment, ensuring accuracy, uniqueness, and brand voice. You Should Apply If 6–10+ years in SEO/organic growth with real strategic ownership. Experience with meaningful AIO/GEO work and adapting content, authority, and site architecture to generative search environments. Deep understanding of e‑commerce (PLPs/PDPs, category architecture, faceted navigation, reviews/UGC, conversion pathways). Hands‑on technical SEO skills: crawling/indexation, canonicalization, schema, CWV, internal linking at scale, migrations. Comfort with experiments, SERP dynamics, and prioritization. Familiarity with AIO tooling (Profound, Bluefish, AirOps, SEMrush, FERMAT). Bonus: BI tools for hypothesis validation and impact quantification. Working at Darkroom Performance‑first: high autonomy, high accountability, low ceremony. Builder culture: reward people who transform ambiguity into systems and measurable outcomes. AI‑native expectations: modern tooling to increase throughput and quality without producing spam or fragile results. Real leverage: shape a new practice area while shipping through a productized delivery team designed to move quickly. EEO Statement Darkroom is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. #J-18808-Ljbffr