Digital Strategist

We’re looking for a passionate Digital Strategist to add to our tight-knit team.

Who we are

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

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.

Who you are

Orbit Media Studios is seeking a seasoned Digital Strategist to originate and communicate a strategic vision for SEO and CRO on up to six fantastic household brands.

Your role places you in collaboration with a “squad” of three others: Project Manager, Content Specialist (writer/editor), and Technical Specialist (developer/analyst). Together, we work with science, expertise, and integrity to help people run websites that compete at the highest levels.

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 tools such as Google Optimize and prove success through data
• Quality control of your team’s activities, including specialists in content, code, and analytics
• Collaborate with a small number of other teams on strategy through a centralized process
• Expect overlap with these common job titles: SEO Consultant, SEO Analyst, Digital Strategist, Content Strategist, Content Manager, 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 GSuite, 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

Benefits

• 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

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.

Interested? Here’s what we need from you

• Resume
• Start date availability

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