Associate Director, AIO

About DarkroomDarkroom is the leading next-generation growth marketing firm engineering the 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. At our core, Darkroom is 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. Every engagement feeds into our proprietary data infrastructure, enabling a continuous feedback loop that accelerates growth, improves margins, and compounds results across our client portfolio. What began as a boutique design studio has evolved into one of the fastest-growing private companies in America (Inc. 5000) and among the most effective performance media agencies of the 2020s (Varos). Our founders were recognized by Forbes 30 Under 30 for advancing the intersection of technology, marketing, and advertising, cementing Darkroom’s role as a defining player in the future of media innovation. About the RoleWe’re hiring an Associate Director, AIO to build and scale Darkroom’sAI search + organic search practicefor ecommerce brands. 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 DoBuild Darkroom’s AIO practice and define our methodology for AIO / GEO across ecommerce. Create scalable playbooks across technical SEO, information architecture, entity strategy, schema, internal linking, content refresh systems, and programmatic page expansion. Establish a testing cadence and measurement model for AI discovery, monitoring prompt coverage and downstream conversion impact. Own organic outcomes for ecommerce clients: lead audits, convert findings into prioritized roadmaps, and drive shipping fast. Partner with paid search, creative, and analytics teams to tie organic work directly to revenue outcomes and margin efficiency. Build rigorous reporting: leading indicators, lagging indicators, attribution constraints, and experiments to validate impact. Translate SEO / AIO strategy into clear technical requirements and content strategies that integrate into the client’s broader organization, build traffic, and drive ROI. Collaborate with the technical team and QA to protect indexing, templates, metadata, schema, internal linking, and performance. Drive changes across CMS, templates, navigation, faceting, product and category architecture, and content modules with engineering-grade precision. Run AI-native research, prompt analysis, and content deployment using AIO platforms to map prompt landscape, diagnose visibility gaps, and design interventions. Build AI-enabled workflows for briefing, content production, QA, refresh cycles, and internal link expansion—maintaining accuracy, uniqueness, and brand voice. You Should Apply If6–10+ years in SEO / organic growth with real strategic ownership. Meaningful experience with AIO / GEO adapting content, authority, and architecture to win in generative search environments. Deep ecommerce knowledge: PLPs, PDPs, category architecture, faceted navigation, UGC, and conversion pathways. Technical SEO end-to-end: crawling, indexation, canonicalization, schema, CWV, internal linking at scale, and migrations. Comfort running experiments, dealing with noisy SERP dynamics, and making sharp prioritization calls. Hands‑on familiarity with AIO tooling: Bluefish, AirOps, SEMrush, FERMAT. Bonus: ability to use BI tools to validate hypotheses and quantify impact. Working at DarkroomPerformance‑first. High autonomy, high accountability, low ceremony. Builder culture. We reward people who turn ambiguity into systems, shipped work, and measurable outcomes. AI‑native expectations. We use modern tooling to increase throughput and quality—without producing spam or fragile results. Real leverage. You’ll shape a new practice area while shipping through a productized delivery team designed to move quickly. EEO StatementDarkroom 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