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Principal Associate, SEO/GEO Marketing Strategist

Capital One Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$120,800 - $137,900 per year

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Description

We are seeking a highly skilled Principal Associate, SEO/GEO Marketing Strategist to join our Consumer Bank Marketing team at Capital One. As a leader in the field, you will play a critical role in developing and executing comprehensive organic visibility strategies that bridge traditional search engine optimization (SEO) with emerging generative engine optimization (GEO).

Key Responsibilities:

  • Manage digital marketing agency partnerships, ensuring effective communication and strategy execution
  • Develop and implement holistic organic visibility strategies, maximizing brand presence across search engines and AI chat interfaces
  • Conduct advanced keyword, entity, and conversational query research to inform content roadmaps
  • Translate technical site audits into actionable briefs for Site Ops/Content teams, ensuring optimal crawlability, indexability, and schema markup implementation
  • Drive initiatives to establish and amplify brand E-E-A-T (Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness)
  • Regularly audit existing content libraries to identify performance decay and optimize legacy pages
  • Translate complex data into actionable strategic pivots, utilizing performance analysis reports and monitoring tools
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure SEO/GEO best practices and architectural considerations are integrated into digital initiatives
  • Stay up-to-date with search engine algorithm updates, AI search rollouts, and changing LLM behaviors

A great candidate will:

  • Be able to translate complex data into clear narratives, tailoring messages to diverse audiences
  • Anticipate external and internal needs, designing solutions that elevate the end-user experience
  • Build trust and consensus across partner teams, utilizing subject matter expertise and data
  • Thrive in ambiguous environments, connecting dots across the organization to frame problems and devise solutions
  • Successfully navigate a matrixed organization, making decisions and delivering work
  • Balance near-term execution with long-term strategy, demonstrating integrative thinking

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree or military experience
  • At least 4 years of digital marketing experience
  • At least 4 years of experience using G-Suite
  • At least 4 years of experience with Google Analytics and Google Marketing Platform products

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience in agile marketing principles
  • 5+ years of digital marketing experience
  • Experience working with Google Search Console, Data Studio, STAT, or SEMRush

This role is designated as a hybrid position, requiring adherence to Capital One's hybrid policy regarding required on-site presence.

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are:

McLean, VA: $120,800 - $137,900 Wilmington, DE: $109,900 - $125,400

This role is also eligible to earn performance-based incentive compensation.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial, and other benefits that support your total well-being.

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • agile marketing
  • Google Search Console
  • Data Studio
  • STAT
  • SEMRush
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