Senior Manager, Organic Growth & Discovery
Job description
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Manager, Organic Growth & Discovery based in United Kingdom.
This role will lead strategies designed to grow audiences through SEO, AEO, GEO, content optimization, and emerging discovery channels.
You’ll identify high-value growth opportunities by combining search behavior, competitive intelligence, audience insights, and content-performance data.
Your work will help content perform effectively across traditional search engines, AI-powered search, and evolving discovery platforms.
You’ll partner closely with Editorial, Product, Technology, Analytics, and Revenue teams to turn insights into measurable growth initiatives.
A key focus will be developing scalable approaches to content optimization, lifecycle management, internal linking, structured information, and digital experiences.
You’ll also help establish a disciplined measurement framework connecting organic visibility and engagement to broader business outcomes.
This is a strategic and highly collaborative opportunity for an experienced organic-growth leader who thrives in a rapidly changing discovery landscape.
Accountabilities
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Develop and execute SEO, AEO, and GEO strategies across a diverse portfolio of digital content and experiences.
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Identify high-value audience opportunities using search behavior, competitive intelligence, content-performance data, and emerging discovery trends.
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Translate organic-growth opportunities into actionable recommendations for new content, content updates, structured information, and digital experiences.
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Recommend and help prioritize content investments based on audience potential, business value, competitive opportunity, and expected impact.
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Monitor changes in search engines, AI-powered search, and emerging discovery platforms and recommend appropriate strategic responses.
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Build systematic approaches to content optimization, updating, expansion, consolidation, and lifecycle management.
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Partner with Editorial teams to improve content performance while maintaining quality, credibility, and usefulness.
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Develop briefs, standards, tools, and templates that make organic-growth practices easier to adopt consistently at scale.
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Identify underperforming and high-potential content and recommend appropriate optimization, consolidation, or expansion strategies.
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Support experimentation with content formats, page structures, internal linking, recirculation, and other organic-growth tactics.
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Partner with Product and Technology teams to strengthen the technical foundations supporting organic and AI-driven discovery.
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Identify opportunities to use structured data, taxonomy, metadata, and modular content to improve machine readability and discoverability.
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Evaluate emerging technologies and tools related to SEO, AEO, GEO, competitive intelligence, and content optimization.
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Establish and monitor KPIs covering organic visibility, traffic, engagement, and content performance.
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Work with Analytics to connect discovery performance with repeat usage, known-user acquisition, revenue, and other business outcomes.
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Develop clear performance insights, testing plans, and strategic recommendations for Editorial and business leaders.
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Build scalable processes and operating rhythms for identifying, prioritizing, testing, and executing organic-growth opportunities.
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7+ years of experience in SEO, content strategy, audience development, digital publishing, or a related discipline.
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Demonstrated experience growing audiences through organic search, content optimization, and effective discovery strategies.
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Strong knowledge of technical SEO, content SEO, AEO, GEO, structured data, and emerging AI-driven discovery.
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Experience using analytics, competitive intelligence, keyword research, search behavior, and content-performance data to identify and prioritize opportunities.
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Ability to translate complex data and rapidly changing discovery trends into clear, practical recommendations for content and product teams.
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Experience developing scalable optimization processes, standards, tools, templates, or operating frameworks.
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Strong understanding of content performance, lifecycle management, discoverability, and audience engagement.
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Experience partnering cross-functionally with Editorial, Product, Technology, Analytics, and Revenue teams.
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Strong communication, prioritization, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
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Ability to operate strategically while remaining comfortable working hands-on with data, content, and optimization initiatives.
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Experience in healthcare, regulated content, or another high-trust information environment is preferred.
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Fully remote working opportunity.
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Opportunity to lead organic audience-growth strategy across SEO, AEO, GEO, and emerging discovery channels.
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High-impact role at the intersection of content, technology, audience development, analytics, and digital product.
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Opportunity to shape how content performs across traditional search engines and AI-powered discovery experiences.
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Close collaboration with Editorial, Product, Technology, Analytics, and Revenue teams.
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Ability to influence content investment decisions and broader audience-development initiatives.
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Opportunity to build scalable organic-growth processes, tools, standards, and measurement frameworks.
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Exposure to rapidly evolving search and AI discovery technologies and the opportunity to shape strategies around them.
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Role with measurable impact on audience growth, content performance, engagement, and business outcomes.
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