Director, SEO

About The Role:

Global Marketing is seeking an experienced and highly analytical Director SEO & AEO to lead the execution performance and continued evolution of Gartners search strategy.

This role owns end-to-end SEO performance across Gartners digital ecosystem leading a team of SEO associates focused on execution while setting strategy scaling analytics and driving measurable business impact. The Director will also establish and advance Gartners Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) capabilities ensuring visibility across both traditional search engines and emerging AI-driven discovery platforms.

This is a leadership role requiring strong operational rigor technical depth and the ability to connect SEO/AEO performance to enterprise business outcomes and executive priorities.

What You Will Do:

Lead Team Execution & Stakeholder Engagement

• Lead coach and scale a high-performing team of SEO/AEO associates responsible for day-to-day execution

• Set priorities and oversee delivery of SEO/AEO initiatives across on-page technical and off-page workstreams in partnership with Global Marketing and key stakeholders

• Influence product IT and content roadmaps to prioritize SEO/AEO impact and drive enterprise adoption while serving as a senior subject matter expert advising stakeholders across the organization

• Develop and deliver executive-level presentations on performance insights and strategic direction while translating complex concepts into clear recommendations

Own SEO & AEO Strategy

• Define and lead Gartners SEO/AEO strategy aligned to business priorities and ownership of acquisition pipeline and business growth

• Lead the adoption and scaling of AEO best practices and frameworks optimizing for AI-driven discovery and evolving search behaviors

• Identify and prioritize opportunities to increase search visibility traffic quality and conversion efficiency by strengthening Gartners topical authority and recognition

• Build and scale SEO/AEO processes frameworks and governance across the enterprise

• Lead complex cross-functional SEO/AEO initiatives including site architecture improvements migrations and platform changes

Drive Analytics Reporting & Insights

• Own SEO measurement strategy including reporting dashboards performance tracking technology stack and adoption of new tools or automations

• Partner with analytics to ensure data accuracy integrity and scalability of measurement and translate data into actionable insights

• Establish measurement frameworks for SEO and AEO including emerging AI visibility metrics and deliver regular reporting on performance

• Drive a test-and-learn culture implementing experimentation frameworks to validate and scale new SEO and AEO tactics

What You Will Need:

• 10 years of SEO experience with ownership of strategy execution and performance in enterprise environments

• 5 years of experience leading and developing high-performing SEO or digital marketing teams

• Proven success driving measurable organic growth tied to business outcomes (e.g. traffic conversion pipeline revenue)

• Deep expertise in technical SEO search algorithms and modern SERP and AI-driven search features

• Experience with AEO/GEO concepts including optimizing for AI-generated answers conversational search and entity-based discovery

• Advanced analytical capabilities with experience building measurement frameworks and delivering executive-level insights

• Proficiency with SEO and analytics platforms (e.g. BrightEdge Ahrefs STAT Google Search Console GA4)

• Familiarity with HTML/CSS and technical SEO fundamentals including site architecture and structured data

• Strong leadership communication and influencing skills with the ability to drive alignment across senior stakeholders

What You Will Get:

• Competitive salary generous paid time off policy charity match program Medical Dental & Vision Plans Parental Leave Employee Assistance Program (EAP) 401K matching and more!

• Collaborative team-oriented culture that embraces diversity

• Professional development and unlimited growth opportunities

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Who are we

At Gartner Inc. (NYSE:IT) we guide the leaders who shape the world.

Our mission relies on expert analysis and bold ideas to deliver actionable objective business and technology insights helping enterprise leaders and their teams succeed with their mission-critical priorities.

Since our founding in 1979 weve grown to 20000 associates globally who support over 13000 client enterprises in 90 countries and territories. We do important interesting and substantive work that matters. Thats why we hire associates with the intellectual curiosity energy and drive to want to make a difference. The bar is unapologetically high. So is the impact you can have here.

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Our vast virtually untapped market potential offers limitless opportunities opportunities that may not even exist right now for you to grow professionally and flourish personally. How far you go is driven by your passion and performance.

We hire remarkable people who collaborate and win as a team. Together our singular unifying goal is to deliver results for our clients.

Our teams are inclusive and composed of individuals from different geographies cultures religions ethnicities races genders sexual orientations abilities and generations.

We invest in great leaders who bring out the best in you and the company enabling us to multiply our impact and results. This is why year after year we are recognized worldwide as a great place to work.

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Its an exciting time to be at Gartner with limitless opportunities to make a real impact grow your skills and build a lasting meaningful career in a field thats reshaping the way we operate. If youre passionate about AI and want to be part of a team thats guiding the leaders who shape the world Gartner is the place for you.

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Gartner offers world-class benefits highly competitive compensation and disproportionate rewards for top performers.

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Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1