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POSITION TITLE: DIGITAL MARKETING SPECIALIST-SEO/SEM

FLSA STATUS: EXEMPT

POSITION TYPE: FULL-TIME

REPORTS TO: MARKETING MANAGER

SALARY RANGE: $55K-$60K

UPDATED: FEBRUARY 25TH, 2020

Smart City is a hyper-personalized, human-centered apartment locating service that saves renters time and money when searching for a new place to live. A unique lead generation system paired with our proprietary internal technology has created over 4300% growth in six years. Smart City has caused a major disruption in an antiquated apartment locating industry, all while being able to scale to a significant $19m in revenue with no outside funding. Even more impressive and unlike many startups in the real estate space, Smart City has continued to remain profitable during all high growth periods.

THE POSITION

The purpose of the Digital Marketing Specialist-SEO/SEM is to plan and execute a cohesive search engine marketing ecosystem based on a predetermined budget to optimize marketing lead gen efforts.

As a Digital Marketing Specialist-SEO/SEM, you will develop, optimize, and execute search engine marketing plans and campaigns to ensure revenue, budget, ROI, and other business goals are met. You will analyze data, identify trends in order to expand and optimize our client database, and manage all of our PPC accounts (Google Adwords, Bing, YELP etc.). Your goal is to reduce overall advertising spend while increasing lead gen and web traffic through organic and paid sources. The KPIs you are in charge of include the number of leads generated and cost per lead.

THE RESPONSIBILITIES/KEY EXPECTATIONS

• SEM Account Management - manage, create, and execute on all PPC ad campaigns
• Oversee all of our SEO and SEM/PPC initiatives to maximize local reach in all markets
• Plan, setup, optimize and manage all campaigns
• Manage and optimize budgets, A/B test ad creatives/copy, keyword research, set up audiences, and optimize for conversions and KPIs
• Keep up to date on industry trends to educate the team and implement on best practices 
• Optimize copy, blogs and landing pages
• Create new blogs and landing pages
• Perform keyword discovery and optimization
• Research and implement SEO recommendations
• Research and analyze competitor advertising links
• Develop and implement a link building strategy internally
• Work with the in-house dev team to ensure SEO best practices are properly implemented
• Project manage outsourced agencies as needed
• Recommend changes to website architecture, content, and linking as needed
• Report and analyze data
• Seek out new opportunities and propose new ideas/platforms
• Collaborate with the creative, email, and digital marketing teams to increase lead gen through paid media
• Other duties as assigned including but not limited to managing other advertising platform and optimization

EXPERIENCE/QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in SEM, PPC, and SEO
• 2+ years of SEM copywriting experience
• Experience working with Wordpress, HTML, CSS, Javascript
• Proficient using SEO tools like Google Analytics, Search Console, TagManager, AdWords, and SEMRush.
• Experience performing algorithm research and successfully implementing changes
• Experience in lead generation and B2C marketing
• Experience running A/B tests, retargeting, and remarketing
• Experience executing and managing ad campaigns
• Proven experience doing keyword research and implementing new SEO strategies
• Must be comfortable managing relationships with stakeholders across the company and expectations for deliverables
• Strong written and oral communication skills. We want someone who will not just produce the right numbers, but be able to clearly explain and make useful recommendations.
• Attention to detail with a high degree of accuracy on work output
• Able to work quickly and prioritize multiple projects
• Critical and analytical thinking skills
• Must be a team player
• Google Certification(s) a plus
• Hubspot experience preferred

TYPICAL OFFICE HOURS: Monday - Thursday: 8:30am - 5:30pm, Friday: 8:30am - 4:30pm

WHO WE ARE

We are more than just an apartment locating company. We love what we do, and we work all the time because to us, it doesn't feel like work. We believe that professionalism is doing what you say you're going to do. We pride ourselves on teamwork, and we live for helping others. We get excited when faced with a tough challenge and go the extra mile to achieve our goals. We believe in quick communication, accessibility, transparency, and having fun while putting in good old fashioned hard work. We go above and beyond, we are hyper-personalized, and we make friends, not clients. You are not just another email address, and we are not just another real estate service. We are Smart City.

HERE'S WHAT OUR COMPANY BELIEVES IN:

• Honor Bound – We do what we say we're going to do, and we don't need to wear a suit and tie to do it.
• Overachievers – We always go the extra mile.
• Never Settle – We are constantly striving for growth, both personally and professionally.
• Optimistic – We are a genuine force of positivity, not like rainbows and butterflies, but like, life is good.
• Real People- We treat everyone like friends, and we're real human beings who make mistakes sometimes. Let's learn from it and move forward.

Our team is extremely important to us and we're excited to have been recognized as one of Dallas Business Journal's ‘2019 Best Places to Work'.

__CHECK OUT OUR LINKEDIN PAGE TO SEE WHAT #SMARTCITYLIFE IS ALL ABOUT: https://www.linkedin.com/company/smartcityapartmentlocating/

PERKS - YOU KNOW YOU WANT ‘EM

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive and flexible health benefits plan
• PTO
• Monthly cell phone stipend
• Annual professional self-development stipend
• Casual dress code
• Dogs as far as the eye can see

WE TAKE EQUALITY SERIOUSLY

Smart City is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and does not discriminate based on race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law, in connection with any aspect of employment at Smart City Locating.

All offers of employment are conditioned upon the candidate's completion of a Form I-9 and delivery of appropriate documentation to establish the candidate's identity and legal authorization to work in the United States.

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