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SEO Specialists can qualify for H-1B visa or O-1 visa sponsorship when the role requires a bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, or a related field. Employers in tech, e-commerce, and digital agencies sponsor most frequently, with H-1B being the primary pathway. For detailed occupation requirements, see the O*NET profile.
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Location: Chicago - N. State
About the job
As a Manager, SEO & AI Discovery at Merkle, you will lead SEO strategy across a portfolio of client accounts, setting program direction, owning complex audits and recommendations, and translating search performance into business outcomes. This role is built for a senior individual contributor who can move comfortably between technical SEO, content and on-page strategy, AI-driven discovery, performance measurement, and client advisory. You will serve as a trusted lead for assigned accounts, helping clients understand what is happening, why it matters, and what to do next.
Core Responsibilities
- Lead SEO strategy across assigned accounts: Set search program direction, prioritize workstreams, and ensure recommendations connect to client business goals, marketing priorities, and measurable outcomes.
- Serve as the day-to-day search lead: Build trusted relationships with client stakeholders, understand their goals, KPIs, business context, priorities, and decision-making dynamics, and translate search priorities into clear, business-relevant action.
- Own complex SEO / AI audits and analyses: Independently diagnose performance opportunities across technical SEO, content and on-page optimization, AI Search visibility, competitive landscape, and site architecture.
- Develop measurement frameworks: Define SEO reporting structures that connect organic visibility, technical health, content performance, classic SERP visibility, AI Overview presence, LLM visibility, and business outcomes.
- Turn data into decisions: Analyze data from GSC, GA4, crawl tools, rank tracking, log files, AI visibility platforms, and third-party tools to identify patterns, explain performance shifts, and prioritize action.
- Create actionable recommendations: Translate findings into prioritized recommendations with clear impact, effort, dependencies, confidence level, and implementation guidance for client, content, and engineering teams.
- Lead technical SEO workstreams: Guide recommendations across crawl, indexation, rendering, JavaScript SEO, Core Web Vitals, site architecture, internal linking, schema, structured data, migrations, and re-platforming.
- Advance content and AI Search visibility: Lead search intent mapping, topical authority planning, SERP feature analysis, AI Overview evaluation, LLM visibility analysis, entity and brand authority recommendations, and scalable on-page optimization frameworks.
- Own delivery quality: Manage assigned SEO workstreams end-to-end, including scoping, work planning, QA, stakeholder updates, timeline management, and on-time delivery.
- Mentor and review junior work: Coach consultants and staff consultants on analysis planning, data interpretation, recommendation quality, deliverable structure, and client-ready communication.
- Support account growth: Identify organic growth opportunities, contribute SEO expertise to pitches, RFPs, renewals, and SOW scoping, and help shape work that is clearly scoped, valuable to clients, and feasible for the team to deliver.
- Improve the SEO practice: Contribute to internal templates, playbooks, QA standards, training materials, AI-assisted workflows, and process improvements that help the team deliver better work at scale.
What You’ll Bring
- 3+ years of progressive SEO experience, preferably in an agency, consultancy, or complex multi-stakeholder environment.
- Strong technical SEO capability across crawl, indexation, rendering, site architecture, internal linking, Core Web Vitals, structured data, migrations, and JavaScript SEO.
- Demonstrated capability in SEO analysis and measurement, including the ability to combine multiple data sources and translate findings into business-relevant recommendations.
- Hands-on experience with tools such as Google Search Console, GA4, Screaming Frog, Sitebulb, Ahrefs, SEMRush, enterprise crawlers, rank tracking platforms, Data Studio, and AI visibility tracking platforms.
- Ability to build clear, persuasive client deliverables, including audits, executive summaries, dashboards, roadmaps, and strategic recommendation decks.
- Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the ability to adjust communication for executives, marketers, engineers, content teams, and internal stakeholders.
- Experience leading client conversations, answering questions in real time, and explaining and supporting recommendations with evidence, context, and judgment.
- Working knowledge of AI Search, including AI Overviews, LLM-powered discovery, citation visibility, entity authority, and AI-assisted SEO workflows.
- Strong project and workstream ownership, including the ability to manage timelines, flag risks early, coordinate with PMs and cross-functional teams, and keep stakeholders informed.
- Comfort mentoring consultants and staff consultants and reviewing their work for analytical accuracy, strategic clarity, and client readiness.
Preferred / Bonus Experience
- BigQuery, SQL, Python, server log analysis, API-based reporting, or other scalable data workflows.
- Experience with international SEO, e-commerce SEO, local SEO, video/image SEO, link building, digital PR, or SEO testing.
- Experience developing reusable SEO templates, processes, playbooks, training materials, or productized service offerings.
Leadership & Ways of Working
- You are proactive, responsive, and self-directed. You readily provide status/account updates, risks, or next steps.
- You can manage multiple accounts or workstreams at once without losing quality, context, or follow-through.
- You are comfortable with ambiguity and can turn broad client questions into structured analysis plans and practical recommendations.
- You raise risks early, propose paths forward, and balance client needs with team capacity and scope boundaries.
- You help make the team better by sharing what you know, improving how work gets done, and creating space for consultants and staff consultants to grow.
The annual salary range for this position is 65K-75K. Placement within the salary range is based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and other factors permitted by law.
Benefits available with this position include:
- Medical, vision, and dental insurance
- Life insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance
- 401k
- Flexible paid time off
- At least 15 paid holidays per year
- Paid sick and safe leave
- Paid parental leave
Dentsu also complies with applicable state and local laws regarding employee leave benefits, including, but not limited to providing time off pursuant to the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act, in accordance with its plans and policies. For further details regarding Dentsu benefits, please visit www.dentsubenefitsplus.com.
To begin the application process, please click on the "Apply" button at the top of this job posting. Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, and qualified candidates will be contacted for next steps.
At dentsu, we believe great work happens when we’re connected. Our way of working combines flexibility with in-person collaboration to spark ideas and strengthen our teams. Employees who live within a commutable distance of one of our hub offices, currently located in Chicago, metro Detroit, Los Angeles, and New York City, are required and expected to work from the office three days per week (two days per week for employees based in Los Angeles). Dentsu may designate other Hub offices at any time. Those who live outside a commutable range may be designated as remote, depending on the role and business needs. Regardless of your work location, we expect our employees to be flexible to meet the needs of our Company and clients, which may include attendance in an office.
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Location: Chicago - N. State
About the job
As a Manager, SEO & AI Discovery at Merkle, you will lead SEO strategy across a portfolio of client accounts, setting program direction, owning complex audits and recommendations, and translating search performance into business outcomes. This role is built for a senior individual contributor who can move comfortably between technical SEO, content and on-page strategy, AI-driven discovery, performance measurement, and client advisory. You will serve as a trusted lead for assigned accounts, helping clients understand what is happening, why it matters, and what to do next.
Core Responsibilities
- Lead SEO strategy across assigned accounts: Set search program direction, prioritize workstreams, and ensure recommendations connect to client business goals, marketing priorities, and measurable outcomes.
- Serve as the day-to-day search lead: Build trusted relationships with client stakeholders, understand their goals, KPIs, business context, priorities, and decision-making dynamics, and translate search priorities into clear, business-relevant action.
- Own complex SEO / AI audits and analyses: Independently diagnose performance opportunities across technical SEO, content and on-page optimization, AI Search visibility, competitive landscape, and site architecture.
- Develop measurement frameworks: Define SEO reporting structures that connect organic visibility, technical health, content performance, classic SERP visibility, AI Overview presence, LLM visibility, and business outcomes.
- Turn data into decisions: Analyze data from GSC, GA4, crawl tools, rank tracking, log files, AI visibility platforms, and third-party tools to identify patterns, explain performance shifts, and prioritize action.
- Create actionable recommendations: Translate findings into prioritized recommendations with clear impact, effort, dependencies, confidence level, and implementation guidance for client, content, and engineering teams.
- Lead technical SEO workstreams: Guide recommendations across crawl, indexation, rendering, JavaScript SEO, Core Web Vitals, site architecture, internal linking, schema, structured data, migrations, and re-platforming.
- Advance content and AI Search visibility: Lead search intent mapping, topical authority planning, SERP feature analysis, AI Overview evaluation, LLM visibility analysis, entity and brand authority recommendations, and scalable on-page optimization frameworks.
- Own delivery quality: Manage assigned SEO workstreams end-to-end, including scoping, work planning, QA, stakeholder updates, timeline management, and on-time delivery.
- Mentor and review junior work: Coach consultants and staff consultants on analysis planning, data interpretation, recommendation quality, deliverable structure, and client-ready communication.
- Support account growth: Identify organic growth opportunities, contribute SEO expertise to pitches, RFPs, renewals, and SOW scoping, and help shape work that is clearly scoped, valuable to clients, and feasible for the team to deliver.
- Improve the SEO practice: Contribute to internal templates, playbooks, QA standards, training materials, AI-assisted workflows, and process improvements that help the team deliver better work at scale.
What You’ll Bring
- 3+ years of progressive SEO experience, preferably in an agency, consultancy, or complex multi-stakeholder environment.
- Strong technical SEO capability across crawl, indexation, rendering, site architecture, internal linking, Core Web Vitals, structured data, migrations, and JavaScript SEO.
- Demonstrated capability in SEO analysis and measurement, including the ability to combine multiple data sources and translate findings into business-relevant recommendations.
- Hands-on experience with tools such as Google Search Console, GA4, Screaming Frog, Sitebulb, Ahrefs, SEMRush, enterprise crawlers, rank tracking platforms, Data Studio, and AI visibility tracking platforms.
- Ability to build clear, persuasive client deliverables, including audits, executive summaries, dashboards, roadmaps, and strategic recommendation decks.
- Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the ability to adjust communication for executives, marketers, engineers, content teams, and internal stakeholders.
- Experience leading client conversations, answering questions in real time, and explaining and supporting recommendations with evidence, context, and judgment.
- Working knowledge of AI Search, including AI Overviews, LLM-powered discovery, citation visibility, entity authority, and AI-assisted SEO workflows.
- Strong project and workstream ownership, including the ability to manage timelines, flag risks early, coordinate with PMs and cross-functional teams, and keep stakeholders informed.
- Comfort mentoring consultants and staff consultants and reviewing their work for analytical accuracy, strategic clarity, and client readiness.
Preferred / Bonus Experience
- BigQuery, SQL, Python, server log analysis, API-based reporting, or other scalable data workflows.
- Experience with international SEO, e-commerce SEO, local SEO, video/image SEO, link building, digital PR, or SEO testing.
- Experience developing reusable SEO templates, processes, playbooks, training materials, or productized service offerings.
Leadership & Ways of Working
- You are proactive, responsive, and self-directed. You readily provide status/account updates, risks, or next steps.
- You can manage multiple accounts or workstreams at once without losing quality, context, or follow-through.
- You are comfortable with ambiguity and can turn broad client questions into structured analysis plans and practical recommendations.
- You raise risks early, propose paths forward, and balance client needs with team capacity and scope boundaries.
- You help make the team better by sharing what you know, improving how work gets done, and creating space for consultants and staff consultants to grow.
The annual salary range for this position is 65K-75K. Placement within the salary range is based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and other factors permitted by law.
Benefits available with this position include:
- Medical, vision, and dental insurance
- Life insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance
- 401k
- Flexible paid time off
- At least 15 paid holidays per year
- Paid sick and safe leave
- Paid parental leave
Dentsu also complies with applicable state and local laws regarding employee leave benefits, including, but not limited to providing time off pursuant to the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act, in accordance with its plans and policies. For further details regarding Dentsu benefits, please visit www.dentsubenefitsplus.com.
To begin the application process, please click on the "Apply" button at the top of this job posting. Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, and qualified candidates will be contacted for next steps.
At dentsu, we believe great work happens when we’re connected. Our way of working combines flexibility with in-person collaboration to spark ideas and strengthen our teams. Employees who live within a commutable distance of one of our hub offices, currently located in Chicago, metro Detroit, Los Angeles, and New York City, are required and expected to work from the office three days per week (two days per week for employees based in Los Angeles). Dentsu may designate other Hub offices at any time. Those who live outside a commutable range may be designated as remote, depending on the role and business needs. Regardless of your work location, we expect our employees to be flexible to meet the needs of our Company and clients, which may include attendance in an office.
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Target roles that require a degree, not just experience
H-1B eligibility depends on the role qualifying as a specialty occupation. Look for SEO postings that explicitly require a bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, or a related field rather than listing a degree as preferred.
Focus on mid-to-large companies with prior H-1B filings
Smaller agencies rarely have immigration infrastructure in place. Companies with 500-plus employees in tech, retail, or media are far more likely to have sponsored before and are equipped to navigate the H-1B petition process efficiently.
Frame your expertise around technical SEO where possible
Technical SEO roles involving site architecture, JavaScript rendering, or crawl optimization are easier to justify as specialty occupations. Pure content or link-building roles face more scrutiny because the degree requirement is harder to defend.
Highlight cross-functional work with engineering and data teams
Sponsorship decisions often involve legal review of the job description. Emphasizing collaboration with developers on site performance or using analytics tools strengthens the case that the role requires specialized, degree-level knowledge.
Bring documentation of your degree-to-role connection
USCIS scrutinizes SEO roles more than traditional tech positions. Having a clear narrative linking your degree field directly to the job duties, supported by an offer letter with detailed responsibilities, significantly reduces the risk of an RFE.
Browse Migrate Mate to identify active sponsors in your niche
Sponsorship willingness varies significantly by industry. Migrate Mate filters SEO roles by visa sponsorship availability, so you can focus your applications on employers who have already committed to sponsoring rather than discovering their policy after an offer.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can an SEO Specialist get H-1B visa sponsorship?
Yes, but the role must qualify as a specialty occupation, meaning it requires at least a bachelor's degree in a specific field. SEO roles tied to marketing strategy, analytics, or technical web performance are more defensible than generalist content roles. USCIS has issued RFEs for SEO positions before, so the job description and degree alignment matter more than the title alone.
What degree do I need for an SEO Specialist role to qualify for H-1B sponsorship?
Most approved H-1B visa petitions for SEO roles cite degrees in marketing, communications, information systems, or computer science. The key is that the degree must be directly relevant to the job duties described in the petition. A general business degree alone is often not sufficient unless the position description emphasizes a specific analytical or technical specialization.
How likely is it that an SEO Specialist role gets approved by USCIS?
Approval rates for marketing-related H-1B petitions have historically been lower than for engineering or finance roles, and SEO is among the categories that draws RFEs. Roles framed around technical SEO, data analysis, or platform-specific expertise have a stronger approval track record. Working with an experienced immigration attorney to draft the job description and support letter is strongly recommended.
Are there visa options besides H-1B for SEO Specialists?
Yes. Australian citizens can pursue the E-3 visa, which has no lottery and is much faster. Canadians and Mexicans may qualify under the TN visa in the marketing professional category. Exceptionally accomplished SEO professionals with a strong portfolio of industry recognition, published research, or measurable business impact may also qualify for the O-1A visa as an extraordinary ability candidate.
Where can I find SEO Specialist jobs that offer visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate lists SEO roles filtered specifically by visa sponsorship availability, so you're only seeing positions where the employer has indicated willingness to sponsor. This saves significant time compared to applying broadly and asking about sponsorship after multiple interview rounds, which is common with standard job searches in this field.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Seo Specialist jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.