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SEO, GEO & AEO Lead

Publicis Groupe Holdings B.V3,058 open roles

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Johannesburg, South Africa
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Overview This is a senior, enterprise-level role for a practitioner who thinks in ecosystems, not channels. As SEO, GEO & AEO Lead for Africa, you will own and elevate organic search visibility across its three most critical and rapidly evolving dimensions — traditional search engine optimisation (SEO), generative engine optimisation (GEO), and answer engine optimisation (AEO) — delivering superiority across a connected PESO framework for a major global FMCG client. You are not a channel specialist. You are a strategic architect who understands how owned, earned, paid, and shared media interconnect, and who can engineer search-driven demand at enterprise scale — across diverse African markets, languages, and consumer behaviours. This role demands a rare combination: the commercial instincts of a senior marketer, the technical depth of a search engineer, and the cultural fluency to navigate the complexity of the African continent. Responsibilities What you'll be doing Strategy & ecosystem leadership Defining and owning the integrated SEO, GEO, and AEO strategy across African markets, embedded within and connected to the broader PESO ecosystem Ensuring organic search performance is architected as a system — where paid amplifies earned, owned content feeds generative engines, and shared signals reinforce authority Leading enterprise-level search thinking for a global FMCG client, translating brand and commercial objectives into search opportunity across the full consumer journey Acting as the senior search authority in client relationships, contributing to C-suite and regional leadership conversations with data-led recommendations Generative & answer engine optimisation (GEO / AEO) Developing and executing strategies to ensure brand content surfaces prominently in AI-generated responses across platforms including Google SGE/AI Overviews, Perplexity, Bing Copilot, and voice assistants Structuring content to be cited, quoted, and surfaced by large language models — through authoritative sourcing, entity optimisation, and semantic clarity Designing AEO frameworks for FAQ, conversational, and zero-click content across product categories, ensuring brand answers dominate high-intent queries Monitoring and reporting on AI SERP feature ownership and generative citation rates as emerging KPIs Technical SEO excellence Conducting and directing comprehensive technical audits across multi-market, multi-domain environments — including site architecture, crawl efficiency, Core Web Vitals, structured data (schema.org), JavaScript rendering, and international SEO (hreflang, ccTLDs) Setting and enforcing technical SEO standards across agency and client-side development teams Leading the adoption and expert-level use of the full search toolstack: Google Search Console, SEMrush, Ahrefs, Screaming Frog, Botify or Lumar, Looker Studio, GA4, and AI-native search monitoring tools Owning the entity and knowledge graph optimisation strategy — ensuring brand, product, and category entities are correctly established across Google's Knowledge Graph and Wikidata Multi-market Africa execution Adapting global SEO/GEO/AEO strategies for the nuances of African markets, including language and dialect variation (English, French, Arabic, Swahili, Afrikaans, and others), infrastructure constraints, and mobile-first consumer behaviour Managing in-market SEO priorities across key African hubs (e.g. South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt, Morocco, Ghana) while maintaining strategic coherence at a continental level Navigating the distinct digital landscape of African markets — including the role of WhatsApp, social search, and platform-specific discovery — in shaping the broader search ecosystem Content & PESO integration Partnering with content, PR, social, and paid media teams to ensure organic search is embedded at the planning stage — not bolted on after the fact Championing content that earns links, generates citations, and feeds generative AI engines: authoritative, structured, and locally resonant Leading the development of pillar content, topic cluster architectures, and content calendars that serve SEO, GEO, and AEO objectives simultaneously Measurement & reporting Building and owning multi-market SEO performance dashboards that report on traditional, generative, and answer engine visibility in one connected view Presenting performance, strategic direction, and recommendations to senior client stakeholders with clarity and commercial context Establishing baselines, setting measurable targets, and holding the broader team accountable to them Qualifications Minimum 5 years in a senior SEO role, with a clear track record of delivery on global, multi-market accounts at enterprise scale — agency or client-side Demonstrable expertise across all three disciplines: SEO, GEO, and AEO — including hands-on experience with AI-driven SERP features and answer engine strategy Marketing-qualified with a strong commercial foundation — you understand brand building, consumer behaviour, and FMCG category dynamics, not just rankings and traffic Expert-level proficiency across the full SEO toolstack (GSC, SEMrush, Ahrefs, Screaming Frog, Botify/Lumar, GA4, Looker Studio) — you don't just use these tools, you extract strategic advantage from them Deep technical SEO capability: JavaScript SEO, schema markup, log file analysis, international SEO architecture, Core Web Vitals Experience working within or across a PESO framework, with a clear understanding of how organic search connects to paid, earned, and shared media Knowledge of African markets and the associated digital complexity — mobile-first behaviour, multilingual environments, infrastructure variation, and platform differences An enterprise mindset: able to navigate complex organisational structures, manage senior stakeholder relationships, and drive alignment across global and local teams Exceptional communicator — equally at home presenting to a CMO or working through a technical brief with a developer Nice to have Experience with retailer and e-commerce search in African markets (Jumia, Takealot, etc.) Familiarity with Arabic, French, Swahili, or other African language SEO Knowledge of entity SEO, knowledge graph management, and Wikidata optimisation Experience with headless/composable CMS architectures and their SEO implications Exposure to programmatic SEO at scale Additional information What success looks like At 90 days: a full baseline audit is complete across priority markets, a clear SEO/GEO/AEO roadmap is in place and signed off, and you've established yourself as the senior organic search voice in the client relationship. At 12 months: measurable improvements in traditional search visibility, growing brand presence in AI-generated responses, and a fully connected search strategy embedded within the PESO ecosystem — with the data to prove it.

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