Jobs at Advance Local

Develop and execute technical and content SEO strategies for client websites. Conduct audits, resolve crawlability and indexing issues, optimize site architecture and on-page elements, support migrations, monitor performance using analytics tools, and provide actionable recommendations. Collaborate with developers, writers, SEO specialists, and clients while managing multiple projects and adapting to emerging AEO, GEO, and AI-search trends.

Reports on the University of Michigan and local government in Washtenaw and Livingston counties. Identifies stories through community conversations, social monitoring, search trends, public records, and meeting agendas; verifies information, files FOIAs, builds source networks, and produces timely news, explainers, enterprise reporting, video scripts, and social videos. The reporter works independently at a high tempo, uses AI responsibly, appears on camera, and engages with communities in person.

Owns end-to-end delivery quality for digital advertising, SEO, and website services serving equipment dealers. The role establishes standards and SOPs, manages execution teams, ensures accurate reporting, escalates client issues, identifies delivery risks, and improves operational efficiency. It partners with product leaders to implement AI-assisted workflows, develops scalable processes, presents performance insights to clients, and supports retention through consistent, measurable work.

Analyze business, financial, customer, product, market, and operational data to identify trends and growth opportunities. Maintain KPI, OKR, profitability, and executive reporting dashboards, prepare leadership and Board materials, and develop actionable insights for Sales and Client Success teams. Use data to improve retention, expansion, efficiency, profitability, and customer recommendations while partnering across finance, operations, sales, and executive leadership.

Build and maintain AI-driven workflows and agents that automate repetitive service-delivery tasks. Identify automation opportunities with product, engineering, and service teams; prototype and refine solutions against real workflows; prepare and structure data inputs; measure impact; document automations; and ensure efficiency improvements preserve quality and client experience.

Reports on local news, public safety, and community issues in Kalamazoo County. Identifies stories through social monitoring, search trends, public records, meetings, and community conversations; verifies information, files FOIAs, develops sources, and produces timely updates, explainers, enterprise stories, video scripts, and social videos. The role requires audience awareness, accountability journalism, on-camera comfort, reliable transportation, and the ability to work independently at a fast pace.

The multimedia journalist will produce and create news stories through photography, video, and audio, while collaborating with a team and engaging with the community.

Manage creation and optimization of digital advertising campaigns across Google, Facebook, and Microsoft. Perform budgeting, bid management, ad copy and targeting updates, analyze data to improve performance, collaborate with internal teams and clients, train junior staff, update creatives, and maintain internal tools and reporting.

Provides administrative and office management support for a newsroom, including mail, visitors, calls, meetings, supplies, filing, equipment, and facilities requests. Assists with marketing content, communications, campaigns, sponsorships, and brand initiatives. Coordinates catering, logistics, and live events, while supporting leadership with travel arrangements and expense processing. Requires strong organization, editing, interpersonal, and Microsoft Office skills, plus at least one year of relevant experience and regular in-office presence.

Own the technical side of the sales process by creating customized demo environments, evaluating demo tooling, supporting complex API and webhook integration discussions, and translating technical capabilities into business value. Capture structured prospect feedback for Product and enable sales enablement. This individual contributor role may grow into leading a Solutions Engineering function.

Oversee social media strategy and execution, manage NYup.com content, lead newsletter strategy, assign and edit articles, supervise journalists and producers, coordinate freelancers, grow audience engagement, and support newsroom AI initiatives. The role requires strong journalism, social media analytics, storytelling, team leadership, and content optimization skills, along with flexibility for evenings and weekends and regular work in the Syracuse newsroom.

Reports on Alabama state government, politics, and issues affecting residents through breaking news, enterprise reporting, and accountability journalism. Builds diverse source networks, analyzes audience metrics to guide coverage, collaborates on digital storytelling formats, meets daily deadlines, and develops journalism that grows digital subscriptions. The role is based in Montgomery and requires transportation for statewide source meetings and events.

Sell data-driven digital advertising solutions to regional blue-chip clients across Finance, Home Services, Utilities, Legal, and Hi-Tech. Manage full sales lifecycle, build pipelines in Salesforce, deliver data-backed presentations, identify new opportunities, meet sales targets, collaborate with internal teams, and travel to client meetings and events.

Full-cycle sales role selling digital recruitment advertising: prospecting, client acquisition, consultative campaign strategy, and performance optimization. Manage pipeline in Salesforce, coordinate post-sale campaign execution with internal teams, deliver data-driven presentations, and regularly meet clients while working remotely with required local travel.

Join Catalyst IQ as a Sr. Specialist in Digital Advertising to enhance digital offerings, analyze performance data, support client communications, and drive results for automotive accounts.

Cover Pittsburgh-area high school (WPIAL) sports in real time, produce written stories and vertical video, build audience-driven features, and handle night, weekend and travel assignments. Shoot, edit and publish multimedia content for social and mobile platforms while sourcing and breaking news under deadline pressure.

Create and publish platform-native Pittsburgh Steelers content (cards, vertical video, short-form explainers) for Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. Collaborate with reporters and editors, move quickly on breaking news and game-day moments, optimize posts per platform, track performance, and use design/video skills to grow and engage audiences. Part-time temporary role requiring reliable local transportation.

Report across Lorain County, developing sources, digging into records and attending local government, courts, schools and zoning meetings. Gather breaking-news information and file multiple posts daily while an AI-enabled rewrite desk crafts final articles. Engage community, pursue accountability coverage, and travel locally to meet sources.

The Account Strategist manages client relationships and performance across digital marketing campaigns, delivering insights and optimizing strategies.

Drive strategic, profitable revenue growth by managing the full sales lifecycle for regional clients. Use needs-based selling, develop data-driven presentations, maintain pipeline in Salesforce, collaborate with internal teams, meet or exceed targets, and travel to client meetings, conferences, and team events.