About Us
iCrossing is a Hearst-backed marketing and technology partner built for how brands grow today. As outcomes architects, we bring together strategy, media, experience, engineering, data, and AI to build connected digital systems that improve performance, strengthen customer experiences, and support measurable business growth.
Our work is grounded in data-backed strategy, modern digital visibility, and connected execution. We help brands perform now while transforming for what’s next, designing the platforms, content, media, and operating models that help them move faster, learn smarter, and scale what works.
At iCrossing, you’ll work with teams across marketing, technology, and experience to solve complex client challenges with strategic breadth and executional depth. As part of Hearst, we combine agency agility with access to powerful data, insights, audiences, content, and technology capabilities.
Your Impact
The Manager provides day-to-day SEO leadership for advanced/large clients, broadens overall engagements with cross-channel knowledge, and can lead more junior owned media personnel on enterprise-level clients. The Manager participates in new business pitches and helps shape the company’s SEO product offering. This is a full-time role and requires 2 days per week in the office.
What you’ll do
- Responsible for client owned media strategy
- Primary point of contact to present strategies to clients
- Leads owned media engagements for large size and complex clients
- Facilitates upsell and cross sell opportunities with clients
- Participates in new business pitches
- Mentors junior team members in all owned media topics
- Leads the creation of new practices and creation of deliverables based on industry trends
- Attends and presents at industry conferences and events
- Creates client success case studies
- Creates industry POVs
- Earns high overall client satisfaction scores
Who you are
- Minimum 4 years’ experience working in SEO
- Advanced knowledge of common industry tools & platforms
- Expert proficiency with Microsoft Office (especially Excel & PowerPoint)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Clear and concise communication style
- Strong mathematical, analytical and writing skills
- Must be able to compare data and analyze tactics to maximize results
- Fundamental understanding of HTML
- Experience with CSS, JavaScript and web design technologies is a plus
The estimated salary range for this position in Chicago is between $77,000 and $90,000. For NewYork City, the estimated salary range for this position is between $85,000 and $100,000. The range for the position in other geographies may vary based on market differences. The actual compensation will be determined based on experience and other factors permitted by law.
We also offer a competitive benefits package that includes:
- Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Flexible Spending & Health Savings Account
- Paid holidays, vacation, and sick time
- Parental Leave
- Employee assistance program and other company benefits
Skills Required
- Minimum 4 years' experience working in SEO
- Advanced knowledge of common industry tools & platforms
- Expert proficiency with Microsoft Office (especially Excel & PowerPoint)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Clear and concise communication style
- Strong mathematical, analytical and writing skills
- Must be able to compare data and analyze tactics to maximize results
- Fundamental understanding of HTML
- Experience with CSS, JavaScript and web design technologies
- Required to be in the office 2 days per week
Hearst Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Hearst and has not been reviewed or approved by Hearst.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, including medical plan choice, full in-network preventive coverage, dental and vision, telemedicine, prescription coverage, and fertility resources. Mental-health resources and other wellbeing services (e.g., therapy sessions, crisis support, virtual physical therapy, and chronic-condition programs) further strengthen the health offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as meaningful through a 401(k) plan with company matching and Hearst covering plan administration fees. Performance bonuses are also noted as available in some roles, adding an additional rewards component beyond base pay.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits include paid holidays, paid sick days, and vacation time with a commonly cited annual range, alongside paid parental leave and family medical leave. A remote work program and flexibility signals are also included as part of the overall rewards experience.
Hearst Insights
What We Do
Hearst is a leading global, diversified media, information and services company with more than 360 businesses. Its major interests include ownership in cable television networks such as A&E, HISTORY, Lifetime and ESPN; global financial services leader Fitch Group; Hearst Health, a group of medical information and services businesses; transportation assets including CAMP Systems International, a major provider of software-as-a-service solutions for managing maintenance of jets and helicopters; 33 television stations such as WCVB-TV in Boston and KCRA-TV in Sacramento, California, which reach a combined 19 percent of U.S. viewers; newspapers such as the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle and Times Union (Albany, New York); more than 300 magazines around the world, including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Men's Health and Car and Driver, and digital services businesses such as iCrossing and KUBRA; and investments in emerging digital entertainment companies such as Complex Networks.
