Digital Strategist

We’re looking for a passionate Digital Strategist to add to our tight-knit team.


Who we are

Orbit Media is an award-winning web design and development company based in the Ravenswood neighborhood of Chicago. But, you can work from anywhere. This can be a remote position.

Since 2001, we’ve been designing and building beautiful, audience-centric, optimized websites for a huge variety of clients in nearly every industry. We’re proud to be one of the first Illinois B Corps with deep roots in our community. We have fun and do great work. And we’d love for you to be a part of it.


Who you are

Orbit Media Studios is seeking a seasoned Digital Strategist to originate and communicate a strategic vision for SEO and CRO on up to 6 fantastic household brands. Your role places you in collaboration with a project manager, content specialist, technical specialist, and analytics engineer. Together, we work with science, expertise, and integrity to help the people in these businesses at the highest levels of digital.

The Job:

  • Lead an overall SEO and CRO strategy for a handful of great brands.
  • Act as a trusted advisor, partner, and friend to contacts within our client organizations.
  • Design creative content development strategies to achieve specific SEO and CRO goals.
  • Execute, communicate, and help iterate an advanced, modular auditing process.
  • Validate ideas using tools such as Google Optimize and prove success through data.
  • Quality control of your team’s activities, including specialists in content, code, and analytics.
  • Collaborate with a small number of other teams on strategy through a centralized process.
  • Be a key player in a youngish and rapidly developing business unit at Orbit Media.
  • Expect overlap with these common job titles: SEO Consultant, SEO Analyst, Digital Strategist, Content Strategist, Content Manager, and Account Manager.

Responsibilities

  • Own client relationships and communication
  • Direct and manage work both internally and with the client to deliver high quality website updates that drive business results
  • Consistently set and manage expectations, ensure delivery of the highest quality service, and solicit and act on client feedback
  • Manage all aspects of website optimization work—including SEO and conversion deliverables, on-site updates, design, development, testing and launches— to ensure expected client results are achieved within budget and on time
  • Follow all Orbit standard processes and policies while using creativity and good judgment to meet specific project demands
  • Help create, define, and refine new processes, procedures, and policies specific to website optimization
  • Contribute to the growth of Orbit and our website optimization practice

The Skills

  • 5+ years experience with SEO and content marketing topics.
  • Account-facing relationship management.
  • Technical SEO: audits, site architecture, experiments, etc.
  • Creative SEO: keywords, content strategy, linkbait, etc.
  • Conversion Optimization: varied testing, analytics wizardry, etc.
  • Possess (or acquire) Google Analytics 4 certification.
  • Organized, great at deadlines, and leading others to be the same.
  • Communicate complex ideas simply and kindly.
  • Write at a professional level that stays in alignment with the AP Style Guide.
  • Mastery of tools like GSuite, Screaming Frog, SEMrush, and Google Tag Manager.

Brownie Points

  • Front-end web development experience (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript).
  • Experience with data scraping, spreadsheet wizardry, or other productivity hacks.
  • Samples of past campaign strategy, execution, and outcomes.

Benefits

  • 15 PTO days and 1 VTO (volunteer time off) day
  • 12 paid holidays including a floating holiday and PTO from Xmas to New Years
  • Health, dental, & vision insurance
  • Simple IRA with 3% matched by Orbit
  • Paid parental leave
  • STD/LTD options
  • Pet insurance option
  • Identity Protection option
  • Budget for professional growth

Our commitment to an inclusive workplace

Orbit Media provides equal employment opportunity to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.


Interested? Here’s what we need from you

  • Resume
  • Start date availability

Apply now

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Become an Orbiteer

What does it mean to be an Orbiteer? It means being an integral part of building beautiful conversion-oriented websites that deliver genuine results for our clients. It means being able to be creative while working on small teams. It means never being siloed.

It means getting to be yourself.

We hire people at Orbit so that you can do your best work. You have input at every stage of a project, and your fingerprints are all over it. We love working with each other, we share credit and laughter, and we get better because we get along. It’s pretty nice.

Becoming an Orbiteer means being driven to build something, and having the freedom to make it your own.

Amazing benefits

15 PTO days & 12 paid holidays

Free PTO from Xmas to New Years

Health, dental, & vision insurance

Simple IRA with 3% matched by Orbit

Paid parental leave

Budget for professional growth

Great perks

Work from anywhere

Work-life balance is our top priority

PPC (Party Planning Committee) sponsored events

Killer summer outing & Xmas party

Fantasy football league & game nights

Virtual happy hours with the whole team

Lovely location

We’re in Ravenswood right on Malt Row

But, you can be anywhere

We’re steps from the Irving Park Brownline

Minutes from the Montrose Metra stop

There’s a DIVVY station out front

Even a gym downstairs (a serious one)

We work hard to give back

We love Chicago. We’re proud to be a Chicago company, and we use our talents to become an integral part of this city. We’ve helped donate over $660,000 in marketing and web services to deserving non-profits through Chicago Cause, a yearly charity we helped create!

We’re proud to be one of the few Certified B Corporations in Illinois. We practice good environmental stewardship and fair labor laws.

We don’t think it’s enough to do well. At Orbit, we practice doing good. We hope you’ll join us in doing so.

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We’re growing. You can too.

Every day at Orbit we ask how we can deliver more to our clients (ok, maybe not every Friday). We want you to contribute ideas, take chances, and step out of your comfort zone. We want you to grow professionally and personally.  

There’s a culture of work/life balance here that’s nearly unmatched. We have people at all stages of life and careers, from kids straight out of school to people with kids in school. We all hang out. We have game nights, beer fridges, and parties. We’re there at each other’s birthdays and concerts.

Because while we take pride in our work, and work hard, we know there’s more. Orbit is built by and for Orbiteers. Always has been, always will be.