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Who are we?

A world where complexity is the only constant demands a new breed of company. Brave Bison is a different beast: a media, marketing and technology company purpose built for the digital era.

Our universe is made up of award-winning business arms Brave Bison Performance, Brave Bison Commerce and SocialChain. And we’re underpinned by our very own social-first media network who deliver monthly views in the billions for some of the biggest channels in sport and entertainment across YouTube, Snap, Meta and TikTok.

We’re a global collective who live and breathe digital, working with some of the boldest brands in the world to capitalise on the complexity that defines the modern marketing landscape.

Our mission

New platforms, new behaviours, new audiences, new trends, new technologies, new regulations—our clients’ worlds get more complex daily. Their agency partnerships shouldn’t. It’s our job to cut through the chaos, make the complex simple and navigate a clear path to growth for them.

That’s why we make it our mission to capitalise on complexity for our clients—by crafting dynamic digital solutions that outpace tomorrow’s challenges.

Our values

We’re a proudly diverse business comprised of deep specialists across social media, digital marketing and technology. Although our skills, backgrounds and beliefs may differ, we are united by four core shared values:

• Bold Curiosity.

We run at change and challenge convention because we love to push the boundaries of what the world thinks is possible. We champion discovery, go deep into our clients’ worlds and are always hungry to learn more about them, our specialisms and each other.

• Connected Clarity.

We are focused in our collaboration — joining the right dots between our clients, our partners and our herd of experts to deliver agile solutions at speed and scale. We set a shared ambition from the outset, are transparent at every stage and always strive to make the complex simple.

• Positive Encouragement.

We want to make working with us the best part of someone’s day. We lift one other up, find the fun in the day to day and are committed to ensuring everyone belongs.

• Constant Impact.

We believe in outcomes over outputs. We’re goal orientated, results driven and data led. We show up with passion every day. And we’re always honing our craft.

About Brave Bison Performance

With over 20 years’ experience growing our clients’ businesses through digital media, we help brands leverage the right data, right partners and right tech to capitalise on complexity and supercharge their online growth.

By going deep into our clients’ world, investing their budget where it will work the hardest and ensuring that we only win when they win, we stand for braver digital in a world of opportunity.

Your role

The Director of Organic Performance will lead the SEO, Content, and Digital PR teams at a strategic and innovation focused level, driving agencywide initiatives to elevate organic performance capabilities. This position is responsible for shaping scalable strategies and fostering collaboration across departments, ensuring the agency delivers best-in-class solutions for clients. Internally ensuring a viable and profitable approach to services focusing on how to build both size of revenue and hit the overall P&L target. The role includes resourcing across Digital PR, Content & Technical SEO functions by working closely with departmental leaders across each function to ensure consistency and shared governance whilst assessing impact to P&L.

Role and responsibility

• The role involves leading a talented team of professionals and consultants from mixed specialisms to achieve the following for the agency:
• Defining and executing the agency’s overarching organic performance vision, ensuring alignment with business goals and market trends.
• Developing scalable frameworks and processes to support consistent and impactful delivery of organic performance initiatives across the client portfolio.
• Assessing client needs a seniority required across relationships and suitability of tooling based on cost.
• Driving collaboration between SEO, Content, and Digital PR teams to ensure cohesive and innovative service.
• Establishing and maintaining agency standards for keyword research, competitor analysis, and market insights.
• Leading the productisation and dissemination of SEO recommendations, technical guidelines, and content strategies from both a sales and implementation perspective.
• Monitoring industry trends and algorithm updates, ensuring the agency’s strategies remain cutting-edge and effective whilst communicating this across the industry.
• Championing the use of data and AI for insights to improve strategies and guide decision-making across the agency and the client portfolio.
• Aligning and innovating with our tech team on SEO tech and tooling.
• Developing training programs and knowledge sharing initiatives to upskill team members and maintain a culture of continuous improvement.
• Creating business cases for internal growth initiatives, new service offerings, and opportunities to expand organic performance capabilities.
• Fostering growth within other pillars of the business, focusing on cross benefit for commerce clients.

Qualification and skills requirements

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in an agency or client-side environment, with a proven ability to lead high-performing teams and implement innovative strategies. You will have developed both the strategic and operational skills required to take ownership of the agency’s organic performance initiatives and drive measurable results.

Our ideal candidate will understand everything relating to organic performance and a desire and ability to learn and innovate. We’re looking for people with logical and analytical minds who can show some initiative and take pride in their work.

Essential skills and experience

• Extensive understanding of search engines and advanced technical and content-led SEO strategies and techniques.

• Proven experience with scalable frameworks and processes for organic performance delivery.

• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and foster collaboration across departments.

• Advanced Excel skills and excellent written and spoken English.

• Strong project and resource management expertise, with a track record of delivering results for a diverse client portfolio.

• Exceptional analytical mindset, capable of translating data into actionable strategies.

• Experienced in pitching and speaking to c-suite individuals.

• Must have the right to work and live in the UK.

Desirable skills

• Experience with international and multilingual SEO strategies.

• Second language proficiency.

• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and CMS systems.

• Salesforce or similar CRM platform experience.

• Background in presenting to senior stakeholders and managing relationships at the executive level.

What you’ll get

Our people make us who we are, so to make sure we attract and retain the best and brightest in the industry, we offer an attractive benefits package.

But not only that, we are the UK’s first carbon neutral agency (a status we have held since 2018), with a serious commitment to monitoring and reducing the impact our work has on the planet across three core sustainability pillars of Greenhouse Gases, Waste & Recycling and Sustainable Consumption.

Then there’s a whole host of benefits – from discounted gym memberships and free eye tests to an employee pension scheme and enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption package. Here’s a snapshot of just some of the benefits we think you might also like:

• Dynamic working: To keep that work-life harmony in check, we're flexible on where and when you work

• Private medical insurance: To keep you fighting fit and give you and your family peace of mind.

• Income protection: We know it feels good to be covered, just in case.

• Calm Subscription: Now more than ever, it’s important to mind your mind!

• 25 days annual leave: This increases to 27 days after three years with us, and then increases every subsequent year up to a max. of 30 days

• Christmas closure: No need to save holiday days for the Christmas closure period. It's on us!

• Birthdays off: One extra day to celebrate your big day

• Summer hours: Between June and Aug we finish at 15.00 every Friday.

• Online coaching: Unlimited coaching via MoreHappi

• Remote Working: Work abroad for up to one month a year.

• Performance & Salary: Reviewed twice a year for everyone.

Finally, we’re proud and committed to being an equal opportunity workplace, providing equal opportunities for all and treating all existing employees and all job applicants in the same way, regardless of their age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity status and marital & civil partnership status.