Managing Director

Graphite is a technology-enabled growth agency that helps fast-growing companies like Masterclass, Notion, and BetterUp unlock sustainable revenue through content and SEO. We’re obsessed with impact— it’s foundational to who we are, why we’re successful, and how we approach delivering outcomes for clients and ultimately, everyone on the internet. We are a fully distributed company with team members located across North America, Latin America, and Europe. Come join us and help us create the best content, everywhere that matters.

The rapid growth of our technology-enabled agency business has put us in an exciting position to grow our team of strategic accounts, which has been foundational to our agency's success. As a result, we are eagerly searching for an experienced Managing Director with a strong academic background in business or any STEM-related major, to support us in our growth. This role requires you to be resourceful, creative, and persistent to make growth marketing a successful strategic initiative for partners. You feel comfortable managing multiple projects and working in a performance-driven environment while cultivating a strong sense of team and collaboration. This is a fully remote work opportunity.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work collaboratively on complex, large-scale, time-critical projects.

• Ensure your team works with intensity to deliver premium work.

• Build a meaningful relationship with the client decision-maker(s) (executive sponsor) to gain a deep understanding of the client’s success criteria and business goals with the ultimate goal of driving renewals.

• Analyze digital marketing campaigns, website performance, identify trends, and provide recommendations.

• Collaborate with the executive sponsor on an ROI model to ensure buy-in of the long-term SEO strategies.

• Meet regularly with the internal project team to ensure we’re executing HIIs and unblocking the project.

• Run periodicals QA to internal project team work to ensure it meets Graphite’s standards and is consistently aligned with the client’s goals and expectations.

• Partner with the Director of Customer Success on other relationship-building and renewal strategies.

Requirements:

• Executive Stakeholder Management: Proven trajectory of managing stakeholders at the VP level or above

• People management: Experience overseeing and managing a team of direct collaborators

• Project Management: Experience managing client deliverables promptly. Leveraging communications to ensure all strategies and deliverables will be delivered on time. 

• Data Analysis: Exceptional data analysis skills (you are the go-to spreadsheet person on your team)

• Paid Search: Either agency or in-house experience with PPC, SEM, paid search, and paid ads.

• Product: Excellent product sense and solving challenging problems with simple elegant product solutions

• Tools: Experience working with a number of data and product tools (Google Analytics, Excel, Data Studio, Amplitude, SEMRush, Ahrefs, Asana, Jira, etc.)

• SEO + Content: At least 10+ years of agency or in-house experience with technical SEO and content strategy and/or general experience and awareness of the digital marketing space, including paid search, SEO, social, some digital marketing strategies, etc. Programmatic SEO is a huge plus!

How we’ll help:

Graphite’s mission is to create an environment where you build the best work of your career. In order to facilitate this, we provide:

• Process As Needed - We view the process as a way to empower better work, not as a series of dogmatic rules. We develop the best internal processes as we do products - through iteration, measurement, and continuous improvement

• Autonomy - We trust you to be excellent at what you do. We will provide as much support as needed when needed, but no more. You will have autonomy and agency to drive projects forward, and own decisions and outcomes

• Flexible Work Environment - Flexible Work Environment - Everyone’s optimal work style is unique. We operate as a distributed team across the United States, Canada, Latin America and Europe. We optimize for productivity and performance, not time spent in an office. Help us build an optimal work environment that fits you as an individual

• Compensation - We want to work with the best people in the World and compensate accordingly

• Vacation & Time Off - In order to be the best version of yourself, you need time to recharge. We offer flexible PTO. Take time when you need it

• Benefits - We will ensure you have quality health care coverage and opportunities to further your education

Graphite provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, genetic information or any other protected classification.