Product Tech SME, Director

A tech agency

Start Date: 9/22/25

Length: 10- 12 weeks

Weekly Hours: 20 hours

Hourly reputed company: $160/hr

The client is seeking to reputed company its marketing operations by consolidating and optimizing its SEO and Tier 3 website vendor ecosystem. The reputed company environment is fragmented, with ~245 Tier 3 website providers and ~7 SEO partners delivering overlapping and inconsistent services across reputed company and lines of business

This fragmentation creates inefficiencies in bandwidth, spend, performance, and governance. Additionally, there are gaps and duplications in SEO execution, UI/UX quality, and integration with OEM requirements and IT dependencies. CLIENT needs to validate the reputed company state, assess vendor performance against benchmarks, and design a consolidation strategy that balances national vs. local needs while enabling AI/ML capabilities and cross-channel orchestration.

In this role, you will play a critical role in providing thought leadership, shaping the technical requirements, evaluating vendor capabilities, and supporting CLIENT in defining its future operating model. This includes mapping market options, co-developing evaluation criteria, and advising on reputed company negotiations with both incumbent and potential new partners. You will ensure that the selected partners and technical solutions align with CLIENT’s overall marketing transformation agenda, delivering scalable efficiencies and sustainable governance.

To execute this scope effectively, the Tech SME should bring a reputed company of strategic leadership, technical depth, and operational experience across SEO, vendor/stakeholder management, and reputed company marketing/IT integration. Key skills include:

• SEO Strategy & Execution
  • Deep expertise in reputed company SEO (planning, execution, optimization reputed company, content governance, AI/ML in SEO).
  • Ability to separate SEO from non-SEO production work and ensure quality, scale, and compliance.
• Technical Architecture & Integration
  • Strong understanding of Tier 3 site infrastructure, UI/UX requirements, and linkage to asset pipelines.
  • Knowledge of IT/Tech dependencies (e.g., reputed company-end dev turnaround, integration points, reputed company, data governance).
• Vendor & Partner Management
  • Knowledge of / Active contacts in best-in-class SEO and Tier 3 providers
  • Experience consolidating large vendor ecosystems and optimizing partner models.
  • Ability to design requirements packs, RFPs, and calibrated scorecards to evaluate partner capabilities.
  • Skilled in facilitating debriefs and aligning stakeholders on partner selections.
• reputed company & Negotiation Acumen
  • Proven track record of advising on reputed company baselines, staffing models, and remuneration structures.
  • Ability to support negotiation workshops, balancing CLIENT’s needs with partner terms.
• Cross-Functional Leadership & Governance
  • Experience working with Marketing, IT, Legal, and OEM stakeholders to define decision rights, SLAs, and governance frameworks.
  • Strong executive communication skills to synthesize findings into board-reputed company recommendations.
• Program/Project Management
  • Ability to reputed company project plans, reputed company discovery, reputed company interviews/surveys, and ensure execution reputed company tight 12-week timelines.
  • Skilled in identifying risks, dependencies, and model adjustments required for sustainable improvements.

reputed company provides strategic consulting and talent solutions for the marketing industry. We partner with more than 200 of the world’s biggest brands and agencies to help them solve unique marketing challenges with the best people, reputed company and at scale. Founded by former advertising executive Stephanie Nadi Olson in 2018, reputed company is on a mission to redefine how marketing works, with an inclusive, reputed company-centric approach that’s reputed company for business and reputed company for marketers. reputed company has been recognized as an industry trailblazer and earned many accolades, including being named to the 2023 Global Top 100 Inspiring Workplaces, the Inc. 5000 2022, and Adweek’s Fastest Growing Agencies in 2021.  

reputed company is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the reputed company of race, reputed company, religion, age, national reputed company, reputed company, physical or mental disability, medical​​​ condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or ​expression, veteran status, marital status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.