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Director of SEO and AEO

Chicago, IL · On-site

$140K - $160K/yr

Develop and operationalize frameworks for content retrieval, entity authority, semantic relevance, structured content, and AI-search readiness. Translate AEO insights into prioritized actions across ...

Content Marketing Manager

Chicago, IL · On-site

$132K - $165K/yr

Support SEO-driven growth initiatives in collaboration with the organic/SEO team. * Track and report on content performance, pipeline impact, and ROI. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR * 5+ years of experience ...

Produce platform-native content optimized for the distinct needs of Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and emerging platforms, adapting tone, format, and aspect ratio for each. * Maintain a library of ...

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How much do content optimization jobs pay per year?

As of Aug 10, 2026, the average yearly pay for content optimization in Chicago, IL is $120,131.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $126,700.00 and $131,900.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is the difference between Content Optimization vs Content Writer?

AspectContent OptimizationContent Writer
Primary FocusImproving existing content for search engines and user engagementCreating new content from scratch
Skills NeededSEO, keyword research, analytics, editingWriting, storytelling, research, creativity
Work EnvironmentMarketing teams, digital agencies, in-house marketingContent agencies, marketing teams, freelance platforms
Common CertificationsSEO certifications, digital marketing coursesWriting courses, journalism degrees

Content Optimization focuses on enhancing existing content to improve search engine rankings and user engagement, while Content Writers create new content to attract and inform audiences. Both roles often work within marketing teams and require strong writing skills, but their core tasks differ significantly.

What is content optimization?

Content optimization is the process of improving your website's content to make it more appealing and useful to both users and search engines. This involves refining text, images, metadata, and other elements to boost search engine rankings, increase user engagement, and achieve specific business goals. Techniques include keyword integration, improving readability, adding relevant links, and ensuring content is up to date. Effective content optimization helps drive more organic traffic and enhances the overall user experience.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive in content optimization, and why are they important?

To thrive in Content Optimization, you need expertise in SEO, keyword research, analytics, and a solid understanding of digital marketing principles, often supported by a degree in marketing, communications, or a related field. Familiarity with tools like Google Analytics, SEMrush, Ahrefs, and various content management systems is typically required. Strong analytical thinking, attention to detail, creativity, and effective communication help professionals stand out in this role. These skills ensure content reaches the right audience, performs well in search rankings, and aligns with business goals.

What are some common challenges faced by professionals in content optimization roles, and how can they be addressed?

One common challenge in content optimization is balancing SEO requirements with maintaining engaging and natural-sounding content for readers. Professionals often need to collaborate closely with writers, editors, and SEO specialists to ensure content is both discoverable and valuable. Keeping up with frequent changes in search engine algorithms and best practices is also crucial. Addressing these challenges involves ongoing communication with team members, continuous learning, and using analytics tools to measure and refine optimization strategies.
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Infographic showing various Content Optimization job openings in Chicago, IL as of August 2026, with employment types broken down into 1% Internship, 74% Full Time, 21% Part Time, 1% Temporary, and 3% Contract. Highlights an 78% Physical, 4% Hybrid, and 18% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $120,131 per year, or $57.8 per hour.

Senior Manager, Website Product Specialist (Consumer/HCP IMM)

AbbVie

Mettawa, IL • On-site

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, Retirement, PTO

Posted 27 days ago


AbbVie rating

8.6

Company rating: 8.6 out of 10

Based on 101 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

16th of 86 rated pharmaceutical


Job description

Company Description

About AbbVie

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

Job Description

The Senior Manager, Website Product Specialist (Consumer/HCP IMM) is a key cross-functional member of the Web Channel team responsible for leading team members and individual support for website projects and web programs on AbbVie’s Digital Marketing Platform (ADMP) with focused support on Strategy alignment and Account Support, Execution, Processes & Operating models and team leadership of activation leads.   This role has responsibility for leading enterprise work across all Consumer and HCP Immunology websites, pilot efforts and new ways of working including managing team members.

The Sr Website Product Specialist is responsible for internal brand team’s website platform needs for web assets working with cross functional team members and agency and internal partners to align and execute on website priorities supporting intake for content optimization workstreams and program leading all execution and strategic direction support.   

This Team Lead role for Immunology brand group will focus on Consumer and HCP Web roadmap, delivery and execution and the key areas of focus includes supporting all key web platform needs such as SEO, Tagging, Analytics, Testing & Personalization, support intake for content optimization workstreams and partner with appropriate IT partners for execution of workstreams while identifying process improvement opportunities.  This role represents a direct point of contact for day to day while also managing a key brand.

Additional Responsibilities include:

  • Research current state: document data points, identify problem space and pain points with current Web processes and operating models
  • Run workshops with consumer of current processes
  • Design In Housing Pilots for Web Products and workstreams such as Testing, Personalization.
  • Run pilots and report findings and performance
  • Author and publish new operating model playbook
  • Execute Change management
  • Socialize Deeper Site Operations Reporting Trends
  • Holistically manage consumer Site Tagging & Tagging Optimization
  • Manage Platform Governance (BTS collaboration & vendor alignment)
  • Act as SME for content optimization workstreams such as: SEO, Site Tagging, Analytics, Testing and Personalization
  • Define process flow for content optimization
  • Support project tracking process for Web channel activation

As a member of the AbbVie Digital Lab supporting our brand franchises, the Sr Website Product Specialist is responsible for supporting multiple stakeholders and coordinating a large matrixed organization of stakeholders including: Marketing, IT, AORs & Agency partners and Analytics and Marketing Operations stakeholders.  This role will lead and manage both strategic and tactical execution of the website projects to meet and exceed business goals.

Additional responsibilities:

  • Mentor and manage team members who support the same franchise area
  • Manage the product development process and life cycle from inception to product delivery, growth, and eventual retirement.
  • Work closely with Brand Marketing, Agency partners, data and analytics and other cross functional team members to drive new launches and enhancements and ensure that value propositions, messaging, and marketing activities address unique user needs/pain points.
  • Monitor the release process and prioritize the placement of new products or enhancements in a release, balancing organizational objectives, product strategy, and market needs.
  • Oversee organizational project plans tied to release schedule, identifying organizational impact resulting from changes to planned timeline and provide brand Governance leadership.
  • Be hands-on with content authoring and MRP submission for key project types that are in-housed and enable elimination of hand offs and quick delivery for initiatives that are high priority.
  • Account for platform or other related technology needs beyond current core platforms in place for Web that need to be established or introduced to achieve the benefits and allow for streamlined and efficient operations in the new model
  • Instantiate a Test and learn approach to adopt and modify over time key enhancements to process
  • Work with the external authoring agency resources and identify the appropriate mix of internal and external support
  • Implement and guide targeted personalization project implementations - enabling delivery of content that is relevant, most engaging driving next best action.
  • Measure the operations and stability of websites including assurance that the site is operating and optimized appropriately to operational standards.
  • Implement changes across the organization in an efficient, way that doesn’t impact key business priorities – sequence the rollout to account for key priorities

This role is accountable for bringing expertise and leadership support to advance the Digital Transformation key priorities and drive velocity and efficiency improvements to the organization and doing so with full coordination and alignment across multiple internal and external stakeholders in place today.

Additional Responsibilities:  

  • Define and support platform enhancements and foundational changes that support the strategy and direction of new operating models.
  • Understand the existing web product development business processes and marketing driven input from concept through to implementation.
  • Ensure familiarity and understanding of the Adobe Experience Cloud suite – including AEM, Target, Analytics and AAM/AEP.
  • Familiarity with process management tools including but not limited to: MS Project, Smartsheet, Jira, etc.
  • Ensure familiarity with best practice design principles including Mobile First design
  • Understand the release process and have familiarize with the prioritization processes and process for new products or enhancements and which require development team support or backend data/API updates
  • Enable new processes that create efficiency and agility and guide marketers and agencies in new ways of working
  • Collaborate effectively in a matrixed environment with Brand Marketing, Creative/CRM/Digital agencies, Media, Market Research, Analytics, Business Technology Solutions (BTS), Sales Operations, and Medical/Regulatory/Legal integrated business partners.
  • Partner closely with Marketing Operations and including Medical/Regulatory/Legal/Privacy partners to educate, lead and help AbbVie anticipate and balance organizational needs. 
  • Troubleshoot roadblocks and identify creative and compliant solutions to facilitate forward motion of new initiatives.
  • Guide creative agencies and support from change management perspective to identify where ways of working and processes need to change.

Competencies:

  • Ability to work and lead independent initiatives without day-to-day supervision
  • Able to prioritize & gracefully manage competing priorities to ensure deadlines are met.
  • Collaborative nature and ability to influence and guide cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Exceptional functional knowledge and expertise on digital marketing platforms.
    • e.g. Adobe Marketing Cloud, DMP systems, brand websites
  • Acumen for how digital agencies operate: scope of work process/mgmt., timelines
  • Inquisitive, strong analytical skills, including the ability to infer and apply learnings.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Attention to detail and follow-through on execution.
  • Strong project management abilities and critical work tool experience.
    • e.g. Excel, Visio, MS Project, PowerPoint, Smartsheet

Key AbbVie Leadership Competencies:

  • Positive “all for one” approach to team deliverables and priorities.
  • Builds strong relationships to enable higher performance.
  • Learns fast, grasps the “essence” and can change course quickly where indicated.
  • Raises the bar and is never satisfied with the status quo.
  • Creates a learning environment and open to suggestions.
  • Embraces the ideas of others, nurtures innovation and manages innovation to reality.
  • Demonstrate a “servant-leader” approach while bringing deep subject matter expertise
Qualifications
  • Requires a minimum of 10+ years of progressively increasing responsibility in a product management or equivalent role managing large, complex, direct response website(s)
  • Proven track record of launching successful web or mobile products
  • Understanding of software testing methodologies and software development life cycle process
  • In-depth knowledge of the product development and evaluation process.  Exposure to Agile development a must.
  • Experience developing business use cases and strategic planning
  • Understanding of A/B and Multi-variate test design and execution, and analytical tools
  • Comprehensive experience with UX design, customer research, and user experience best practices – including the creation of detailed, annotated wireframes
  • Knowledge of current web and mobile technologies, and familiarity with how the digital ecosystem is evolving
  • In depth knowledge and experience with commercial enterprise Content Management Systems (CMS) such as: Adobe Experience Cloud, SDL Tridion, Opentext, Oracle and Sitecore.
  • Experience implementing SEO best practices
  • Knowledge of site analytics tools such as Adobe Analytics and/or Google Analytics
  • Requires strong collaboration and interpersonal skills to be effective managing through a highly matrixed organization
  • Skills required include business acumen, organizational assessment, creativity, interpersonal skills, and quantitative analytical abilities.
  • Outstanding communicator and comfortable interacting with a diverse group of technical and non-technical people
  • Results-oriented, self-starter with passion for user experience, technology and the internet
  • A strategic mindset that allows you to prioritize projects, launches, and features, and balance immediate requirements with a long-term vision
  • Must have experience with personalization, 1:1 approaches/data capture techniques (ie. email, addressable media, dynamic web), application of legal/privacy terms & conditions

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

  • The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. ​

  • We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

  • This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs. ​

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community.  Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled. 

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AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas: immunology, oncology, neuroscience, eye care, virology, women's health, and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn.

Industry

Scientific research and development services

Company size

10,000+ Employees

Headquarters location

North Chicago, IL, US

Year founded

2013