Richard James Long

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Digital marketing manager with 10+ years driving full-funnel digital strategy and hands-on execution across SEO, GEO/LLM (generative engine optimisation), paid, email, content, social, and web.

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Digital marketing manager with 10+ years driving full-funnel digital strategy and hands-on execution across SEO, GEO/LLM (generative engine optimisation), paid, email, content, social, and web. Leads end-to-end marketing for founder-led and enterprise clients, owning strategy, campaign execution, and ROI reporting to executive stakeholders.

Architects agentic AI workflows (Claude, OpenAI, OpenClaw) to automate and scale marketing operations, connecting digital activity to measurable commercial outcomes across multiple industries including financial services, SaaS, B2B enterprise, wellbeing, and consumer services.

  • Joined April 2026

Industry experience

  • Software & Internet
  • Media & Entertainment
  • Professional Services
  • Education
  • Consumer Goods
  • Gaming
  • Healthcare
  • Energy & Utilities
  • Retail
  • Financial Services
  • Other

Projects · 1

An autonomous execution engine that collapses the distance between a single keyword and a 12-month dominant content strategy.

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Traditional content strategy requires dozens of manual hours: keyword research, competitor gap analysis, seasonality mapping, and brief writing. Agencies often charge thousands for strategy documents that are static by the time they are delivered.

Content Strategy Pro is built on an agentic architecture using Gemini 3.0 Flash and Claude 3.5 Sonnet. It doesn’t just list keywords; it builds a multi-dimensional topical mind map. It calculates the semantic entropy of your competitors and identifies the exact white space your brand needs to occupy to win the AI retrieval loop.

How it works:

  1. Recursive Discovery: The agent crawls your seed topic to identify primary, secondary, and tertiary clusters.

  2. Competitive Gap Mapping: It reverse-engineers the top 3 ranking URLs to find talking points they’ve missed—these become your competitive advantage.

  3. Semantic Infrastructure: It generates full H-tag structures, meta data, and rich-content suggestions (video chapters, short-form ideas) for every piece of the calendar.

Work experience· 12 roles

Head of Marketing · Switching Made SimpleMar 2026 – Present · 9 mos

– End-to-End Marketing Ownership: Own the entire marketing function as fractional Head of Marketing for a growing national consumer switching and comparison service in the health insurance industry — brand, strategy, budget, and hands-on delivery across every channel. – Brand Storytelling & Video: Producing a promotional mini-documentary (concept, filming, and edit) for YouTube, social, and promotional campaigns to build brand awareness and trust. – Budget & Delivery Management: Set and manage the marketing budget and coordinate freelancers and suppliers, keeping delivery on-brief, on-time, and on-budget. – Social, Content & Web: Lead social media and content marketing, and designed and developed the company's website, owning web build and conversion optimisation. – Agentic AI Marketing Team: Built an agentic AI marketing team for content production and publishing — continuous delivery at pace with a 'human-in-the-loop' methodology to uphold quality and establish AI governance.

Head of Marketing · Switching Made SimpleMar 2026 – Present · 9 mos

– End-to-End Marketing Ownership: Own the entire marketing function as fractional Head of Marketing for a growing national consumer switching and comparison service in the health insurance industry — brand, strategy, budget, and hands-on delivery across every channel. – Brand Storytelling & Video: Producing a promotional mini-documentary (concept, filming, and edit) for YouTube, social, and promotional campaigns to build brand awareness and trust. – Budget & Delivery Management: Set and manage the marketing budget and coordinate freelancers and suppliers, keeping delivery on-brief, on-time, and on-budget. – Social, Content & Web: Lead social media and content marketing, and designed and developed the company's website, owning web build and conversion optimisation. – Agentic AI Marketing Team: Built an agentic AI marketing team for content production and publishing — continuous delivery at pace with a 'human-in-the-loop' methodology to uphold quality and establish AI governance.

SEO Manager · Cipher Sports Technology GroupDec 2025 – Jul 2026 · 8 mos

– Enterprise Scale & Organic Growth: Directed technical SEO and content strategy for an enterprise sports-media portfolio (Dimers.com) across 650,000+ URLs, defining global search KPIs across Google Top Stories, Discover, and AI conversational surfaces. – Agentic AI Workforce: Engineered an autonomous agentic AI workforce to scale editorial output — automating theme generation, data extraction, taxonomy classification, and direct CMS publishing without engineering dependency. – YMYL Compliance & Technical SEO: Navigated strict YMYL requirements, resolving critical technical debt and establishing a highly compliant E-E-A-T foundation across a large, dynamic content library.

SEO Manager · Cipher Sports Technology GroupDec 2025 – Jul 2026 · 8 mos
Digital Marketing Manager · Amaze — Sovereign AI, Cloud & DataNov 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo
Digital Marketing Manager · Amaze — Sovereign AI, Cloud & DataNov 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo
Digital Marketing Manager · Mirosuna — Mindfulness StudioAug 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos
Digital Marketing Manager · Mirosuna — Mindfulness StudioAug 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos

Education· 7

SEO Specialisation · University of California, Davis2020
Firstline Leadership Qualification · Suncorp Group2015
Google Data Analytics Certificate · Google2024
Digital Marketing Specialisation · University of Illinois2023

Certifications and awards

Google Data Analyst Certificate2024
Firstline Leadership Qualification2015

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