Associate Director, SEO Specialists

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Company Overview

OuterBox is a performance marketing agency founded in 2004. It provides website design and development, SEO, paid media, CRO, email marketing, eCommerce strategy, and marketing analytics services to B2B and B2C businesses.

About the Role

The Associate Director, SEO Specialists owns the day-to-day operations of the SEO Specialist team. The role combines people and operational leadership with hands-on SEO expertise across technical execution, web launches, audits, pre-sales support, and delivery of signed SEO products.

Responsibilities

• Lead the SEO Specialist team's daily operations, including task intake, triage, prioritization, staffing, workload distribution, quality, and delivery timelines.
• Manage and mentor Lead SEO Specialists and SEO Specialists, including the Specialist responsible for pre-launch SEO on web projects.
• Oversee technical setup, migration checklists, redirect mapping, information architecture reviews, and other pre-launch SEO deliverables.
• Scope, resource, oversee, and quality-review SEO audits, pre-sales support, and signed SEO products.
• Partner with the Director of SEO Operations on capacity planning, staffing forecasts, escalations, and department priorities.
• Establish and enforce SOPs and QA standards while serving as the escalation point for complex technical SEO issues.
• Collaborate with SEO Strategy, Content, UX, Development, Sales, Project Management, and Media teams.
• Manage short-term SEO projects and oversee the internal link-building service, including team resources and partner databases.

Qualifications

• 5-7+ years of SEO experience, including technical SEO, audits, pre-launch and migration SEO, and pre-sales support.
• Proven experience managing a team, including other managers or leads.
• Strong understanding of the complete SEO lifecycle: strategy, execution, QA, reporting, and refinement.
• Experience supporting pitches, proposals, RFPs, or project scoping with Sales or New Business teams.
• Ability to manage concurrent projects, competing priorities, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for client-facing and pre-sales settings.
• High proficiency with Google Analytics, Google Search Console, Screaming Frog, Botify or DeepCrawl, SEOClarity or BrightEdge, and standard SEO toolsets.
• Advanced spreadsheet skills and working knowledge of HTML, CSS, WordPress, Shopify, Magento, BigCommerce, and other common CMS platforms.

Pay

Salary range: $85,000-$105,000

Benefits

• Health insurance and healthcare coverage
• 401(k) and retirement savings
• Generous paid time off
• Flexible scheduling and a remote-first culture
• Professional development opportunities
• Employee referral program
• Additional unspecified perks