Manager, SEO

Role type: Full-time
Reporting to: Senior Director, SEO
Estimated Start: September 2026
Location: Hybrid (3 days/week) in New York, New York | Arlington, Texas | Los Angeles, California | Boca Raton, Florida
Work Authorization: This role is open to US Citizens/Permanent Residents. We are unable to sponsor any work authorizations for this role.

About the role

As a manager in SEO you’ll deliver best-in-class work for clients. You’ll apply your SEO knowledge and experience so that you have a positive impact on client deliverables and the wider team around you. You will help to define the campaign delivery plan, including objectives and ways in which work can be successful or optimized further. You will also generate and promote innovative new concepts to clients applying our test and learn approach and share successes across the practice by identifying and improving guidelines, playbooks, and processes including opportunities to automate work.

About the company

Brainlabs is culture-first. You’ve probably heard other companies describe themselves as people, clients, or profit first – but we see people, clients, and profit as the building blocks of our ecosystem. Culture powers all three and we know that when the ecosystem is balanced, we all win! That's why the culture we cultivate is a culture of winning together.

To learn more about what it’s like to be a Brainlabber, check out our culture code.

Responsibilities

• Using your practice knowledge, deliver highly successful, brilliant campaigns that outperform KPIs, to budget and on-time.
• Define campaign delivery plans and measurement targets.
• Effectively track and optimize campaigns.
• Act as a point of contact for our clients on day-to-day tasks and deliverables.
• Develop and implement, as well as follow guidelines and processes contributing to ideas around automation or process improvement.
• Actively contribute to developing best-practice roadmaps so that our SEO offering is continually developing.
• Mentor others across the practice helping to grow capability and knowledge.

Requirements

• Strong SEO delivery track record with 2+ years of experience.
• Passionate about your craft.
• Demonstrable success in optimizing SEO campaigns and work through automation, processes, and technology adoption/development.
• A good understanding of how other channels work and optimize together.
• Confident, dynamic, engaging, and authentic communicator who cares about the quality of work and continuous learning.
• Passionate about growing the knowledge of those around you.
• Excellent presentation skills and strong data analysis and reporting skills.
• Strong attention to detail, methodical, and process-oriented.

How you succeed

• Live our culture code every day.
• Effective campaign creation and delivery metrics.
• Internal targets/metrics on technology adoption and process optimization met.
• Hit our quality assurance metrics on all campaigns you lead.
• Client satisfaction targets being met (internal & external).
• Learning certifications created and met across the practice.
• Active involvement in mentoring less experienced SEO colleagues.

Pay

Current position range: $75,000—$105,000 USD