SEO Manager

What You'll Do Here

• Lead SEO strategies for your clients - including execution, adaptation, and ongoing evaluation
• Drive keyword research, gap analysis, and competitive audits
• Help evolve our SEO processes, templates, and quality standards
• Oversee technical SEO initiatives - including site structure, internal linking, and on-page optimization - to improve crawlability, indexation, and overall site performance
• Collaborate with content, design, development, and analytics teams to ensure SEO best practices are integrated throughout the organization
• Partner closely with our Content and PR teams to align on-page, authority, and editorial efforts
• Provide regular reports and presentations on SEO performance, insights, and recommendations to senior leadership and other stakeholders
• Analyze and monitor performance, identify trends, and develop data-driven insights to guide decision-making and strategy adjustments
• Provide mentorship to junior team members and contribute to a culture of knowledge sharing
• Create and adapt SEO narratives and tactics to the AI landscape, ensuring future-forward SEO, not just the SEO playbooks of yesterday

What We Need

• A Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, or a related field
• 4+ years of SEO experience (agency, or a hybrid of agency + freelance/consulting)
• Demonstrated expertise in technical SEO: auditing, internal linking, schema, pagination, JS rendering, and CWV remediation
• Proven strength in keyword research and content strategy
• Hands-on experience with on-page optimization
• Strong client-facing communication and presentation skills
• Reporting and performance storytelling - turning data into a narrative
• Experience creating or optimizing repeatable SEO processes
• Familiarity with core SEO tools: GA4, GSC, Ahrefs, SEMrush, Screaming Frog
• Strong organizational skills, and experience in project management platforms like Asana
• Experience optimizing for AI / LLMs
• Experience working with link-building vendors is a plus
• Experience applying AI-driven automation within SEO workflows is a plus
• Experience with process standardization at scale is a plus

Compensation

Salary: $75,000 - $85,000 (Pay range is based on a market reference point and potential job offers may vary based on the skills, education, experience and geographic location of the individual candidate. The compensation range reflects base rate only.)

Compensation will be commensurate with experience. Additionally, for eligible full-time employees, we offer a competitive benefits package including medical insurance, dental insurance, and vision insurance; a flexible spending account; voluntary life and accident plans; and a 401(k) retirement plan with matching.

We have six office locations in the US: San Diego, California, Los Angeles, California, Covington, Kentucky, Denver, Colorado, Nashville, Tennessee and Charleston, South Carolina. We're seeking local candidates (or those open to relocation) who are able to work collaboratively with us in one of our office's; however, based on business needs and unique job functions, some roles may be eligible for remote work.