Digital Marketing Manager

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 5 months ago

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Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own our search strategy end-to-end, from technical site audits and content optimization to managing Google Ads campaigns for thousands of industrial equipment listings
  • Own and execute our technical SEO strategy, including crawl health, site architecture, indexation, Core Web Vitals, structured data/schema markup, and internal linking across a large-scale listing marketplace
  • Conduct ongoing keyword research targeting industrial equipment categories, machinery types, and buyer intent queries
  • Optimize listing pages, category pages, and static content for on-page SEO factors
  • Build and manage a content strategy (blog, guides, landing pages) to capture informational and commercial search queries
  • Manage and grow our backlink profile through outreach, partnerships, and digital PR
  • Monitor rankings, organic traffic, and conversions using Google Search Console, GA4, and third-party tools like Ahrefs or Semrush
  • Identify and resolve crawl errors, duplicate content, thin pages, and other technical issues at scale

Requirements

  • 3 - 5+ years of hands-on experience in SEO and PPC, ideally at a marketplace, e-commerce site, or large content-heavy website
  • Proven track record of growing organic traffic and managing profitable paid search campaigns
  • Strong technical SEO skills — you're comfortable in Search Console, can read a crawl report, and understand how a site with hundreds of thousands of URLs works
  • Proficiency with tools like Google Ads, Google Analytics 4, Google Search Console, Ahrefs or Semrush, Screaming Frog, and Google Tag Manager
  • Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and take full ownership of projects
  • Strong analytical mindset, you make decisions based on data, not hunches
  • Excellent written communication skills for ad copy and content briefs
  • Familiarity with B2B or industrial markets is a strong plus, but not required

Preferred

  • Experience with large-scale or programmatic SEO (optimizing hundreds of thousands of listing pages)
  • Familiarity with schema markup for product/listing pages
  • Basic HTML/CSS knowledge
  • Experience with email marketing or marketing automation

Benefits

  • Health/Dental Benefits
  • Hybrid Flexibility
  • Direct access to ownership and real decision-making authority
  • A stable, established brand with nearly 100 years of industry history and a massive opportunity to modernize and grow digitally
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Surplus Record

Surplus Record Machinery and Equipment Directory is a leading independent business directory and online marketplace for new, used, and surplus machine tools, machinery, and industrial equipment in the United States. Founded in 1924, it began as a printed monthly directory and became widely known as the "bible of the used and surplus capital equipment industry." Listings were made available electronically as early as the 1980s, well before the modern internet era.Today, Surplus Record features hundreds of thousands of industrial assets across virtually every manufacturing sector, including metalworking and fabricating machine tools, woodworking equipment, chemical and process equipment, cranes, air compressors, pumps, motors, circuit breakers, generators, transformers, turbines, and more. Over 2,000 businesses advertise with Surplus Record, helping industrial assets get back into productive use while allowing buyers to save significant money by purchasing used, surplus, or rebuilt equipment.

Founded in 1924
Chicago, Illinois, USA
18 employees (6 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
207.2K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$4.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
63.1%
Direct
28.9%
Referral
5.1%
Social
1.1%
Paid
1.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~18

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
6 (33% of company)