Search Marketing Lead / Director

Kansas City, MO (On-site)

$72K/yr – $92K/yrDirector/Executive4+ years expFull time

Posted 5 months ago

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Job Summary

The role leads search marketing efforts for clients, balancing hands-on execution with team delegation. It emphasizes SEM and SEO assessments, strategy development, and ongoing optimization, plus client communication. Requirements include 3+ years agency experience and proficiency in Google Ads and Google Business Profile/Google Search Console; preferred skills in analytics and SEO tools.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • We’re hiring a Search Marketing Lead to guide and execute search marketing campaigns for our clients as a player coach who is hands-on in expertise-driven aspects of campaigns while delegating more granular tasks to team members.
  • Supporting VOLTAGE’s Vice President of Strategy in business development efforts, particularly by reviewing search marketing-related proposals to ensure realistic expectations for deliverables, communication, and performance are set.
  • Assessing a client’s SEM and SEO efforts—including identifying problems, documenting solutions, and presenting findings to the client—in the following categories:
  • Search Engine Marketing (primarily in Google Ads)
  • The media-related factors that can help or hurt a client’s potential to generate impressions and clicks in search engines.
  • The conversion rate-related factors that can help or hurt a website’s potential to convert qualified users into leads.
  • Search Engine Optimization (primarily in Google Search)
  • The content-related, or “on-page”, factors that can help or hurt a website’s potential to generate impressions and clicks in search engines and LLMs.
  • The local-related factors that can help or hurt a client’s local listings, reputation, and performance for localized searches in search engines.
  • The technical-related, or “off-page”, factors that can help or hurt a website’s ability to be crawled and indexed by search engines and LLMs.
  • The conversion rate-related factors that can help or hurt a website’s potential to convert qualified users into leads.
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Founded in 2008
Louisville, Colorado, USA
25 employees (4 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
3.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
49.8%
Direct
32.3%
Referral
4.8%
Social
11.9%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~25

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
3 (12% of company)