SEO Manager

San Diego, CA (Hybrid)

$75K/yr – $85K/yrMid Level4+ years expFull time

Posted 3 days ago

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Job Description

Responsibilities

  • 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

Requirements

  • 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

Preferred

  • 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
  • Bonus points if bilingual in Spanish and/or Portuguese

Benefits

  • medical insurance, dental insurance, and vision insurance
  • a flexible spending account
  • voluntary life and accident plans
  • a 401(k) retirement plan with matching
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Mindgruve

We are a modern media, commerce, and data technology company comprised of strategists, creatives, media and commerce experts, data scientists, and engineers driven by one common purpose — to accelerate business growth through data-driven marketing, creative, and commerce. With over 400 experts worldwide, our teams deliver full-funnel, predictive marketing solutions for global brands.

Founded in 2001
San Diego, California, USA
380 employees (152 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
11.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
33.1%
Direct
49.5%
Referral
7.6%
Social
8.1%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~385

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
109 (29% of company)
Median Career Experience
9 years
Median Tenure
2.1 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
11

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