SEO Strategist

USA (Remote)

$55K/yr – $80K/yrMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own client SEO programs from strategy through execution, balancing budgets, timelines, and lead outcomes while collaborating across teams and educating clients on what works across industries.

  • Strategic SEO ownership: define and drive optimization plans with budget-aware delivery and measurable impact on traffic, rankings, and conversions.
  • Client success and reporting: translate business priorities into SEO actions and communicate progress via email, calls, and meetings.
  • Cross-functional execution: align with marketing and product teams to ensure SEO supports client goals and pipeline from qualified leads to sales.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Plan, develop, and execute advanced search engine optimization strategies tailored to client needs, ensuring top-tier results within the allocated budget and timeframe.
  • Measure and report on SEO performance, including traffic, rankings, quality of conversions and other trends to our clients through email, phone calls, and in-person meetings.
  • Collaborate with your immediate team and cross-departmentally on digital marketing strategies that are aligned with your client’s business goals.
  • Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of client’s business priorities and how they translate into SEO strategies to deliver qualified leads and/or sales for your Essentials clients.
  • Conduct in-depth competitor analysis to identify industry trends, best practices, and opportunities for improvement in key business areas.
  • Ability to develop, implement, and monitor budgets to ensure efficient allocation of resources, including effectively managing surplus and overage balances.
  • Meet expectations of timelines, communication, results and meaningful deliverables to contribute to company and team retention goals.
  • Exemplify strong communication skills, instilling confidence in clients through trust-building interactions and via email towards company and team communication goals to strengthen and maintain client relationships.
  • Grow your business acumen by exploring client industries, staying on top of trends, and using insights to drive more innovative strategies.
  • Accountable to outlined client, team, & company targets for your individual performance and portfolio of accounts and will report on these metrics weekly/monthly as they relate to company goals.
  • Strategically plan and collaborate with your Lead and with other teammates across the organization to manage scopes, workloads, budgets, and client priorities.
  • Stay passionate about staying "in-the-know" on the latest digital marketing trends, including Google algorithm shifts and industry updates.
  • Continuously enhance your knowledge independently and also through ongoing BSchool training to build credibility & business acumen with both teammates and clients and share your insights.
  • Utilize appropriate SEO tools such as Screaming Frog, Ahrefs, Brightedge, Accuranker, or related tools to enhance, develop and evaluate optimization strategies & effectiveness
  • Ability to work flexibly in a dynamic and changing environment.
  • Excellent creativity and adaptability. Must be self-motivated and independent, well organized, able to do hands-on work with minimum supervision, and work well with all staff levels.
  • Other duties, as assigned.

Requirements

  • Minimum 3 years of SEO experience. Agency experience preferred.
  • Solid understanding of leveraging and optimizing search intent throughout the consumer/buyer journey.
  • Experience working and communicating with small to medium sized clients.
  • Critical thinking, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills.
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate to Clients & Teammates in an approachable, credible manner both verbally and in writing as this is a client-facing role.
  • Organizational skills with the ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects, with a sense of urgency to get things done
  • Exhibit basic understanding of conversion optimization.
  • Demonstrate expertise & understanding in using spreadsheet functions and formulas to analyze, identify trends, and summarize data.
  • Experience with Google Analytics, Google Ads, Google Search Console, Botify, DeepCrawl, Screaming Frog, SEOClarity, Brightedge and other website analytics and marketing applications
  • Basic HTML, CSS, and content management system (CMS) experience like WordPress, Magento, Shopify, Big Commerce, Modx
  • SEO experience with large, consumer facing national websites with 1,000+ pages.
  • Experienced in collaborating with Development teams to troubleshoot, test, and resolve technical SEO issues, improving site health and search positions.
  • Consultative, analytical background through agency or freelance contracts.
Benefits
  • High-character, fun, and cohesive work culture
  • Competitive base salary
  • PTO that is genuinely encouraged
  • Affordable, low-deductible health insurance plans
  • Supplemental benefits, including employer-paid life insurance, short & long term disability insurance
  • 401k with company match
  • Remote work flexibility
  • Supportive, transparent, and accessible leadership that welcomes ideas, insights & feedback
  • Professional/individual development stipend
  • Salary Description: $55,000.00 - $80,000.00
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OuterBox

At OuterBox, we believe growth is oxygen. We think outside the box to grow our clients' businesses through digital marketing. Growth is the backbone of every client partnership and the power behind maintaining a solid team. We're a top-rated performance marketing agency offering website design and development, SEO, paid media, CRO, email marketing, eCommerce strategies, marketing analytics, and more. Since 2004, we've helped hundreds of B2B and B2C businesses grow their revenue and operations. We've also helped nurture digital marketing experts through various career stages.We're all in, all the time. That means we pour our integrity, strategies, hard-earned industry know-how, and genuine care for your success (client or team member) into everything we do. We deliver what your business needs to thrive online, driving leads and revenue. And when you're part of the OuterBox team, you know you're at a place that celebrates your uniqueness and supports your professional development. So whether you're a future client or team member, you get the picture—at OuterBox, we deliver results-driven online marketing with a people-first culture that grows business revenue.

Founded in 2004
Akron, Ohio, USA
347 employees (173 in marketing)

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