SEO Team Lead

USA (Remote)

$95K/yr – $115K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 7 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own a client-centric growth portfolio with revenue expansion, team leadership, and a data-driven SEO mandate that scales through hiring the SEO team and AI-enabled efficiency.

  • Grow revenue by retaining clients and pursuing up-sell/cross-sell opportunities.
  • Lead and develop junior team members and shape the SEO hiring pipeline.
  • Partner with C-level clients on strategy and long-term business impact.

Job Description

Responsibilities
  • You will be a key player in growing divisional revenue, primarily through retaining your portfolio of clients, with a healthy dose of up-selling and cross-selling when appropriate
  • You will build and maintain strong client relationships rooted in empathy, transparency, with the desire to help them exceed their goals
  • You will manage and shape the development of more junior team members, understanding their goals and guiding them towards new growth opportunities
  • You will help define the SEO team of tomorrow, hopping in on sourcing, interviewing, and selecting new members for your awesome team
  • You will drive thought leadership through sharing knowledge about the latest industry trends, tests and trials, both with Seer’s clients and the larger digital marketing community
  • You understand that AI has a critical role to play in how we service clients, so you’ll leverage new tools to drive efficiencies in not only your own workflows, but test and share learnings for the benefit of the greater team
  • You engage with C-level executives with ease, forging partnerships built on trust and transparency
  • You love talking high-level strategy and illustrating the broader business impact beyond clicks and conversions, but aren’t afraid to jump in the weeds
  • You’ll roll up your sleeves in a heartbeat to help a team member understand how it’s done
  • 90 Day Goals: By Day 30, you will have completed division training and begun to support at least 2 impactful client initiatives and at least 2 direct reports
  • 90 Day Goals: By Day 60, you will be up and running at full capacity, supporting a full book of business and team independently
  • 90 Day Goals: By Day 90, you be ready to expand your portfolio by kicking off 1 new client or taking on 1 new direct report
Requirements
  • Hands-on SEO agency experience across Content Strategy, Enterprise SEO, PR, Paid Media, and/or Analytics. You drive integrated strategies, leveraging AI where appropriate to drive efficiencies, measuring the effectiveness (rankings, traffic, conversions, revenue) and always backing up your decisions with data
  • Superb client management skills. You drive conversation with C-level executives comfortably, educating and empowering those who don’t “get” digital, while always connecting tactics to business goals
  • You have strong conflict resolution skills and it shows through your ability to diffuse high-intensity situations for both clients and team members
  • Consistent track record in seeing opportunities for account growth and driving increased revenue
  • You’ve got extraordinary leadership skills and are dedicated to helping the team you manage grow. You’re no newbie to managing teams and are comfortable with 4+ direct reports
  • You have an eye for great talent and know how to get them to join your team
  • US-based hours; remote candidate in continental US preferred
Benefits
  • Remote-first agency
  • Benefit highlights
  • Certified B Corporation Seer Interactive is a full-service search marketing agency for challenger brands that want to make an impact through digital marketing.
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Seer Interactive

3.6 Glassdoor

Certified B Corporation™ Seer Interactive is a full-service search marketing agency for challenger brands that want to make an impact through digital marketing. We help you get measurable results that set you apart from the competition and impact your bottom line. Our competitive advantage is our ability to deliver insights that are faster and better than anyone else. We do this through a combination of our People Philosophy and Proprietary Technology. On the people side, the Seer team embodies our core values of uplifting others, committing to the truth, challenging their ego, and striving to be better than yesterday. On the technology side, we have Seer Signals, our cloud-based data platform, which connects paid and organic search data in one experience. This platform delivers nearly real-time insights that are customized for your business and directly impact your bottom line. We like to build tools, host webinars and create resources to help you, your business and your audience. You can find out more about our company, keep up to date on industry updates and more at www.seerinteractive.com.

Founded in 2002
Philadelphia, PA, US
192 employees (74 in marketing)
59% recommend to a friend
73% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
108.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
46.5%
Direct
41.2%
Referral
8.5%
Social
2.7%
Paid
0.9%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~187

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
71 (38% of company)
Median Career Experience
10 years
Median Tenure
5.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
4