Organic Search Lead

UK (Remote)

£37K/yr – £55K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 2 hrs ago

Job Summary

You will own the Organic and AI Search strategy across a portfolio, driving audience research, technical SEO, content strategy, and cross-functional collaboration, with leadership in reporting, mentoring, and client-facing storytelling.

  • Own end-to-end Organic & AI Search strategy across a portfolio.
  • Lead keyword, content and AI workflow initiatives to drive growth and authority.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the Organic & AI Search strategy end-to-end for your portfolio, from audience research through to measurement and reporting.
  • Lead AI Search strategy - including AI citation research, query fan-out analysis, and building brand authority to earn citations in AI Overviews and LLM answers.
  • Deliver against all three Organic Search propositions: Traditional Search, Unified Search (in collaboration with Paid Media) and Total Search.
  • Conduct deep audience research using SparkToro and other behavioural tools to identify where client audiences spend their time online - and shape platform-agnostic strategies accordingly.
  • Lead technical SEO work across your accounts, including internal linking audits, page speed audits, and site migration support.
  • Own content strategy for existing and new content - both re-optimisation to recover lost ground and new content to drive market growth in emerging categories.
  • Contribute to authority-building work, collaborating with the Digital PR team.
  • Lead keyword research and meta optimisation across client accounts, using Ahrefs, SE Ranking, Keywordtool.io and SparkToro.
  • Develop Organic Social content strategies (especially across visual discovery platforms - Pinterest, TikTok, YouTube) to support wider Organic Search presence.
  • Collaborate with Paid Media on Unified Search strategies - identifying cannibalisation, wasted spend and opportunities to replace PPC with Organic.

Requirements

  • Demonstrable senior experience in Organic Search, with the confidence and authority to lead strategy internally and externally.
  • Strong knowledge of both Traditional Search and AI Search - including how to report on, communicate and measure both.
  • Deep technical SEO expertise: internal linking audits, meta optimisation, page speed audits, site migrations.
  • Confident with keyword research, AI citation research and query fan-out analysis.
  • Strong content strategy skills - both re-optimisation of existing content and new content to drive growth in new categories.
  • Experience with authority building / Digital PR as part of a holistic SEO approach.
  • Familiarity with our core toolkit: GA4, GSC, Ahrefs, Screaming Frog, Sitebulb, SparkToro, Keywordtool.io, SE Ranking, Google Tag Manager and Google Data Studio.
  • Experience working with LLMs to create AI workflows for SEO is highly desirable.
  • Confident client-facing presenter - able to build engaging presentations and present to clients and prospects.
  • Comfortable coaching and mentoring more junior team members.

Preferred

  • Desirable: experience in Organic Social content strategy, particularly across visual discovery platforms (Pinterest, TikTok, YouTube).

Benefits

  • 🌎 Remote working - We hire the best people and we trust you to do your job, wherever and whenever that might be. No late slips, no guilt, no bullshit.
  • 🐣 Enhanced parental leave - Family first. When you have a baby (including adoptions), primary caregivers receive ten weeks of fully paid leave, regardless of gender.
  • 🌴 Comprehensive leave options - The freedom to be present in and live your life without having to eat into that precious holiday allowance.
  • 🤑 Profit share scheme - We don’t have crazy commission schemes. Instead, we share our profits with the whole team so everyone gets a cut of the pie when we do well.
  • ❤️ Health and wellbeing first - Creating a progressive, positive culture with subsidised therapy, and a monthly allowance to spend on our priority, you!
  • 🧠 Training and personal development - Personal development plans, training programmes and funding for events, conferences and external degrees or courses to improve your career.
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Hallam

We’re the B2B marketing agency helping brands capture attention, build trust and be chosen before the search begins.By combining brand, performance and insight in one system, we focus on what drives recognition, relevance and commercial results. That includes clear strategy, intelligent creative and marketing shaped to leave a lasting impression.Because in B2B, visibility is just the start. Being chosen comes from being known, understood and respected for what makes you stand apart.That’s how brands grow. And that’s what makes them unforgettable.

Founded in 1999
Nottingham, England, GBR
65 employees (19 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

£37K/yr – £55K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
17 (26% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
33.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
35.4%
Direct
32.5%
Referral
9.1%
Social
6.9%
Paid
5.3%

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Current headcount: ~65

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Organic Search Lead

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