Senior Manager, SEO and Content Strategy

USA (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive the SEO and content strategy for Sermo to grow physician registrations and high-value HCPs.

  • Own and coordinate SEO and content strategy to drive physician registrations and high-value HCP growth.
  • Must-have: 7+ years in SEO/organic growth with measurable impact.
  • Standout: Cross-functional leadership across product, engineering, and marketing in a fast-growth setup.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own SEO and content strategy across Sermo’s organic acquisition efforts, with a strong focus on driving verified physician registrations and high-value HCP growth.
  • Develop and prioritize an organic growth roadmap based on search demand, audience intent, business priorities, competitive opportunities, and conversion potential.
  • Lead physician-focused editorial strategy, including high-intent acquisition content, pillar and cluster strategies, authority-building content, and research-driven initiatives.
  • Identify opportunities to improve technical SEO fundamentals, including site architecture, internal linking, indexation, schema, and overall discoverability.
  • Partner with product, engineering, and marketing stakeholders to improve SEO implementation, site performance, and on-page conversion opportunities.
  • Help shape the strategy for affiliate and content partner relationships that support organic growth, referral traffic, backlinks, and qualified member acquisition.
  • Guide the development of content briefs, topic prioritization, and strategic direction for contractors and other content contributors.
  • Support authority-building initiatives such as research reports, physician insight content, citation-worthy assets, and other programs that can strengthen both organic visibility and commercial demand.
  • Analyze organic performance across rankings, non-branded traffic, registrations, conversion rates, backlinks, and other leading indicators to identify opportunities and inform decisions.
  • Collaborate with analytics and marketing partners to improve reporting, measure impact, and connect SEO performance to member acquisition and business value.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in SEO, organic growth, content strategy, or related growth marketing roles, with a strong track record of driving measurable business impact.
  • Demonstrated strength in SEO and content strategy, including intent-driven keyword planning, editorial roadmap development, competitive analysis, and organic growth prioritization.
  • Strong understanding of technical SEO principles, including site structure, internal linking, schema, crawling, indexing, and search performance fundamentals.
  • Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to use data to identify opportunities, solve problems, and make clear recommendations.
  • Experience improving on-page conversion performance and aligning SEO efforts with broader CRO and acquisition goals.
  • Ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, product, analytics, and marketing teams to move initiatives forward effectively.
  • Experience guiding contractors, contributors, or external partners to deliver high-quality work against a clear strategic direction.
  • Comfortable operating in a fast-growth environment with a high degree of ownership, initiative, and accountability.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate SEO and content insights into clear business implications and next steps.

Preferred

  • Healthcare experience or familiarity with marketing to physicians or other HCP audiences is preferred.

Benefits

  • - Flexible PTO
  • - Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • - Fitness Reimbursements
  • - Commuter pre-tax benefits
  • - Company paid lunch twice a week
  • - The opportunity to revolutionize real world medicine and amplify the voice of physicians globally
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Sermo

3.6 Glassdoor

Sermo turns physician experience, expertise, and observations into actionable insights for the global healthcare community. Engaging with more than 1 million HCPs across 150 countries, we provide physicians with a social platform and unique community that fosters impactful peer-to-peer collaboration & discussions about issues that are important to them and their patients. Sermo offers on demand access to physicians via a suite of proprietary technology to provide business intelligence that benefits patients, pharmaceutical, healthcare partners and the medical community at large. Doctors and other HCPs can sign up today at https://sermo.link/sign-up-li

Founded in 2000
New York, New York, USA
635 employees (64 in marketing)
64% recommend to a friend
65% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.2M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$18.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
25.5%
Direct
69%
Referral
4.1%
Social
0.6%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~635

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
52 (8% of company)

Funding

Total Funding
$101M
Last Raise
$35M
Private Equity, 7 years ago

Funding History

  • Feb 2019
    Private Equity
  • Apr 2013
    Series Unknown • $35M
  • Sep 2011
    Series Unknown • $25M

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