Senior Organic Search Strategist (Remote, £38-41k)

UK (Remote)

£38K/yr – £41K/yrSenior Level4+ years expFull time

Posted 4 days ago

Job Summary

Own the organic search strategy for a portfolio of clients, translating goals into a structured program of work and coordinating with Content, Writing, and Design teams while leveraging AI tooling to drive performance.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Owning client strategy: plan and ensure GEO strategies for your portfolio of clients; translate understanding into a clear programme of work; brief into Content and Writing teams; keep it pointed at outcomes.
  • Piloting our technology: use our proprietary AI search tooling day-to-day to identify the right work for each client; feed back on what works to improve the tool.
  • Driving performance: be across performance for every client; proactively driving optimizations; spot underperforming pages, competitor moves, or AI engine changes and plan next steps.
  • Supporting our sales team: provide strategic data and analysis for prospective new clients; quickly grasp needs and present compelling information to the sales team.
  • Hands-on strategic work: routine updates and analysis; in-depth work like full-site technical SEO audits, CRO audits; move between high-level strategy and hands-on work with time management and quality.

Requirements

  • At least 4-5 years of experience in SEO, organic search strategy, or a similar client-facing strategic role, ideally in an agency or consultancy environment
  • Strong analytical skills, a critical eye for data and processes, and the confidence to make a clear recommendation from imperfect data
  • Hands-on experience with technical SEO audits and CRO is a strong advantage
  • Working understanding of GEO -- and a genuine curiosity about how AI search actually works
  • Strong critical thinking; ability to spot gaps or friction within current processes and help drive improvements
  • Ability to translate a client's commercial goals into a programme of search work that will actually deliver against them

Preferred

  • Soft skills: Confident, evidence-led communicator; Receptive to feedback with no ego and solutions-oriented; High level of self-awareness, a 'people person'; Self-driven work ethic.

Benefits

  • Compensation
  • - This is a full-time, 100% remote role. You'll be a full team member, and involved in our team projects, work, and meetups
  • - Competitive salary with pension benchmarked to UK rates and based on experience
  • - 28 days of paid holiday
  • - An additional 1 paid holiday day a year with each year of tenure, up to a maximum of 5 additional days
  • - 4-day work week, once a month
  • - Genuinely flexible working
  • - Regular team retreats (:1 per year); last was Istanbul, previously in Edinburgh, Oxford, Madrid, and Budapest
  • - Time and budget for learning and development
  • - Enhanced maternity/paternity leave, and sick pay
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Mission: We help kids and families build healthy relationships so they can write their own story. Ellipsis brings together Youth Homes of Mid-America (YHMA) and Youth Emergency Services & Shelter (YESS), both storied Iowa institutions with long histories of helping kids succeed. As Ellipsis, we create a community where kids and families are valued, hopeful, healthy and together. Our trained and compassionate staff members assess individual needs and create a plan to overcome obstacles. Explore our programs to see how we’re creating new outcomes for those who need them most at EllipsisIowa.org.

Founded in 2021
Johnston, Iowa, USA
126 employees (8 in marketing)
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£38K/yr – £41K/yr

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