Responsibilities

• Manage a distributed team of SEO specialists, providing daily direction, coaching, and constructive feedback.
• Assign tasks and balance workloads across your team to ensure every goal is met.
• Lead daily or weekly check-ins to align on priorities and proactively remove any "blockers" slowing the team down.
• Train team members on SOPs, quality expectations, and client-specific nuances.
• Google Business Profile (GBP) management: updates, categories, posts, services, photos, and basic optimization.
• Citation & listings management: auditing, building, and maintaining consistent NAP across platforms.
• Local on-page SEO: meta data, location pages, internal linking, structured data basics, and content improvements.
• Local content support: assisting with outlines/briefs and ensuring content matches keyword intent back and location targeting.
• Backlinking: develop and execute backlink acquisition strategies with the goal of attaining relevant backlinks that strengthen authority and improve search rankings.
• Keep the SEO Manager informed on project status, capacity constraints, and potential risks.

Requirements

• 3 years minimum of SEO experience, with strong familiarity in local SEO and multi-location businesses.
• 1+ year experience managing a team (or acting as a lead with QA/ownership responsibilities).
• Strong understanding of SEO fundamentals: keyword research, on-page SEO, local SEO, basic technical SEO, backlinking, and reporting.
• Experience managing workflow and deliverables across multiple client accounts.
• Comfortable working across time zones and building clear systems for accountability.
• Excellent written communication skills (clear, structured, detail-oriented).
• Strong organizational skills and ability to prioritize under deadlines.
• Familiarity with tools typically used in SEO including: Google Analytics, Google Search Console, Google Business Profile, BrightLocal, AgencyAnalytics, Ahrefs/Semrush/Moz, Screaming Frog, project management tools (i.e. Asana).

Preferred

• Deep experience with citation tools and directory management at scale.
• Strong Q/A background (checklists, SOP building, error reduction systems).
• Experience training remote teams or managing remote-first production workflows.
• Content briefing experience for local service pages and location pages.
• Experience working in an agency environment with recurring monthly and quarterly deliverables.

Benefits

• Standard 40-hour workweek with occasional flexibility to meet sprint deadlines
• Competitive salary, health and dental insurance, life and disability, 401K, supplemental insurance, FSAs, flexible paid vacation, days, 11 paid holidays and much more!
• Friendly, collaborative, and fun team!