SEO/SEM Marketing Specialist

USA (Remote)

$69K/yr – $84K/yrMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Own and drive integrated paid media, SEO, and AI search strategy across client engagements, translating research into actionable plans and measuring performance across channels.

  • Lead research and strategy development across paid, organic, and AI search to align with client goals.
  • Create integrated reporting linking search, media, and business outcomes for stakeholders.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Strategy
  • Develop integrated paid media, SEO, and AI search strategies that align with client goals, audience needs, and business outcomes.
  • Conduct keyword, audience, competitor, market, SERP, and AI visibility research to identify growth opportunities.
  • Evaluate opportunities to improve visibility, traffic, lead quality, conversion performance, and pipeline impact across paid and organic channels.
  • Develop goals, success metrics, testing priorities, and optimization plans for paid media, SEO, and AI search initiatives.
  • Translate research and performance insights into clear, actionable strategies for clients and internal teams.
  • Performance
  • Plan, monitor, analyze, and optimize paid media and search performance across relevant platforms.
  • Analyze ROAS, cost per conversion, conversion rates, traffic quality, keyword performance, lead quality, and other client-specific KPIs.
  • Evaluate organic, paid, referral, and AI-driven traffic sources to identify trends, opportunities, and areas for improvement.

Requirements

  • Strong understanding of SEO, paid media, search strategy, AI visibility, and the evolving digital search landscape.
  • Experience managing or supporting paid media campaigns, including campaign structure, targeting, budget pacing, testing, and optimization.
  • Strong understanding of technical SEO, on-page SEO, search intent, keyword research, content optimization, and ranking factors.
  • Familiarity with AEO, AI search, answer engines, LLM visibility, or a strong ability to learn quickly in this emerging area.
  • Analytical mindset with the ability to interpret performance data and turn insights into actionable recommendations.
  • Ability to connect paid media, organic search, content performance, conversion paths, and CRM data into a cohesive growth strategy.
  • Strong reporting skills, with the ability to communicate performance clearly to both clients and internal teams.
  • Experience with tools such as Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Search Console, Google Tag Manager, HubSpot, SEMrush, Ahrefs, Screaming Frog, Looker Studio, or similar platforms.
  • Ability to use AI tools thoughtfully to improve research, analysis, reporting, testing, and workflow efficiency while maintaining human judgment and quality control.
  • Strong attention to detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality work.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Short-term and long-term disability coverage
  • Accident insurance
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • 15 paid holidays plus generous PTO
  • Quarterly incentive plan
  • A close-knit, supportive team that genuinely cares about the work and each other
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Instrumental Group

A deeply certified international agency prepared to guide and scale your company by making the most out of your marketing, sales, and customer service systems.As a comprehensive digital solutions powerhouse, we provide value-added support to ensure your technology stack is on a solid foundation so your business can grow fast and outpace competitors.

Founded in 2009
Golden, Colorado, USA
74 employees (28 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$69K/yr – $84K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

SEO median pay in the United States

$85K/yr

Most pay falls between $68K and $110K. Based on 1,673 salaries.

See all Instrumental Group salaries

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
22 (30% of company)
Median Career Experience
9 years
Median Tenure
3 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
4.8K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
36.5%
Direct
43.8%
Referral
11.6%
Social
7%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~75
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SEO/SEM Marketing Specialist

Instrumental Group · USA · Remote