Responsibilities

• Own SEO strategy and delivery across the accounts: hands-on on around six of them, oversight and quality control on the rest.
• Be the SEO voice on client calls, up to director level. Set the plan, explain it plainly, deliver it.
• Own AEO/GEO for the agency: how our clients show up in ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google's AI answers. It's a growing line of work for us and it's yours to build.
• Run the department: processes, QA, priorities, workload for the SEO executive and freelancers.
• Build and improve AI-assisted workflows. We run AI across the business alongside Semrush, GA4, GTM and Windsor.ai. We want someone who uses these tools daily and knows where they help and where they don't.
• Audit and pitch with the directors on prospective clients.

Requirements

• Agency SEO experience, essential. Multiple clients at once, agency pace, agency clients. Client-side only won't work here and we'd rather say so now.
• Four or more years in SEO with results you can talk through in numbers: rankings, traffic, revenue, leads.
• Technical SEO beyond the basics. Content strategy tied to commercial outcomes, not word counts.
• Working knowledge of AEO/GEO. You understand the differences, you've tested things and have opinions.
• Clear on calls and clear in writing. Clients trust you within a meeting or two.
• Ready to lead. You've delegated, reviewed other people's work and pushed back on clients. You may not have run a department yet; that's fine.
• GA4 and Search Console, obviously.
• Skills: technical seo, seo, geo, aeo

Preferred

• Useful but not essential: digital PR and link acquisition, GTM and tracking, Shopify/Magento/WooCommerce, PPC or CRO exposure.

Benefits

• 32 days holiday.
• Strong work-life balance, no working beyond 5pm (Earlier finish on Fridays), no weekends, no commute, flexible time, banked hours.
• Pension.
• Remote-first, UK-based just one team meet-up in Sheffield every other month, and the occasional client meeting.