Senior Client Account Director (SEO)

UK (Remote)

Salary Not AvailableSenior LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the global enterprise accounts portfolio by turning client goals into actionable plans, guiding delivery, and driving renewals and growth across scope, timelines, and commercial outcomes.

  • Account management and retention: Manage relationships across a portfolio of enterprise accounts.
  • Hold the retention number for your portfolio.
  • Work closely with our SEO & AEO Director and Growth Director on new opportunities, renewals, commercials, and SOWs.

Job Description

Own the global enterprise accounts portfolio by turning client goals into actionable plans, guiding delivery, and driving renewals and growth across scope, timelines, and commercial outcomes.

  • Account management and retention: Manage relationships across a portfolio of enterprise accounts.
  • Hold the retention number for your portfolio.
  • Work closely with our SEO & AEO Director and Growth Director on new opportunities, renewals, commercials, and SOWs.
  • Work with our SEO & AEO Director, Ops Director and Growth Director to maintain and improve relationship scores across your portfolio.
  • Build account plans that reflect the client's commercial goals, not just our scope of work.
  • Project and delivery management: Work alongside our lead consultants and project manager on day-to-day tasks, delivery, and quality management.
  • Keep scope, timeline, and quality in balance across every active workstream.
  • Set up the right rituals for each account including standups, working sessions, reporting cadences, async updates.
  • Spot risks early and resolve them before they become escalations.
  • Use Jira, Notion, and our internal SOPs to keep everything visible and accountable.

Requirements

  • Significant agency or consultancy experience leading global enterprise accounts.
  • A track record of retaining and growing major clients over multi-year engagements.
  • Experience working with clients in high-competition verticals such as retail, ecommerce, travel, financial services, fintech, and media.
  • Strong project management instincts. You can run a complex program without losing the thread.
  • Deep understanding of digital marketing across organic, paid, content, analytics, and lifecycle.
  • Solid working knowledge of SEO. You don't need to be the most technical person in the room, but you need to hold your own with technical SEO and engineering teams.
  • Exposure to AEO, LLM-driven search, or AI visibility work.
  • Comfort working with senior client stakeholders, including legal, procurement, and C-suite.
  • Clear written and verbal communication. You can write a sharp email, a clean status update, and a useful exec summary.
  • Exposure to commercial models common in consultancy work, including retainers, fixed fee, and time and materials.

Nice-to-have

  • Familiarity with tools such as Jira, Notion, GA4, GSC, or Profound.
  • Experience leading international or multi-market programs across multiple regions and time zones.
  • Experience with site migrations, replatforming, or working with headless and JS-heavy stacks.
  • Experience working with US-based clients and stakeholders.
  • A network in the SEO, digital, or marketing community, whether through speaking, writing, or community involvement.
  • Project management qualifications such as PRINCE2 or Agile/Scrum certifications.

Benefits

  • Annual Bonus : Performance-based bonus scheme to reward your contribution when we hit our profit targets.
  • Health Cash Plan : Membership to help with everyday healthcare costs, including coverage for your children.
  • Remote Working : Flexibility to work remotely as standard.
  • Enhanced Leave For Tenure : 25 days plus bank holidays as standard, and your holiday allowance increases the longer you’re with us.
  • Revolut Membership : Premium membership giving you access to a suite of lifestyle benefits, including:
  • Global travel and cancellation insurance
  • Airmiles and airport lounge access and 3GB of monthly travel data
  • Access to premium learning and news platforms, wellness apps and other services
  • Conference or Volunteering Day : Dedicated time to attend industry conferences or volunteer for causes you care about.
  • Holiday Purchase & Carryover Leave : Option to buy additional holiday days if you need more time off, or carry over unused holiday to the next year.
  • Enhanced sick pay beyond statutory requirements
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Merj

Merj is your partner for SEO and AEO. We create engineering advantage for enterprises worldwide. As ISO 27001-certified partners, we work between your engineering and marketing teams to fix what's hidden: crawl waste, rendering gaps, broken delivery chains, and the technical blind spots that cost you traffic, citations, and revenue.

Founded in 2015
London, England, GBR
13 employees (2 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
3.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
21.2%
Direct
30.4%
Referral
29%
Social
17.7%
Paid
1.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~13

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2 (15% of company)