Senior SEO Strategist

Responsibilities

• Account & Strategy Ownership: Creating and managing successful, high-impact SEO strategies across national and international markets, particularly for complex or higher-value accounts, confidently owning long-term roadmaps and account retention.
• Client Relationship Building & Trust: Building strong, lasting, and trusted partnerships with senior client stakeholders, acting as a reliable strategic advisor who understands their commercial drivers and business models.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Working seamlessly alongside internal account teams, including Client Performance, to align technical execution with overarching client performance and business goals.
• Results Delivery & ROI: A proven track record of delivering measurable organic growth, using clear performance, activity, and KPI reporting to demonstrate tangible ROI and value for clients.
• Team Mentoring & Quality Control: Demonstrating high standards of delegation and guidance, acting as a technical and strategic mentor for supporting team members (strategists, executives, analysts), providing rigorous QA, and ensuring exceptional deliverable quality.
• Adaptive Thinking & Agility: Applying adaptive thinking strategically across client challenges, keeping pace with changing search engine environments, emerging SERP features (including AI-driven search), and broader digital trends.
• Cross-Channel Strategy: A developed understanding of organic search within broader digital marketing, collaborating effectively with other channel owners (such as Digital PR, Influencer and Social) to maximise campaign performance and value.
• Channel Ownership & Accountability: Assume full strategic accountability and channel ownership for high-value client partnerships, navigating stakeholder priorities to secure long-term client satisfaction and retention.
• Strategy & Roadmap Development: Create, maintain, and adapt multi-market SEO strategies and long-term roadmaps that respond to algorithmic updates, changing user behaviour, and evolving search technologies.
• Quality Assurance: Perform rigorous Quality Assurance (QA) on deliverables and strategies produced by supporting team members, ensuring all client-facing work meets Impression's high standards before delivery.

Requirements

• At least 5+ years of experience in an SEO-specific role
• Established client leadership
• Senior stakeholder management
• Proven track record of delivering results

Preferred

• Agency experience is highly beneficial for this role, and experience across varied verticals and industry segments, including lead generation and e-commerce, will aid your application.

Benefits

• See our: Impression's Benefits Booklet to find out more
• 4.5-day working week
• flexible hybrid working options
• enhanced leave