SEO Manager

The role

The SEO Manager will lead and scale SEO delivery for a portfolio of home-services clients. This role involves managing local SEO, Google Business Profile, content direction, technical SEO, and link building coordination.

What you will do

• Own SEO strategy and execution for a portfolio of home-services clients.
• Create and maintain SEO roadmaps covering technical improvements, content, local visibility, link building, and GBP optimization.
• Contribute to building scalable SEO processes, templates, QA checks, and reporting standards.
• Stay current on Google algorithm updates, AI-influenced search trends, E-E-A-T considerations, and local ranking factors.
• Improve GBP rankings across primary and surrounding service cities.
• Optimize categories, attributes, service areas, citations, photos/videos, and local trust signals.
• Conduct city-level keyword research and local expansion planning.
• Build content plans for service pages, location pages, blogs, and topical authority clusters.
• Coordinate link acquisition activities including citations, outreach, partnerships, and placements.
• Run technical audits covering crawlability, indexation, architecture, internal linking, duplication, schema basics, and Core Web Vitals.

Required qualifications

• 3–5 years of hands-on SEO experience, ideally in an agency or multi-client environment.
• Proven success improving local SEO performance for service-area businesses.
• Experience improving Google Business Profile rankings and local visibility in competitive markets.
• Familiarity with multi-location SEO structures.
• Solid technical SEO foundation.
• Strong proficiency in WordPress.
• Ability to produce clear documentation, briefs, action plans, and performance reporting.
• Strong organization and time management.
• Prior, professional remote work experience.
• Fluent with remote collaboration tools (e.g., Slack, Zoom, Google Workspace, Asana or similar).

Nice to have

• Experience collaborating with paid media/LSA teams or supporting omnichannel strategies.
• Experience with structured data/schema implementation and validation.
• Experience mentoring junior SEO specialists or coordinating contractors/vendors.

Before you apply

• Applications without clear evidence of remote work experience and comfort operating in distributed teams will not be considered.
• You will be required to record a video as part of the application process.
• If you do not record a video, you will not be considered for any open roles.

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