Award-Winning Growth Marketing Agency Hybrid Working | to £55k DOE + Benefits
Are you an experienced SEO leader looking to shape and scale the organic growth offering of a high-performing digital agency?
We're partnering with an award-winning growth marketing agency that delivers outstanding performance for an impressive portfolio of eCommerce, B2B and consumer brands. Following continued growth, they're looking to appoint a Head of SEO to lead their organic search function, develop innovative search strategies, and drive exceptional results for clients.
This is a strategic leadership role where you'll combine technical SEO expertise, commercial thinking, and people leadership to elevate performance across a diverse client portfolio.
The Role
As Head of SEO, you'll lead a team of SEO Strategists and Digital PR Specialists, owning the agency's SEO vision, strategy, and delivery standards. Working closely with client services, content, analytics, paid media and senior leadership teams, you'll ensure SEO plays a central role in driving measurable business growth for clients.
You'll bring a deep understanding of technical SEO, search trends, and algorithm developments, while building scalable processes that drive performance, efficiency and client retention.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and lead the agency's SEO strategy and roadmap.
- Manage, mentor and develop a team of SEO Strategists and Digital PR Specialists.
- Oversee technical SEO audits, recommendations and implementation plans.
- Lead strategic account planning across key client relationships.
- Ensure SEO campaigns are aligned to commercial objectives and measurable outcomes.
- Drive innovation across technical SEO, content strategy, authority building and organic growth initiatives.
- Collaborate with client services teams to support retention, upselling and new business opportunities.
- Monitor industry developments, search trends and algorithm updates, translating insights into client strategies.
- Establish and track performance frameworks, reporting on rankings, traffic, visibility, conversions and revenue impact.
- Champion best practice, quality assurance and continuous improvement across the SEO team.
About You
- Proven experience leading SEO strategy within a digital marketing agency or high-growth in-house environment.
- Strong technical SEO expertise with a deep understanding of site architecture, crawlability, indexing, Core Web Vitals and website performance.
- Experience managing and developing high-performing SEO and Digital PR teams.
- Commercially minded with the ability to link SEO activity to business results.
- Strong stakeholder management and client-facing skills.
- Experience building strategic account plans and presenting performance insights to senior stakeholders.
- Passionate about leadership, coaching and developing talent.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, performance-driven agency environment.