Location: Hybrid / Flexible
Salary: £45,000-£50,000 DOE + Benefits
Drive SEO Performance for Ambitious Brands
We're looking for an experienced Head of SEO to join our growing digital, creative and brand agency.
This is not a purely strategic or people-management position. We're seeking a hands-on SEO specialist who loves getting into the detail, solving complex technical challenges, and delivering measurable growth for clients. You'll lead our SEO offering while remaining actively involved in the day-to-day implementation of strategies across a diverse portfolio of ambitious brands.
Working closely with our digital, content, creative and client services teams, you'll be responsible for developing and executing SEO strategies, identifying commercial opportunities, and ensuring clients achieve meaningful increases in visibility, traffic and revenue.
The Role
As Head of SEO, you will own and evolve our SEO proposition, combining strategic leadership with hands-on delivery.
You'll work directly with clients to understand their objectives, translate these into actionable SEO strategies, and oversee implementation across technical, content and authority-building activities.
You'll also mentor and support our Content Creators and Digital PR Specialist, ensuring SEO best practice is embedded throughout campaign delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and implement SEO strategies that drive measurable commercial results.
- Lead technical SEO audits and create prioritised roadmaps for implementation.
- Identify technical issues affecting performance and work with development teams to resolve them.
- Conduct keyword research, competitor analysis and opportunity discovery to support content and growth strategies.
- Monitor, analyse and report on SEO performance, translating data into clear recommendations and actions.
- Identify SEO growth opportunities within existing client accounts and contribute to new business conversations and pitches.
- Collaborate with Content Creators to ensure content strategies align with organic search opportunities.
- Work alongside the Digital PR Specialist to maximise authority, link acquisition and brand visibility.
- Stay ahead of industry developments, search engine updates and emerging technologies.
- Help shape and continuously improve the agency's SEO products, methodologies and processes.
- Act as the senior SEO expert within the agency, advising clients and colleagues on best practice.
About You
You'll be an experienced SEO professional with a strong technical background and a proven track record of delivering successful organic growth strategies.
You're commercially aware, confident speaking with clients, and equally comfortable discussing crawl efficiency, Core Web Vitals and site architecture as you are discussing business objectives and ROI.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Significant experience in a senior SEO role, preferably within an agency environment.
- Strong technical SEO expertise with the ability to audit, diagnose and resolve complex issues.
- Experience creating and delivering SEO roadmaps for a variety of websites and sectors.
- Deep understanding of technical SEO principles including:
- Crawling and indexation
- Site architecture
- Core Web Vitals
- Structured data
- JavaScript SEO
- Log file analysis
- International SEO
- Website migrations
- Strong analytical skills and experience using leading SEO and reporting platforms.
- Excellent client-facing and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to translate technical concepts into clear commercial recommendations.
- Experience identifying and developing opportunities for account growth.
- Strong leadership, coaching and mentoring capabilities.
Desirable
- Experience supporting new business pitches and proposals.
- Knowledge of Digital PR and content-led SEO strategies.
- Familiarity with GA4, Google Search Console, Looker Studio, Screaming Frog, SEMrush, Ahrefs and similar platforms.
- Experience working within a creative, digital or integrated marketing agency.