SEO Manager – Research and Development
If you want to use your cutting-edge SEO skills to innovate and train others, keep reading. We are looking for an individual with 5+ years of SEO skills and experience to help evaluate new tools, processes, procedures, and strategies to improve client results. The SEO Manager – Research and Development will be responsible for reaching out to vendors, testing, evaluating, launching, and training on new systems, products, and strategies.
Hennessey Digital, a leading SEO and digital marketing agency, is looking for a highly organized, efficient, and self-motivated SEO Manager – Research and Developmentto join the team and work with our VP of SEO and Senior Director of SEO.
We’re a 100%-remote, ultra-collaborative team of digital marketing pros and SEO nerds from all over the world. Our culture is a big deal to us, and if you’ve got the SEO chops—and if you’re down with the 127 Code of Honor—we’d love to meet you! We’re a rapidly growing company, it’s important that you have an entrepreneurial attitude, an embracing mindset toward change, and can manage/prioritize multiple concurrent projects.
The desired candidate will possess excellent organizational and communication skills—as well as be familiar with project management in a creative agency atmosphere.
Essential Duties/Responsibilities:
- Evaluate new tools and strategies and work with the VP of SEO to roll out successful ones across the entire SEO team. Train new individuals on the strategy.
- Perform a detailed research on new and existing strategies for the areas of SEO, GMB, PR and Outreach, and SEO. Present findings to internal teams and/or clients addressing concerns and solutions utilizing new and effective strategies.
- Work with the internal team to document the strategy for our SEO Department.
- Standardize, document, and distribute procedures for the areas of SEO, GBP, PR and Outreach, SEO rules for website design and architecture, etc. as appropriate.
- Collaborate with Marketing & Communications to position Hennessey Digital as innovative, industry-leading experts.
- Serve as an “early warning” function inside the company as search engines change and the company’s search strategy needs to evolve.
- Drive Research and Development function for the SEO Department.
- Make recommendations and evaluate the effectiveness of new and existing new strategies. With the leadership team, build out related processes and document the strategy for our SEO Department.
- Analyze client sites utilizing best practice research strategies and techniques.
- Analyze and test SEO trends for effectiveness.
- Support the leadership team to standardize, document, and distribute procedures for the areas of SEO, GMB, PR and Outreach, SEO rules for website design and architecture, etc. as appropriate.
- Identify and promptly raise any issues or delays as they arise with a mindset toward problem-solving.
Experience
- 5+ years of experience in SEO, required
- Experience with SEO tools including but not limited to Bright Edge, Searchmetrics, SEO Clarity, Moz, Conductor
- 3+ years agency experience preferred
- Critical thinking “outside the box”
- Utilization of artificial intelligence (AI)
- Proven track record of successful project management and multi-tasking skills with the ability to hit and exceed deadlines required
- Proficiency with Google Docs, and other common applications
- Excellent communication skills, both written and oral while paying close attention to detail
- Excellent command of the English language
Degrees, Licensure, and/or Certification
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent related experience
