SEO Manager

Are you someone who genuinely loves SEO? Not just as a channel, but as a craft? Do you stay ahead of algorithm updates because you want to, not because you have to? Are you excited by the way AI is reshaping search and keen to explore what that means in practice?

We’re partnering with a highly respected digital agency looking for an SEO Manager to take ownership of strategy, mentor a small team, and help shape the next phase of growth for their SEO offering.

This is a role for someone with strong agency experience who combines commercial thinking with deep technical understanding. Someone who is passionate about SEO and is able to inspire a team and push the envelope.

As SEO Lead, you’ll set the strategic direction across a portfolio of clients, ensuring SEO is delivered confidently, commercially, and consistently.

You’ll work closely with clients on strategy, leading workshops, shaping discovery sessions, contributing to website launches, and ensuring SEO is embedded early rather than retrofitted later. This is full-stack SEO: technical, on-page, content, data, performance and innovation.

You’ll mentor and develop a small SEO team, setting standards for quality and delivery. Line management experience is essential - this role is about building confidence, consistency and progression within the team.

The role can be hands-on with implementation if that’s your preference, or more oversight-focused if your strengths lie in strategy and team leadership. What matters most is that you understand how excellent SEO is executed and can ensure it’s delivered to a high standard.

There's potential for you to play a role in account growth if that's something that excites you, identifying opportunities to expand SEO retainers and contribute to revenue growth. So there’s genuine scope to grow the SEO function, and your role, over time.

• Has proven agency SEO experience
• Has experience managing or mentoring SEO team members
• Is confident leading client conversations around SEO strategy
• Has strong knowledge across technical, on-page and content SEO
• Is comfortable interpreting GA4, Search Console and other SEO tools
• Has a genuine interest in the evolution of search, including AI-driven search changes
• Brings commercial awareness and understands how SEO drives revenue
• Is proactive, opinionated and passionate about doing things properly

You’ll be joining a collaborative, forward-thinking agency that works with impressive clients across a range of sectors. The team is talented, supportive and ambitious, and there’s real opportunity to shape how SEO evolves within the business.

Location is flexible — the right person matters more than postcode. The agency is open to discussing how to make things work for someone further afield.

There is genuine scope for this role to grow in responsibility and influence over time, particularly for someone motivated to expand the SEO offering and grow revenue.

If you’re an SEO professional who genuinely loves the discipline, enjoys mentoring others, and wants to shape the future of search within a growing agency, we’d love to hear from you.