SEO Director

SEO Director

London / Hybrid (2 days per week) |

£58,000 - £70,000 + Bonus + Outstanding Benefits

Want to shape the future of SEO for some of the world's biggest brands?

We're working with one of the UK's leading digital marketing agencies as they look to hire an SEO Director to lead strategy across a portfolio of enterprise clients, manage and develop high-performing teams, and play a key role in driving agency growth.

This is a rare opportunity for an established SEO leader to step into a highly visible position where you'll influence client strategy at the highest level, mentor future leaders within the business, and help define how modern organic search evolves in an era of AI, Answer Engine Optimisation and increasingly complex customer journeys. Based on information from

The Role

As SEO Director, you'll be the senior strategic lead across several flagship accounts, owning enterprise-level SEO strategy and acting as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders. You'll oversee a team of SEO Managers and Analysts, ensuring exceptional delivery while helping shape the wider department's processes, thinking and innovation agenda.

This role combines client leadership, team management, commercial growth and thought leadership, making it ideal for someone who enjoys influencing both people and performance.

What You'll Be Doing

• Developing advanced SEO strategies for major enterprise brands.
• Acting as the senior SEO lead across key client relationships and executive stakeholders.
• Leading client meetings, presentations and strategic planning sessions.
• Managing and mentoring SEO Managers while supporting the growth of the wider team.
• Driving innovation across technical SEO, content strategy, AI search and organic growth initiatives.
• Building and prioritising roadmaps of SEO activity that deliver measurable commercial impact.
• Partnering with Paid Search teams to deliver integrated search strategies.
• Supporting business development, pitches and upsell opportunities across existing accounts.
• Creating best-practice frameworks, training programmes and processes that elevate the wider SEO function.

About You

You'll be a proven SEO leader with experience managing large-scale client relationships and developing high-performing teams.

We're particularly interested in hearing from people who have:

• Extensive experience creating and delivering SEO strategies for enterprise organisations.
• Strong expertise across technical SEO, content optimisation, analytics and search tools.
• A track record of mentoring managers and building successful teams.
• Exceptional presentation and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working closely with PPC teams to drive holistic search performance.
• Strong commercial awareness with previous involvement in pitches, new business or account growth.
• A passion for industry innovation and emerging search technologies.
• Experience contributing thought leadership, speaking engagements, award entries or industry recognition.

What's In It For You?

• Opportunity to work on globally recognised brands.
• Significant strategic ownership and influence.
• Clearly defined progression opportunities.
• Flexible hybrid working.
• Industry-leading training and development.
• Wellbeing and lifestyle benefits package.
• Collaborative, high-performance culture where expertise is genuinely valued. Based on information from

Apply Now

If you're currently leading SEO programmes and looking for a role where you can have a genuine impact on clients, people and business growth, we'd love to hear from you.

Sphere Digital Recruitment currently recruit across SEO, Organic Performance, Content, Digital Strategy and Performance Marketing. To discuss this opportunity and similar roles confidentially, get in touch today.

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