Senior Account Manager, SEO

Summary

Join DEPT® as an SEO Senior Account Manager and leverage your expertise to elevate our clients' SEO programs. This remote role, based within 50 miles of Los Angeles, CA, requires a minimum of 4 years of SEO experience and a proven ability to manage client relationships and deliver impactful results. You will be responsible for creating project plans, developing reports on key SEO metrics, conducting technical and on-page audits, and managing client expectations. The ideal candidate possesses strong analytical and reporting skills, expertise with various SEO tools, and a deep understanding of SEO principles. DEPT® offers a collaborative work environment and a comprehensive benefits package, including healthcare, 401k, PTO, and parental leave.

Requirements

• A minimum of 4 years of SEO-specific experience: proven prior work experience presenting findings and making recommendations for account optimizations to internal or external clients a must
• At least 2 years of experience running & managing SEO strategy independently, either in-house or agency
• In-depth understanding of how search engines work, SEO optimization techniques, principles of sound SEO strategies, and all key and recent industry changes
• Familiarity with emerging AI search engines and comfort with leveraging AI tools for automation
• High tolerance for change and proven track record of successfully managing accounts with various goals, moving deadlines, and changing priorities
• Strong time and project management skills as well as high attention to detail
• Expertise around how to research, diagnose, and resolve technical site issues. Must have a clear understanding of how and why technical issues, including crawl errors, redirection, duplication, and site speed, can impact website performance
• Experience with keyword research, strategy assessments, and competitive analyses
• Strong ability to create high quality and well-written deliverables and presentations that successfully communicate SEO opportunities & recommendations
• High experience using SEO-related tools like Screaming Frog,Cloud Crawling tools, BrightEdge, Searchmetrics, Semrush, and AHREFs
• Strong experience with Google Search Console and Google Analytics
• Strong analytical and reporting skills and be proficient in Powerpoint, Excel, and Word
• Familiar with HTML, CSS, and Javascript development and constraints

Responsibilities

• Independently create project plans & roadmaps for all clients
• Familiar with creating projections and/or impact potential for proposed initiatives
• Develop and maintain reporting for all clients on core SEO KPIs, including traffic, conversions (e.g. sales, leads, phone calls), organic impressions, CTR, and rankings
• Independently identify, diagnose, and create a plan to address crawl errors, URL treatment & duplication issues, crawler accessibility and readability concerns, and site speed problems on clients’ websites
• Diagnose keyword targeting issues as well as creation of new keyword strategy to establish optimization opportunities for meta data, on-page content, and structured data
• Development of all core deliverables, including reporting, strategy assessment, auditing, keyword research and mapping, and content optimization projects
• Act as a face of DEPT by facilitating and running client calls and meetings
• Providing consistent and well-structured follow up on status of SEO recommendations for all owned clients
• Manage & analyze ongoing reporting to identify optimization opportunities for each of our clients

Benefits

• Healthcare, Dental, and Vision coverage
• 401k plan, plus matching
• PTO
• Paid Company Holidays
• Parental Leave