SEO Strategist

**Location**:
Latham, New York

**Job Type**:
Full Time

Pay Range:
$60,000-$70,000

**Who We Are**:
**The E10K Difference**:
Our team strongly believes in everyone having a voice, everyone contributing, and everyone’s ideas being heard. We focus on fostering a collaborative environment and a people-centered culture — because that’s what fuels our creativity. And that’s what fuels brands’ success. We have assembled a dynamic, forward-thinking team with diverse backgrounds in strategy, creative, and technology who share the same goal: helping our clients reach new heights.

**Nature** **and** **Scope** **of** **the** **Job**:

- The position reports to the Director of Organic
- Work in a client-facing role with client stakeholders and agency partners to drive recognizable results with the best and most up-to-date SEO
- Run and maintain multiple SEO projects in a fast-paced
- Develop and execute detailed SEO strategies to improve organic site performance, visibility, and conversion rate optimization within competitive search engine results pages, amongst other key performance indicators.
- Work with varied technical website technologies and across various competitive industries to conduct site audits, health checks and implement latest tactics to high performance and visibility in search
- Conduct SEO research, develop recommendations, and manage implementations that will make up the most effective SEO strategies available to clients.
- Perform actionable technical audits, keyword research, backlink audits, competitive analyses, gap analyses, and other SEO deliverables in collaboration with E10K team members to maximize client ROI and performance.
- Provide optimization recommendations for blog content, existing site content and
- Monitor and analyze site performance using SEO and site analytics
- Follow SEO trends and stay current with news, technologies, and best

This position requires a naturally curious, analytical problem solver who is energetic, enthusiastic, and ready to learn and work effectively independently and in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. This includes providing creative solutions while communicating directly with clients, both verbally and in writing.

The SEO Strategist must be able to provide creative solutions in a competitive and constantly changing technical discipline. This position requires an analytical problem solver who can accurately define, strategize, and implement a plan successfully. In addition, the SEO Strategist should understand research data to recognize trends and shifting conditions in the industry or methodologies. In the course of daily work, the SEO Strategist will make independent decisions relating to their assigned projects. This includes developing tactics and campaigns that drive business goals, including audience growth, engagement, and reach. They must appropriately respond to opportunities, problems, situations, and circumstances that are not always foreseen.

**Professional Job Requirements**:

- Minimum of 3-5 years experience in the search engine optimization industry
- Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Journalism, English, Communications, or another marketing-focused field.
- Solid understanding and interest in how organic search fits into the marketing mix, and the power it has in digital strategies.
- Extensive experience with SEO tools such as Google Search Console, Google Analytics, Bing Webmaster Tools, SEM Rush, MOZ, ahrefs, etc.
- Knowledge of HTML, PHP, CSS, and general site code and hosting
- Experience working with content management systems (CMS) such as WordPress, Magento, Drupal, or Hubspot.
- Vast knowledge of ranking factors and search engine optimization
- Highly proficient in communicating and juggling tasks within multiple collaborative tools such as Slack, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Office 365, InVision, and project management platforms like Asana.

**Soft Skills Required**:

- Strong analytical and time-management skills, solution-oriented mindset, and proactive thinking
- Comfortable in a client-facing role with effective communication and interpersonal skills
- Confidence and assertiveness; ability to build respect and credibility with colleagues and clients
- Proven experience working both independently and in a collaborative environment.

**What We Offer**:

- Transparency and Humanity: Leadership open-door policy
- A workplace that is alive with inclusion, respect, ideas, and creativity
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans for you and your family to fit your lifestyle including Wellness Perks, Gym Reimbursement, and Telemedicine
- A 401(k) Savings Plan
- Company-paid $25,000 Life Insurance Policy
- Additional Perks: Paid Family Leave, Well-Being Programs
- Paid holidays, Unlimited Paid Time Off, and Summer Fridays

At Elevation Ten Thousand, we strive to lead with our values and beliefs at the forefront of what we do. We are able to head down this path because of our people. The variety of people on our