SEO Manager

The Basics + Benefits:

• Growth Plays is hiring two SEO managers with 3+ years of experience based in North America.
• This is a new role at Growth Plays, and will be reporting to our Director of Technical SEO, Dan Silber.
• This role is ideal for an individual contributor who loves to roll up their sleeves and execute on technical and on-page SEO work. We are looking for doers who produce results, not just strategists.
• You will work closely with our Director of Technical SEO, Director of AI, and account managers to ensure that all SEO deliverables and ad hoc client requests are sent on time and to specification.
• Salary range: $75-105K per year DOE, plus we cover home internet, a coworking space, and all necessary office equipment.
• If in the US, we offer a matching 401(K) (eligible after 6 months, up to 4%)
• This is a full-time role, and for candidates in the US we offer health, vision + dental benefits.
• 90% of your base health plan is covered by us (40% for dependents) and 50% of dental and vision is also covered,
• FSA options are available to US candidates
• 3 weeks PTO
• Thats 15 days off of your choosing, and then we shut down fully the last week of the year.
• $40 a month stipend for coffee and snacks.
  

Required:

• You are an experienced agency-side SEO professional with 3+ years of hands-on experience performing audits and experiments, implementing your own recommendations, and keeping sites technically performant over time.
• You have a proven track record of execution. We want to see tangible results from your work, not just strategic thinking.
• During the interview process we will want to see detailed examples of past work where you explain exactly what you did to help grow or recover traffic.
• In-depth knowledge of all things technical SEO (crawling, rendering, indexation, site speed, internationalization, etc.) as well as on-page optimization, and links (but you will not do any link building or content strategy in this role).
• You are extremely detail-oriented and can QA your own work so it is error free, easy to understand, and straightforward to implement.
• You can communicate to non-technical stakeholders (both internal and external) clearly and concisely so they are aligned with your recommendations and understand the importance of signing off on them.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple projects simultaneously is a must.
• You are deadline-conscious and proactive.
• The ideal candidate is someone who is organized, loves to create and maintain process, and focuses on execution.
• You have experience working with sites running on Webflow and WordPress.
• Bonus points: you have experience working with sites running on React-based frameworks (Next.js is common among our client base) and headless CMSs (Sanity, Contentful, etc.).
• You are deeply experienced in Google Sheets.
• You regularly use GA4, GSC, and Looker Data Studio.
• You have experience with using cloud-based tools (Ahrefs, SEMrush, Botify, BrightEdge, seoClarity, etc.) to audit and monitor customer websites on a regular basis, and can use Screaming Frog or SiteBulb (or something similar) for one-off analysis.
• You operate with urgency and always look for additional ways to add value.

Bonus points:

• You are comfortable writing and QAing redirect rules that impact hundreds/thousands of pages.
• Able to use Apps Script to automate aspects of your work.
• Experience using ClickUp to run day-to-day work.
• You use AI responsibly to find inefficiencies in your work and automate away manual toil.
• You have supported domain and CMS migrations for sites with several thousand pages.
• Experienced in using Google Tag Manager.
• Ability to understand and evaluate HTML, CSS, and JS as it relates to SEO.
• Basic understanding of, and ability to read/write, regular expressions.
  

• You will produce audits, run domain and CMS migrations, and reporting buildouts.
• You will be tapped by account managers when technical SEO issues arise that are complex and need further investigation.
• You will need to attend client calls to go over technical SEO issues and provide well thought out and easy to implement solutions.
• You will be creating tickets in project management systems to get SEO fixes scheduled and implemented and monitoring the resolution of those tickets with client web teams.
• You will be aware of technical site health for all accounts you are assigned to (using Ahrefs), and reach out to account managers when severe SEO issues go live.
• You will run SEO experimentation for your client base using our homegrown experi