As Search Lead, you understand that today’s user experience begins at the search results, and that search marketing is at the core of a customer-centric digital strategy. You know how to unlock the stories found in data, and translate those stories into performance-driving opportunities to meet customers wherever they’re searching across the evolving digital landscape.

In this role, you’ll manage and grow an expert team of holistic search marketers. You’ll use search insights to craft data-driven digital strategies that demonstrate a deep understanding of our clients’ overall businesses. You’ll also identify and spearhead initiatives to drive search performance through content strategy, user experience, and a strong technical foundation. You will own the pitching, definition, and execution of holistic search strategies, including tactical planning, performance reporting, and continuous testing and optimization.

You Will:

• Own the definition, execution, and optimization of holistic search marketing strategies for national brands
• Use search data (in conjunction with other research sources) to understand user intent, drive content strategies, and identify business opportunities for clients
• Manage and develop a high-performing team of SEO specialists
• Define success metrics and translate SEO results to business objectives
• Pitch and implement new search projects and service offerings
• Represent the Search practice within the agency, serving as a strategic thought leader, entrepreneur, advocate, and educator
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to incorporate SEO strategies and best practices
• Deliver actionable insights to clients through insightful, visually compelling reports (including implications and strategic recommendations)
• Optimize across multiple social and search channels (e.g. YouTube) to maximize brand and content visibility
• Align paid and organic search strategies to reduce costs while maximizing key business activities
• Conduct regular SEO audits and competitive analyses
• Effectively convey SEO concepts, strategies, and success stories to both clients and colleagues in a concise and easy-to-understand manner
• Develop frameworks and processes to systematically track and improve search performance
• Advise on technical website development to maximize search indexability and visibility, including JavaScript SEO and accessibility considerations
• Define search-driven guidelines and requirements for page content, copy, page speed, accessibility, indexability, structured markup, site architecture, URL structure, page titles, meta descriptions, headings, anchor text, internal linking, site maps, etc.
• Monitor, analyze, and report on search results and performance to both internal and external stakeholders
• Keep current with the latest digital trends to identify potential applications for clients like speed, voice search, AI, machine learning automation, omnichannel search optimization, and more

You Have:

• 6+ years of search experience, ideally with large brands 
• Experience managing and growing a team of SEO specialists
• Strong presentation and data storytelling skills, with an emphasis on crafting compelling visual stories in slide format
• Demonstrated achievements in systematically improving search performance that translated into traffic and conversion growth
• Strong analytics skills, and experience with analytics and data visualization tools like Google Analytics, Google Data Studio, Adobe Analytics, Google Search Console, etc.
• Experience with third-party SEO/SEM technologies and tools, like SEMrush, Ahrefs, ScreamingFrog, etc.
• Strong content strategy skills, ideally with experience in data-driven content creation
• Excellent business acumen, results-orientation and written communication skills
• Experience defining and documenting cross-disciplinary internal processes to streamline SEO implementation and best practices
• Strong Excel skills, including pivot tables, vlook-ups, and comfort working with large data sets.
• Strong understanding of technical SEO and the web development process, including a working knowledge of JavaScript and relevant frameworks
• Passion for staying current in a rapidly evolving digital environment, leveraging new tools and digital marketing channels to gain a competitive edge

You May Have:

• Experience managing paid search, PPC, or SEM campaigns – or experience integrating SEO/SEM strategies
• Local SEO/Google Business Profile experience 
• Automotive experience

The Talent Team at Critical Mass is focused on ensuring we provide the best training, on-boarding, and employee experience possible! Our new hires & employees are the future of our organization, and we want to set you up for long-term success. In effort to do so, we’d like to establish the ask that you plan to work from an office a minimum of 2 days a week. The ask stems from our want to:

Strengthen opportunity for continuous learning
Improve collaboration and team relationship.
Increase employee engagement

This hybrid model balances the need for individual flexibility while maintaining the relentless customer focus we provide at CM. We understand that not everyone may feel comfortable with this expectation, so we ask that you please let us know immediately if there are any concerns so we can help navigate accordingly.

CM Liquid Talent is still an option for roles approved to be 100% remote.