We are looking for an experienced Head of SEO & Agency Operations who can independently lead, manage, and scale our agency business.

This is not a conventional SEO Manager or Team Lead position. We need someone who understands both SEO and the business of running a successful SEO agency.

Role Overview

- You should be capable of running the agency function with minimal day-to-day supervision from the founder.
- Your responsibility is not to personally execute every SEO task. It is to build and manage a team, processes, and systems that consistently deliver high-quality results.

Key Responsibilities

1. Complete SEO Agency Management

- Take ownership of day-to-day agency operations and client delivery.
- Manage multiple SEO accounts, priorities, deadlines, and resources.
- Build scalable processes for onboarding, audits, strategy, implementation, reporting, and renewals.
- Ensure every client has a clear strategy, delivery roadmap, responsible team members, and measurable goals.
- Establish accountability, quality control, and performance standards across the agency.
- Identify operational bottlenecks and implement practical solutions.

2. SEO Strategy & Technical Leadership

- Lead SEO strategy for clients across B2B, SaaS, services, e-commerce, and other relevant industries.
- Demonstrate strong expertise in technical SEO, on-page SEO, content SEO, internal linking, information architecture, and authority building.
- Oversee site audits, migrations, indexing, crawling, Core Web Vitals, structured data, and technical implementation.
- Develop keyword, topic-cluster, content, and competitive strategies aligned with business objectives.
- Understand international SEO and strategies for competitive markets such as the US, UK, Canada, and Australia.
- Stay current with Google Search updates, AI Overviews, AEO, GEO, and AI-search visibility.
- Ensure SEO recommendations are translated into completed, verified implementation work.

3. Team Leadership & Hiring

- Lead SEO specialists, content strategists, writers, outreach teams, and technical resources.
- Assess current team capabilities and recommend hiring, training, restructuring, or process improvements.
- Define KRAs, KPIs, responsibilities, and performance expectations for each role.
- Conduct regular reviews, coaching, and quality checks.
- Build a culture of ownership, problem-solving, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Plan team capacity and allocate resources according to client commitments.

4. Client Management & Retention

- Act as the senior escalation point for important client accounts.
- Lead strategic client meetings, quarterly reviews, and difficult client conversations.
- Ensure clear communication, timely delivery, and transparent reporting.
- Proactively identify risks related to performance, satisfaction, scope, or retention.




- Build long-term client relationships and identify opportunities for upselling or expanding services.
- Ensure clients understand what has been implemented, why it matters, and what results are being measured.

5. Business Growth & Sales Support

- Work closely with the founder and business development team to grow the agency.
- Participate in discovery calls, technical consultations, pitches, and proposal preparation.
- Conduct prospect audits and develop commercially sound SEO recommendations.
- Help structure service packages, pricing, deliverables, and client expectations.
- Support lead-to-client conversion through credible SEO expertise and consultative selling.
- Identify new service opportunities in SEO, content, AI-search optimization, and organic growth.

6. Agency Profitability & Performance

- Monitor project effort, delivery costs, team utilization, and account profitability.
- Help establish sustainable pricing and realistic service scopes.
- Reduce rework, unnecessary manual processes, and delivery inefficiencies.
- Track client retention, recurring revenue, delivery timelines, and service margins.
- Present regular operational and business performance updates to management.

7. Systems, Automation & Reporting

- Build standardized SOPs, checklists, templates, and workflows.
- Implement effective project management and task accountability systems.
- Establish dashboards for agency operations and client performance.
- Use automation and AI tools to improve efficiency without compromising quality.
- Ensure proper tracking using Google Search Console, GA4, Looker Studio, and relevant SEO platforms.
- Connect SEO performance to qualified traffic, leads, conversions, and business outcomes wherever measurement is available.

Required Skills & Qualifications

- 6–10+ years of hands-on SEO and digital marketing experience.
- At least 5 years of proven leadership experience in an SEO or digital marketing agency.
- Demonstrated experience managing multiple client accounts and cross-functional teams.
- Strong technical SEO expertise and the ability to review and challenge specialists' work.
- Practical experience with Ahrefs, Semrush, Screaming Frog, Google Search Console, GA4, and reporting tools.
- Solid understanding of content strategy, ethical link acquisition, competitor research, and organic growth.
- Experience managing international clients, preferably from the US, UK, Canada, or Australia.




- Excellent written and spoken English.
- Strong client presentation, communication, negotiation, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to independently make decisions, set priorities, manage people, and resolve delivery issues.
- Commercial understanding of agency pricing, resource planning, client retention, and profitability.
- Working knowledge of AI-search optimization, AEO, and GEO, with a willingness to test and validate emerging approaches.

Preferred Qualifications

- Previous experience as an SEO Head, SEO Director, Head of Organic Growth, or SEO Agency Operations Head.
- Experience scaling an SEO team or improving agency delivery operations.
- Experience designing SEO service packages and supporting enterprise or international client acquisition.
- Familiarity with ClickUp, Asana, Monday.com, or similar project management systems.
- Experience developing automated SEO workflows, client dashboards, and operational reporting.

What Success Looks Like

First 30 Days

- Audit existing SEO clients, team capabilities, workflows, deliverables, and operational gaps.
- Identify urgent delivery issues and implement corrective actions.
- Establish clear accountability and reporting across active projects.

First 60 Days

- Implement standardized SEO workflows, quality-control processes, and client reporting.
- Improve delivery visibility, resource allocation, and team productivity.
- Establish practical performance KPIs for the team and client accounts.

First 90 Days

- Take independent ownership of routine agency operations.
- Present a clear growth and operational improvement roadmap.
- Establish measurable baselines for delivery efficiency, client satisfaction, retention risk, and profitability.
- Demonstrate improvements in execution consistency and management visibility.

Key Performance Indicators

Performance will be evaluated on:

- Client satisfaction and retention
- Timely completion and quality of SEO deliverables
- Organic growth and business outcomes against agreed client objectives
- Team productivity and accountability
- Client onboarding and operational efficiency
- Account profitability and resource utilization
- Contribution to new client acquisition and account expansion
- Quality of processes, reporting, and execution

Who Should Apply?

We are looking for a hands-on agency leader with robust ownership, not someone who only prepares SEO strategies, assigns tasks, or shares ranking reports.

You should be comfortable managing demanding clients, leading teams, solving technical SEO problems, improving business processes, and taking responsibility for delivery outcomes.

If you have successfully managed an SEO agency function and are confident you can build a high-performing SEO team, we would like to hear from you.

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