Senior SEO Strategist

As Senior SEO Strategist, you'll be at the forefront of optimizing exceptional site experiences, driving results, and crafting effective content strategies. Your passion for SEO and data-driven insights will enable you to elevate marketing campaigns and enhance user experiences for the world-class brands we work with.

You understand that today’s user experience starts at the search results, and you have a knack for ensuring that the right content is discoverable to right people, at the right time. With your analytical skills and attention to detail, you excel at analyzing data and providing actionable recommendations to improve digital visibility. Collaboration is second nature to you, as you work seamlessly across disciplines to implement SEO best practices, drive search initiatives, and meet customers wherever they're searching.

You Will:

• Develop, execute, and optimize holistic SEO strategies for major US brands
• Harness the power of search data to understand user intent, create targeted content strategies, and uncover exciting business opportunities
• Expand your leadership skills as you mentor, train, and oversee a team of talented SEO specialists
• Be the driving force behind defining success metrics and translating SEO results into business objectives
• Pitch and implement new search opportunities
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to incorporate SEO strategies and best practices
• Deliver actionable insights to clients through visually compelling reports, including strategic recommendations to drive growth and increase brand visibility
• Optimize across multiple social and search channels to maximize brand and content visibility
• Align paid and organic search strategies, optimizing for cost-efficiency and driving strategic integration
• Conduct regular SEO audits and competitive analyses
• Advise on SEO requirements for website development, ensuring maximum search indexability and visibility
• Define and document search-driven guidelines and requirements for various page elements, such as content, page speed, structured markup, site architecture, URL structure, meta content, internal linking, accessibility best practices, and more
• Analyze and report on SEO results to both clients and colleagues, driving informed decision-making and continuous improvement
• Effectively communicate SEO concepts, strategies, and success stories clearly and concisely for easy understanding
• Keep your finger on the pulse of the latest digital trends and changes in the search marketing landscape, identifying new opportunities for clients in AI-powered search, automation, visual search, voice search, social search, and more

You Have:

• 5+ years of SEO experience
• Experience managing and training junior SEO specialists
• Strong presentation and data storytelling skills, emphasizing compelling visual stories in slide format
• Demonstrated achievements in systematically improving search performance and driving traffic and conversion growth
• Strong analytics skills, and proficiency with first-party data tools like Google Analytics, Looker, Adobe Analytics, Google Search Console, etc.
• Experience with third-party SEO tools, like SEMrush, Ahrefs, ScreamingFrog, etc.
• Strong content strategy skills, including 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

The Talent Team at Critical Mass is focused on ensuring we provide the best training, onboarding, 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 an effort to do so, we expect our team to work from an office a minimum of 3 days a week.  The ask stems from our want to:

Strengthen opportunity for continuous learning

Improve collaboration and team relationships.

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.