We are looking for a highly motivated Search Marketing Strategist to drive the strategy, planning and execution of our clients’ SEO marketing initiatives to achieve their business objectives. You will be responsible for driving stellar results for your assigned clients, as well as helping the Vice President of Strategy grow the digital strategy practice overall. Our company is growing rapidly and changing weekly, so we also need someone who is flexible and interested in ongoing growth in role and responsibilities.

Responsibilities

As Search Strategist, you will:

• Lead keyword research, technical, content, and backlink audits
• Recommend and implement technical optimizations
• Guide offsite activity such as Content Marketing Strategy or Outreach Campaigns
• Develop integrated digital strategies
• Run effective SEO campaigns
• Produce client facing reports, studies and presentations
• Continually broaden your knowledge in the field of SEO and in the process share and teach that knowledge to the rest of the team.
• Demonstrate search industry thought leadership.
• Nurture and develop relationships with clients.
• Analyze the performance of campaigns, identifying strategic opportunities and facilitating change in order to hit and exceed client expectations and goals.

You will be responsible for the following outcomes:

• Distilling and implementing strategies that drive business value
• Communicating strategies in such a way that clients understand the strategy, its implementation, and the value driven
• Building personal relationship with each client

Desired Skills & Experience

You:

• Drive toward personal success and the success of others around you
• Have a true love of both learning and sharing that knowledge
• Are kind and deeply conscientious

In addition, you:

• Have 3-5 years of experience in SEO
• Enjoy and excel at both the art and science of SEO
• Have technical SEO expertise (Canonicalization, Sitemaps, Crawl Budget, Screaming Frog, Ahrefs, etc.)
• Research and diagnose technical issues and communicate them in a way for everyone to understand
• Know your way around HTML, although not a developer, and can communicate with engineering teams
• Love data and the story it tells, accessing, analyzing and utilizing data from Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools
• Have a passion for the Internet and its value as a marketing channel
• Excel in telling a story with your findings to persuade others in both written and verbal forms
• Are a self-starter, self-motivator and able to work with minimal supervision
• Desire to learn and expand your professional responsibilities
• Have intellectual horsepower, but are humble, professional and gracious. We’re nice people, we have a phenomenal team and we tend to be friends with our clients. We want to add a teammate who has a similar sensibility.

Bonus

• In-house SEO experience
• Leadership experience

We Offer

• A fun company culture and beautiful work environment
• Excitement, creativity and rapid growth
• Competitive salary & benefits, including full medical, dental and vision
• Quarterly volunteering
• 401K & contribution matching

Wheelhouse Digital Marketing Group

We are a performance-driven digital marketing agency. We work with companies large and small to discover and make the most of new opportunities in an exciting, ever-changing digital landscape.

Our work is varied. We’ve developed global domain strategy for a billion-dollar insurance network and harnessed SEO to help dozens of ecommerce companies make organic search their fastest growing and most profitable source of revenue. We’ve built digital advertising campaigns that generate tens of millions in profit for an online bookseller, tripled lead generation for a leading telecommunications company through conversion rate optimization, and developed and implemented analytics strategies for a 150-site healthcare provider.

Our values are our north star. They guide our decisions and our every action. We’re committed to being a partner who goes above and beyond to make sure our experience together and the results we achieve are exceptional.

Wheelhouse DMG is an equal employment opportunity employer. All employees have the right to work in a discrimination-free environment. Wheelhouse DMG will not permit or condone any arbitrary or unlawful discrimination in the workplace. It is our policy that all employment decisions will be made without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, creed, religion, age, marital status, national origin, disability, honorably discharged veteran or military status, genetic characteristics, political affiliation, or any other factor protected from discrimination by state, local, or federal law.