# Senior SEO Executive

> VirtuHire · South Africa (Remote) · — · Posted 2026-03-05

**Workplace:** remote

## Description

Our client in the UK, a rapidly growing digital agency, is looking for a professional, driven and proactive person with SEO experience to join their amazing team of digital marketers! This is a pivotal role for the business.

They are looking for someone with experience in managing SEO strategies for multiple clients. Agency experience is a must. You will work closely with a team of SEOs and content writers, collaborating to develop and implement strategies that drive clients’ organic rankings. Career progression is available and actively encouraged for the right candidate.

### Your responsibilities will include:

-   Managing day-to-day SEO campaigns for multiple clients, including local, on-site, off-site, and technical SEO.
-   Establishing KPIs and performance benchmarks, measuring success and providing strategic recommendations for ongoing growth.
-   Developing and implementing SEO strategies to improve organic rankings and traffic.
-   Conducting keyword research and optimising website content, including blogs, landing pages, meta tags, URLs, and internal linking.
-   Performing technical SEO audits and implementing improvements (site speed, crawl errors, schema, mobile optimisation).
-   Optimising and managing local SEO for clients, including Google Business Profiles, citations, and local keyword targeting.
-   Providing regular reporting and insights to clients and internal teams.
-   Creating and optimising content for multiple clients’ websites, including blog posts, landing pages, and meta descriptions, ensuring alignment with the wider SEO strategy and target audience.
-   Identifying, troubleshooting, and resolving SEO performance issues through data-driven analysis and creative problem-solving.
-   Leading and mentoring junior SEO team members, providing training, guidance, and feedback to support their growth and development.
-   Identifying new growth opportunities, such as emerging search platforms, voice search, or AI-driven SEO tools.
-   Collaborating with cross-functional teams (e.g. developers, designers, PPC, social media, and content teams) to ensure SEO best practices are integrated across all digital marketing activities.

## Requirements

### Essential:

-   2 years+ of experience in on-site, off-site, technical and content SEO, ideally working with multiple clients.
-   Planned and executed strategic link-building initiatives, including outreach to relevant websites and influencers, to improve search engine rankings and increase site authority.
-   Implemented and managed tracking tags, triggers, and variables in Google Tag Manager to optimise data collection, improve analytics accuracy, and support digital marketing campaigns.
-   Problem-solving and critical thinking skills, with the ability to diagnose issues, develop solutions, and adapt strategies in a fast-changing SEO landscape.
-   Experience with Google Analytics and Google Search Console.
-   Knowledge of SEO tools such as Ahrefs, Moz, Screaming Frog, etc.
-   Strong analytical skills to analyse websites against key competitors to identify opportunities for performance improvements.
-   Understanding of how to develop technical improvements to websites and their servers.
-   Experience in generating content for SEO and an understanding of how to optimise the content, including URLs, keywords, meta tags, internal link structure and external links.
-   An ability to advise on what content should be created to improve organic performance and reach.
-   Thorough knowledge of white-hat SEO techniques.
-   Positive, energetic and a great communicator within a team.
-   Excellent presentation skills.
-   Proactive and passionate, with an ability to actively learn and take on new skills.

## Apply

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