Director of SEO

Retainers start small, and many clients have stayed with us for years. We use Asana for projects and Slack for everything else.

Job summary

Thornlane & Co. is looking for a Director of SEO to join a small, steady team. You will work with writers, web developers and the paid search team every week. We are looking for someone who can explain a ranking drop with data instead of guesses. Hybrid, with three days a week in our Palm Bay office.

Key responsibilities

• Investigate traffic drops after algorithm updates or site releases.
• Monitor rankings, traffic and indexation in Google Search Console, GA4 and Ahrefs.
• Optimize titles, meta descriptions, headers and internal links on existing pages.
• Work with developers on Core Web Vitals, redirects, canonical tags and structured data.
• Audit backlink profiles and plan outreach for quality links.
• Review new pages and site migrations for SEO issues before launch.
• Run regular site crawls in Screaming Frog and fix or ticket the issues found.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on SEO work, in-house or at an agency.
• Understanding of HTML, canonicals, hreflang, schema markup and redirects.
• Able to show traffic results from past projects.
• Experience working with developers through Jira or a similar ticketing system.
• Proficient with Ahrefs, Semrush or Moz.

Why work with us

Pay: $121,000-$143,000/year

• Free parking.
• Paid holidays.
• Referral program.
• Gym membership reimbursement.
• Employee discount.
• Three weeks of PTO to start.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Thornlane & Co. LLC.