SEO Lead

Since 1913, the agency has added data science, analytics and in-house production teams. Headquartered in Hyderabad, the agency also runs a production studio in Telangana. We use Asana for projects and Slack for everything else.

About the role:

We are looking for someone who can explain a ranking drop with data instead of guesses. The SEO Lead owns organic search performance for our main website, about 4,000 indexed pages. You will be employed through our employer-of-record partner in the US, with a local contract and salary paid in USD. Flexible hours with a daily team call in the morning.

Essential duties and responsibilities:

• Monitor rankings, traffic and indexation in Google Search Console, GA4 and Ahrefs
• Audit backlink profiles and plan outreach for quality links
• Work with developers on Core Web Vitals, redirects, canonical tags and structured data
• Research keywords and build content briefs for writers
• Maintain XML sitemaps and robots.txt
• Track competitor content and rankings for priority keywords
• Run regular site crawls in Screaming Frog and fix or ticket the issues found
• Review new pages and site migrations for SEO issues before launch

Qualifications:

• 8-10 years of hands-on SEO work, in-house or at an agency
• Comfortable in Excel or Google Sheets with large keyword lists
• Clear writer who can produce a usable content brief
• Proficient with Ahrefs, Semrush or Moz
• Understanding of HTML, canonicals, hreflang, schema markup and redirects

Nice to have:

• Python or SQL for working with crawl and log data
• Local SEO for multi-location businesses
• Experience with a site migration

Pay: $114,000 - $140,000 per year

What you get:

• Company laptop
• Annual salary review
• Health insurance through our employer-of-record partner
• Two weeks of paid leave at year end

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Gristmill Ltd.