SEOGEO Manager

QIMA; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading marketing firm in Dubai seeks an SEO Manager to transform its marketing operations. In this role, you will define and optimize the global SEO strategy, drive organic lead growth, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate should possess deep SEO expertise, excellent analytical abilities, and experience in multi-market environments. This full-time position offers an opportunity to influence and advance a company's growth trajectory through innovative SEO practices.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of search intent and SEO fundamentals.
• Excellent analytical skills translating data into action.
• 3-5 years of SEO experience in multi-market environments.
• Proven experience linking SEO performance to business outcomes.
• Hands-on experience with SEO and analytics tools.

Responsibilities

• Define and optimize global SEO strategy for impact.
• Drive organic lead growth focusing on high-intent keywords.
• Lead keyword mapping and content gap analysis.
• Optimize content based on performance and intent.
• Collaborate on SEO performance dashboards.
• Contribute to authority-building initiatives.
• Train internal stakeholders on SEO best practices.

Skills

Search intent understanding

Content strategy expertise

Technical SEO fundamentals

Analytical skills

Stakeholder alignment

Communication skills

Collaboration skills

Fluency in English

Education

Masters degree in marketing

Tools

Ahrefs

SEMrush

Google Search Console

Google Analytics

Google Tag Manager

Job description

Overview

QIMA is transforming its marketing organization into a modern high-performing growth engine with performance marketing data and scalability. In this context we are looking for a SEO Manager to play a central role in this transformation by leading QIMA's global organic growth strategy across all divisions.

This role will drive the shift from an agency-led model to strong in-house SEO ownership ensuring performance continuity while building long-term internal capability across regions and teams. You will be accountable for driving organic lead generation, strengthening high-intent visibility and delivering measurable contribution to the sales pipeline through structured scalable SEO frameworks.

You will work closely with Product Marketing, Content, Paid Media, and Web UX & CRO managers to ensure organic search fully supports QIMA's inbound growth.

Responsibilities

• Define execute and continuously optimize QIMA's global SEO strategy to maximize impact covering onpage and off-page SEO, website optimization, link-building initiatives, and clear playbook based on latest best practices and industry standards.
• Drive qualified organic lead and pipeline growth on priority services with a strong focus on high-intent and revenue-driving keywords.
• Lead keyword mapping and content gap analysis by product division, market, and buyer intent.
• Optimize existing content and work closely with copywriters to recommend and implement changes to landing pages based on performance, intent, and conversion data.
• Collaborate with the Analytics & Attribution team to develop and optimize SEO performance dashboards (rankings, traffic, quality, pipeline influence).
• Contribute to authority-building initiatives (thought leadership content, long-term keyword strategies, YouTube and video SERP exploration).
• Enable and train internal stakeholders (content creators, marketers) on SEO best practices and frameworks.
• Shaping AI frameworks and leveraging AI agents for SEO.

Qualifications

To succeed in this role you should have:

• Strong understanding of search intent, content strategy, and technical SEO fundamentals.
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to translate data into clear prioritization and action.
• Proven experience aligning multiple stakeholders and execution teams in a global environment.
• Ability to connect SEO performance to tangible business outcomes (pipeline, lead quality, revenue).
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to translate global SEO strategy into effective execution at the division level within a matrixed international organization.
• Fluency in English (additional languages are a plus).

Education & Experience

• Masters degree in marketing or equivalent practical experience
• 3-5 years of SEO experience including ownership of SEO strategy in complex multi-market or multi-division organizations.
• Hands-on experience with SEO and analytics tools (e.g. Ahrefs, SEMrush, Google Search Console, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager).
• Proven experience leading global or regional SEO initiatives and linking performance to business impact.
• Experience in building or actively using AI agents is a strong plus

Additional Information

If you’re passionate about people and operations management, excel in multicultural environments and are inspired to develop skills in performance management within a rapidly evolving landscape, we’d love to hear from you! Please send your CV in English.

Remote Work

No

Employment Type

Full-time