Search Engine Optimisation Specialist (Part Time)

Marketing Yeah!; Witney; Hybrid; GBP 22,000 - 26,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Extra holiday (up to 5 days)

EU remote up to 10 days/year

Matched charity donations

Coffee card + cinema vouchers

AI-first development tools

Job summary

Marketing Yeah! in Witney, Oxfordshire, is hiring an SEO Specialist to own organic search across our client portfolio. This broad, hands-on role covers technical SEO, link acquisition and content optimisation, with close collaboration to our Web Developer and copywriter.

You’ll join a focused weekly channel meeting and work in a hybrid pattern with a core in-office day. The part-time position is 22.5 hours weekly (Mon–Fri 9:30–14:30).

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on SEO across multiple sites/clients.
• Fluent with Screaming Frog, Semrush or Ahrefs, GA4, Search Console and Tag Manager.
• Ability to speak precisely with a developer and brief them on needs.
• Proven link-building or digital PR experience.
• Clear, jargon-free communication style.

Responsibilities

• Own organic search strategy and performance across the client portfolio.
• Run in-depth technical audits and turn findings into prioritised tickets.
• Collaborate with Web Developer to implement fixes and improve crawlability.
• Lead local SEO for multi-location clients and optimise Google Business Profiles.
• Drive content optimisation and oversee link acquisition campaigns.

Skills

SEO expertise

Technical SEO

Link building

Analytics proficiency

Client communication

Tools

Screaming Frog

Semrush

Ahrefs

GA4

Search Console

Tag Manager

Job description

Location

UK (hybrid: at least one day per week in our Witney, Oxfordshire office - Monday is our core day in the office for the whole team, with the rest of the week remote)

Hours

Part-time, 22.5 hours per week: Monday to Friday, 9.30am-2.30pm (including a 30-minute lunch), 0.6 FTE

Please Note

PLEASE NOTE THAT UNFORTUNATELY WE ARE UNABLE TO OFFER VISA SPONSORSHIP AND YOU MUST BE ABLE TO ATTEND OUR OFFICE IN WITNEY, OXFORDSHIRE ON AT LEAST ONE DAY PER WEEK

Salary

£24,000 (£40,000 full-time equivalent), plus our performance incentive plan

About Us

Ambitious marketing for ambitious people

We are the marketing team for entrepreneurs, owner-managers and private capital. Acting as an extension of our clients' marketing teams and, in most cases, as their entire in-house marketing team we have a track record of using marketing to scale fast. Our clients are ambitious SMEs, typically turning over £350k and up, with plans to scale several times over.

We adopt a scientific approach to marketing. We start at the bottom of the funnel, capturing demand that already exists, then building demand in a way that works commercially for the business. We adopt a digital-first approach to delivery, using digital tools, automation and AI to amplify accelerate impact. It works: we've helped grow a storage company from a single store in 2018 to a 30+ location national network that has attracted $250m of institutional investment.

We are now expanding our in-house team and this role is a foundational hire within it.

The Role

As SEO Specialist, you own organic search performance across our client portfolio, spanning technical SEO, link acquisition and content optimisation. It's a broad, hands-on role: one week you might be untangling a crawl budget problem or specifying structured data for our Web Developer; the next you're running an outreach campaign or rebuilding the local search presence of a 30-location national network.

You'll report to the Agency Director and work closely with our Web Developer (who implements what you specify) and our copywriter (who produce what you brief). You'll join a focused weekly channel catch-up to set direction, then own the delivery. When it comes to AI, we're using AI to significantly accelerate our workflows while retaining full human oversight to ensure we deliver quality services that retain that essential human touch. We also believe in human-generated content.

One thing we're deliberate about is who we hire. We're a small team, so how you work matters to us as much as what you deliver: we look for smart, conscientious, genuinely nice people who support the colleagues around them and take pride in doing things properly. You must be an effective communicator and be willing to pick up the phone to or jump on a video call with clients. If that describes you, you'll be at home here. At the end of each day we want you to feel like you've given your brain a real work out, delivered results and had a great time doing it!

Key Responsibilities

• Own organic search strategy and performance across the client portfolio, from audit to results
• Run in-depth technical audits (Screaming Frog, Semrush, Ahrefs) and turn findings into prioritised, actionable tickets
• Work with our Web Developer to implement fixes across site architecture, indexability, Core Web Vitals, structured data and crawlability
• Lead local SEO for multi-location clients: location pages, Google Business Profiles, citations and review strategy
• Drive content optimisation: keyword and intent research, content briefs, on-page optimisation and internal linking, with full writing handled by our copywriter
• Plan and deliver link acquisition campaigns: outreach, partnerships, resource-led content and local citations, with protected time each week to avoid off-page work becoming an afterthought
• Monitor and manage backlink profiles across the portfolio
• Track and grow visibility in AI search including within ChatGPT, AI Overviews and whatever comes next, alongside traditional rankings, and help shape our approach as the landscape shifts
• Own organic measurement through GA4, Search Console and GTM, reporting on rankings, traffic and conversions in plain English for clients
• Contribute audits and organic forecasts to new business proposals

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of hands-on SEO experience covering both technical and off-page work, ideally across multiple sites or clients
• Fluency with the standard toolkit: Screaming Frog, Semrush or Ahrefs, GA4, Search Console and Tag Manager
• Enough technical depth to speak precisely with a developer; you don't need to write the code, but you do need to specify what it needs to achieve well
• Proven link-building or digital PR experience: you've done outreach yourself and secured links you're proud of
• A clear, jargon-free communication style and able to explain why a canonical tag matters to someone who doesn’t know!
• Driven curiosity about where search is going, including AI assistants and answer engines
• Conscientiousness: you care that things are done properly, even when nobody is checking
• A supportive way of working: generous with your knowledge, straightforward and good to be around
• The discipline part-time working takes: you organise your own week, document as you go, communicate asynchronously, and deliver inside 22.5 focused hours

What We Offer

• £24,000 (£40,000 full-time equivalent), plus our performance incentive plan
• A genuinely part-time role: the 9.30-2.30 pattern is designed to fit around school hours, all internal meetings happen inside those hours and the 2.30pm finish is respected
• Holiday calculated in hours (the pro-rated equivalent of 5.6 weeks including bank holidays), so whichever days you work are treated fairly
• Our current benefits include:
  • The option to purchase up to 5 days of extra holiday (pro-rata)
  • Work from the EU for up to 10 working days every year (pro-rata)
  • Matched charity donations up to £100
  • A £50 annual coffee card and cinema vouchers (equivalent to two tickets, twice a year)
• An AI-first development environment, with the tools and licences to match
• Real scope for growth into automation and AI through our internal tooling and agency systems
• Exciting clients: ambitious, growth-focused businesses where your work visibly moves the numbers

Equal Opportunities

Marketing Yeah! is an equal opportunities employer: we welcome applications from everyone, we make hiring decisions on merit, and if you need any adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, just tell us and we'll make them.