SEO Account Manager

The Digital Maze; Derby; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Join The Digital Maze as an SEO Account Manager, where you'll lead SEO strategies for clients, ensuring their marketing goals are met through innovative and effective approaches. With a supportive team and ongoing training, you'll thrive in a hybrid working environment in Derby, enjoying competitive salary and benefits.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Free day off for your birthday

Annual pay reviews

Cycle to Work scheme

Enhanced Maternity pay

Company-paid social events

Qualifications

• At least 3 years’ experience in an SEO-oriented role.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Experience in planning and implementing organic strategies.

Responsibilities

• Manage a list of clients and help them achieve marketing goals.
• Plan and implement SEO strategies aligned with client objectives.
• Communicate and report back to clients on strategy progress.

Skills

Communication

Attention to detail

Strategic thinking

Client relationship management

Education

Undergraduate degree in marketing, media, or communications

Tools

Google Analytics

Google Search Console

Screaming Frog

SEMrush

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Incoming SEO Team Lead at The Digital Maze, currently SEO Account Manager

We're looking for a talented SEO specialist to join our team. You'll manage your own list of clients and help them achieve their marketing goals through creative thinking, strategic insight and hands-on SEO expertise. Your day-to-day will include a wide range of SEO activities such as on-page optimisation, technical SEO, ecommerce SEO, international SEO, local SEO, auditing, keyword research, link building and collaborating on SEO-driven copywriting. You'll have the full support of a knowledgeable team and access to ongoing training tailored to your progression goals, so that you can continue to deliver outstanding digital results.

Salary: Up to £36k

Holiday: 25 days plus bank holidays and your birthday

Hybrid working, based in Derby

Here's what you can expect to be doing daily when you join our team:

• Plan short and long-term organic strategiesin line with client goals. You'll be responsible for planning, prioritising, implementing and reporting technical, on-page and off-page organic SEO.
• Implement optimisation tacticsthat sit within your clients' budgets while considering user experience and brand strategy.
• Work with the wider team, including the copywriting, creative content, PPC, web dev and social teams, to create multi-discipline strategies, ensuring that everything we do works towards short and long-term objectives.
• Communicate and report back to clientson where we're at with their strategy, feedback on progress and discuss the next steps.
• Develop and maintain long-lasting client relationshipsby always doing what's best for them and communicating clearly.
• Help to streamline internal processesto improve the performance of our client projects. We are always eager to learn and improve.

Essential Skills and Experience

We're more interested in the person behind the role, but it would be invaluable if you had the following:

• At least 3 years’ experience in an SEO-orientated role, this could be in-house or agency side. You'll have the freedom to direct your strategies how you see best, so we'd love to hear about previous campaigns you've led on.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to effectively liaise with clients, present strategies and explain performance data in a clear and engaging way.
• Experience in planning and implementing organic strategies. You'll be working with a great team of specialists across multiple disciplines to help you achieve fantastic things for your clients.
• Attention to detail. So you can get to the heart of what your clients want and need and implement plans to achieve them.
• Good numeracy, written and verbal skills.
• Proficient in Google Analytics and Google Search Console. We can help you learn and deepen your knowledge; however, we do ask that you know the basics already.
• Proficient in Word and Excel and similar tools so that we can send all key information to clients in an accessible format.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a growing team.
• A mindset for continuous learning. We're looking for someone who loves to keep up with best practices, technology, and tools.
• Quick-thinking. While we all work together to get the best results possible, you will have full autonomy and responsibility for your SEO accounts.
• Working knowledge of digital tools such as Screaming Frog, Sistrix, Sitebulb, SEMrush, KWFinder and more.

Additional Skills

These aren't essential, and we offer training as part of this role; however, we'd love to hear if you have the following:

• An undergraduate degree in marketing, media, communications, or other creative disciplines such as English or similar.
• Good understanding of HTML and CSS.
• An accreditation in Google Analytics, Google Ads and similar.
• An understanding of digital data and how to creatively represent it to give your client full transparency and understanding of how their SEO campaigns are performing.
• Experience working with Woocommerce Wordpress websites may be beneficial, though we have clients across a range of CMS platforms.
• CRO experience and an understanding of how to convert website users into customers or leads.

Who We Are

The Digital Maze is an agency that has grown via the acquisition of 3 well respected and growing agencies within the midlands

• Frogspark
• Boom Online Marketing
• Evolve Retail

We are a Strategic Performance Marketing & WordPress/WooCommerce agency dedicated to driving growth for Home & Garden, Lifestyle, D2C, SaaS, and Service brands with £5M–£50M in revenue. Our flexibility caters to businesses at different stages, offering tailored solutions that drive sustained growth.

With over 30 years of agency expertise and a track record of driving over £800m in trackable revenue, our dedicated team blends the latest technology with data-driven insights and deep market knowledge. Fully accredited at the highest level, we deliver custom solutions that transform plans into measurable results. Trusted by top brands across the Home & Garden, Lifestyle, D2C, SaaS, and Service industries, we turn strategic visions into tangible growth.

The whole business is an approximately 30-strong team of professionals working in:

• SEO
• PPC
• Web Design & Development

Here's what you can expect to get when you join our team:

• 25 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays.
• Free day off for your birthday.
• Yearly salary of £32,000 - £36,000, depending on experience.
• Annual pay reviews.
• Cycle to Work scheme.
• Hybrid working (remote & office). We ask that you visit the office on a weekly basis. If you'd like to come in more often, our office is available for you to use as much as you'd like too though!
• Excellent career progression within a growing business.
• Enhanced Maternity pay.
• Home setup; Monitor(s) & Apple equipment.
• Company-paid social events throughout the year.

Our Values

At The Digital Maze, we operate on five main values:

• Thinking big- We think big and long term, taking our clients on a continuous journey of growth.
• Customers, first- We focus on getting a return for our clients, producing work we're proud of that shows your passion and creativity.
• Committed & empowered- We are careful and considerate about what we commit ourselves and our company to. Each of us has ownership and pride in our vision and work.
• Talking straight- We are open, smart, and direct but operate with humility.
• Having fun and celebrating- We acknowledge the great results our team achieves every day, celebrating their efforts and accomplishments.

We want to continuously improve everything we do and are always open to suggestions from our team. We're committed to creating a fair and enjoyable workplace regardless of gender, race, religion, background, or anything else and will continue working to make this industry better.

• If you're passionate about SEO and want to build your career while delivering excellent client results, we'd love for you to apply for our SEO Account Manager position.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Sales and Business Development

• Industries

  Marketing Services

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