SEO Specialist

JR United Kingdom; York; Remote; GBP 30,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Shopify Plus Partner Agency is seeking an experienced SEO Specialist to expand its growing SEO team. In this role, you will deliver strategic and hands-on SEO services to ecommerce clients, collaborating with various departments to drive growth. With a flexible, fully remote working culture, and attractive benefits including health insurance and holiday allowances, this position is ideal for candidates looking to advance their careers in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

10 days company sick-pay allowance

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Flexible, fully remote working arrangements

Private health insurance

40% gym-membership discount

Paid bereavement leave

Company pension

Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

Qualifications

• 2+ years’ SEO experience, ideally in ecommerce.
• Strong knowledge of technical SEO.
• Familiarity with HTML and key SEO tools.

Responsibilities

• Manage and nurture SEO strategies for clients.
• Conduct website audits and perform competitor analysis.
• Write optimised metadata and monthly reports.

Skills

Technical SEO

Keyword Research

Competitor Analysis

Communication

HTML

Tools

GA4

Google Search Console

Ahrefs

SEMrush

Screaming Frog

Job description

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Eastside Co is a leading Shopify Plus Partner Agency specialising in ecommerce website design, development and marketing solutions. We collaborate with ambitious brands to help them scale their online presence and achieve their business goals.

Role Overview

About Eastside Co

Eastside Co is a leading Shopify Plus Partner Agency specialising in ecommerce website design, development and marketing solutions. We collaborate with ambitious brands to help them scale their online presence and achieve their business goals.

Role Overview

Due to continued growth, we’re expanding our SEO team and are seeking an experienced SEO Specialist. You’ll deliver strategic and hands-on SEO services for our ecommerce clients, providing guidance to a range of Shopify brands. Working closely with colleagues across strategy, content and development, you’ll build and execute SEO roadmaps that drive meaningful growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and nurture SEO strategies for Eastside Co clients, ensuring best-practice implementation and maintaining a forward-looking roadmap.
• Conduct website audits and health checks, identifying issues or opportunities and scheduling tasks to address them.
• Perform keyword research to uncover high-value terms and phrases to target.
• Carry out competitor analysis to benchmark performance and spot gaps.
• Write optimised metadata, on-page copy and blog content.
• Produce clear, insight-driven monthly reports that demonstrate progress and value.
• Source link prospects and run outreach campaigns to secure high-quality backlinks.
• Oversee platform migrations from other technologies to Shopify, safeguarding organic visibility.

Qualifications

• 2+ years’ SEO experience (agency or in-house).
• Robust knowledge of technical SEO (e.g. canonicalisation, crawling, schema).
• Working understanding of HTML.
• Proficiency with GA4, Google Search Console, Ahrefs, SEMrush and Screaming Frog.
• Ability to translate complex SEO concepts into plain language for any stakeholder.
• Experience in ecommerce, ideally on Shopify.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Benefits

• Salary band for this role is £30k – £35k.
• 10 days company sick-pay allowance, increasing by 3 days per year of tenure.
• 25 days holiday, increasing by 1 day per year of tenure, plus bank holidays and a week off at Christmas.
• Flexible, fully remote working arrangements and parent-friendly culture (open to candidates across the UK).
• Private health insurance.
• 40 % gym-membership discount.
• Paid bereavement leave.
• Company pension, enhanced maternity and paternity leave.

Eastside Co is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees: 40 % of our workforce is female and 50 % of senior leadership positions are held by women.

Despite our small team size, our diverse workforce can speak over 15 languages including Spanish, Yoruba, French, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Bemba, Nyanja, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Portuguese, Creole, Romanian, Italian, Hindi, Punjabi, Sinhalese and English.

We utilise blind recruitment; images and names are redacted during screening to remove any risk of unconscious bias. Please note that emails sent directly to a hiring manager before an invitation to interview will not receive a response for this reason.