Senior SEO Strategist

Ghalib Ashrafi; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work (US)

Paid learning time

AI tooling budget

Portfolio of own work

Direct client engagement

Reasonable client load

Job summary

Ghalib Ashrafi seeks a Senior SEO Strategist to independently own four to six US client accounts from audit to quarterly results. You will run technical audits, develop roadmaps, and manage client communications across time zones, without an intermediary reviewer.

The role emphasizes accountability, practicality, and staying compliant with evolving state rules. The position covers US clients with overlap hours, offers paid learning time, and a tooling budget to enable efficient delivery.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in SEO with technical depth (crawl, indexation, Core Web Vitals)
• Evidence of moving commercial numbers beyond rankings
• Comfort presenting to business owners and disagreeing when needed
• Fluency in near-me behavior and local search expectations
• Interest in how social and web affect search, even if not core duties

Responsibilities

• Run full technical audits and translate into actionable roadmaps
• Own client relationships, calls, reporting and quarterly conversations
• Manage multiple surfaces (Apple Business Connect, Yelp) and data feeds
• Ensure data accuracy across aggregators and avoid wrong records
• Treat accessibility as legal risk and monitor state-by-state changes
• Advise clients on what work is worth doing within scope

Skills

SEO strategy

Technical SEO

Client communication

Analytical thinking

Presentation skills

Job description

3. Senior SEO Strategist| Open Role# Senior SEO Strategist - United StatesFour to six US accounts, yours from the audit through to the quarterly number. The most competitive market we operate in, no account manager in between, and no senior review before your work ships.Paid task, never free work · Feedback either way · 2-3 weeks end to endLocation**Remote - United States**The Role## About this jobYou would take four to six accounts and be genuinely responsible for them: what gets audited, what gets built, what gets said on the call, and what the number does at the end of the quarter. We are small enough that there is no account manager in between and no senior person reviewing your work before it ships. That is the appeal, and also the part people find uncomfortable in the first month. This role covers our US clients across time zones, which means overlap hours rather than an offshore handoff. It is the most competitive attention market we work in, accessibility exposure is a genuine legal risk rather than a nicety, and the rules change state by state.### What you'll do* Run full technical audits and turn them into a roadmap somebody can actually execute* Own client relationships directly - the calls, the reporting and the difficult conversations* Work three map surfaces rather than one - Apple Business Connect and Yelp rank independently and never read the Google profile* Keep the data aggregators straight, because Data Axle, Foursquare and Localeze syndicate outward and a wrong record spreads* Treat accessibility as legal exposure rather than a nicety, and expect the rules to change state by state* Tell clients when something is not worth doing, including when it costs us scope### What we're looking for* 5+ years in SEO with real technical depth - crawling, indexation, Core Web Vitals, schema* Evidence you have moved commercial numbers, not just rankings* Comfortable presenting to and disagreeing with business owners* Fluency in \"near me\" behaviour, and the review-count expectations of a market that reads volume as proof* Curious about how social and web work affects search, even if you do not do either* Able to work United States client hours from wherever you are based### Nice to have, not required* Experience with service-area businesses and the rules that actually govern them* Familiarity with semantic SEO and topical mapping approaches* Some comfort with scripting or AI tooling to remove repetitive work### You'd probably be unhappy here if...* You want a defined ladder and title changes on a schedule* You prefer strategy that somebody else turns into deliverables* You would rather not talk to clients directly* You want one market with one set of rules - this one changes at every state lineWe put this on every job for the same reason we put it on every service page: finding out in month three costs us both far more than reading it now.* **The range, before the first call** - we tell you what the role pays before you spend time on it, we do not negotiate people down from it, and we will not ask what you currently earn.* **Remote - United States** - we ask for overlap hours with the team and your clients, not a chair.* **Paid learning time** - courses, conferences and certifications covered, with time in the week to use them.* **Your own tooling budget**, including AI tooling. Nobody here does a job badly because a licence was refused.* **A portfolio you keep** - with client permission, the work is yours to show.* **A capped client load** - we limit how many accounts we take on precisely so nobody carries twelve.Send us **something you have built** - a site, an audit, a campaign, a workflow, a piece of writing - along with a short note about why this role. A CV on its own tells us very little, and we would rather read one real thing than three pages of bullet points.Put **\"Senior SEO Strategist\"** in the subject line. We read every application and we reply either way, usually with a reason. If we go quiet for more than a week, chase us - that is our failure, not yours.**No recruiters or agencies, please.** We hire directly and always have.