Role Description Our client, Fountain, is seeking an experienced and commercially minded Head of SEO to lead and evolve their SEO offering. This is an exciting opportunity for a strategic SEO professional who thrives on delivering exceptional client results while leading and mentoring a high-performing team. The successful candidate will combine deep technical SEO expertise with strong leadership capabilities, helping shape the future direction of the agency's organic search services. You will remain hands-on with key client accounts while driving innovation, supporting business growth, and ensuring the agency stays at the forefront of an ever-changing digital landscape. Key Responsibilities - Leadership & Strategy - Lead and develop the agency's SEO function, ensuring best practices and innovation across all client accounts. - Keep the agency informed of industry developments, algorithm updates, emerging technologies and evolving search trends. - Collaborate with wider digital marketing teams to ensure SEO strategies align with Paid Media, Measurement and Conversion Rate Optimisation initiatives. - Drive continuous improvement of SEO processes, standards and methodologies. - Coach, mentor and support team members, contributing to performance reviews and professional development. - Client Delivery - Develop and oversee SEO strategies for clients across a diverse range of industries. - Implement and manage technical SEO, content optimisation and off-page SEO initiatives. - Serve as a trusted advisor for clients, proactively communicating performance, opportunities and recommendations. - Analyse campaign performance and identify opportunities to increase organic traffic, leads and revenue. - Ensure quality assurance across all SEO deliverables. - Business Development & Thought Leadership - Support new business activities by contributing to proposals, developing SEO strategies and attending client pitches. - Represent the agency through thought leadership, industry events, networking opportunities and online content. - Trial and evaluate new tools, software and methodologies, sharing insights with colleagues and clients. - Act as the agency's SEO subject matter expert, providing guidance on complex client challenges and industry developments. - Team & Resource Management - Delegate work effectively to internal team members and external partners. - Provide clear briefs, strategic direction and constructive feedback. - Work closely with the Studio Manager to address resource planning and project delivery requirements. - Foster a collaborative, high-performance culture focused on client success. Qualifications - Minimum 5 years' experience in SEO, preferably within a digital marketing agency environment. - Proven experience leading SEO strategies that have delivered significant growth in organic traffic, conversions and revenue. - Strong leadership skills with the ability to motivate, mentor and develop team members. - Advanced knowledge of technical SEO, including diagnosing issues and communicating solutions effectively. - Strong expertise in content optimisation, digital PR, link building and off-page SEO. - Hands-on experience with SEO and analytics platforms including: - GA4 - Google Search Console - Semrush - Ahrefs - Screaming Frog - Sitebulb - Strong understanding of Google Tag Manager and accurate tracking implementation. - Experience working with content management systems. - Knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript would be advantageous. - Excellent organisational, communication and stakeholder management skills. - Commercially minded with the ability to identify growth opportunities for clients and the agency. - Reliable laptop/computer and stable high-speed internet connection. Company Description At Remote Recruitment, we specialise in helping skilled South African professionals connect with top UK businesses. Our streamlined hiring process ensures you work with organisations that value your talent and career growth. With a focus on long-term success, we provide ongoing support to make sure you thrive in your role. Join a team that appreciates your expertise – Remote Recruitment, where your success is our mission.

• Lead and develop the agency's SEO function, ensuring best practices and innovation across all client accounts. • Keep the agency informed of industry developments, algorithm updates, emerging technologies and evolving search trends. • Collaborate with wider digital marketing teams to ensure SEO strategies align with Paid Media, Measurement and Conversion Rate Optimisation initiatives. • Drive continuous improvement of SEO processes, standards and methodologies. • Coach, mentor and support team members, contributing to performance reviews and professional development. • Develop and oversee SEO strategies for clients across a diverse range of industries. • Implement and manage technical SEO, content optimisation and off-page SEO initiatives. • Serve as a trusted advisor for clients, proactively communicating performance, opportunities and recommendations. • Analyse campaign performance and identify opportunities to increase organic traffic, leads and revenue. • Ensure quality assurance across all SEO deliverables. • Support new business activities by contributing to proposals, developing SEO strategies and attending client pitches. • Represent the agency through thought leadership, industry events, networking opportunities and online content. • Trial and evaluate new tools, software and methodologies, sharing insights with colleagues and clients. • Act as the agency's SEO subject matter expert, providing guidance on complex client challenges and industry developments. • Delegate work effectively to internal team members and external partners. • Provide clear briefs, strategic direction and constructive feedback. • Work closely with the Studio Manager to address resource planning and project delivery requirements. • Foster a collaborative, high-performance culture focused on client success.

• Support content SEO, reporting and analytics, technical SEO execution, and ongoing website optimization efforts. • Conduct keyword research to support content creation, optimization, and product alignment initiatives. • Build SEO content briefs including target keywords, search intent, content structure recommendations, and internal linking opportunities. • Audit existing content for optimization opportunities, cannibalization, thin content, and keyword drift. • Optimize and score content using SEO optimization tools such as Clearscope. • Build and maintain recurring SEO dashboards and reporting in GA4, Google Search Console, Looker Studio, or Power BI. • Conduct technical SEO audits using tools such as Screaming Frog and Sitebulb. • Identify and troubleshoot crawl, indexation, canonical, redirect, and hreflang issues.

Role Description The Sr. Paid Search Specialist role is focused on defining strategy and driving success for top brands across the National, Enterprise, and Multi-Location team. In this role, you will act as an advisor and investigator, understanding the clients’ business goals, analyzing current campaigns, the results, the setup, and recommending modifications and appropriate capabilities and implementation skillsets needed to help achieve set benchmarks. This role will own the strategic recommendation elements to help campaigns reach client goals. This role will also take an active role in our pre-sales process and in making initial client recommendations prior to onboarding. The role we play is significant, and we strive to exceed our goals and client expectations while learning, growing, and having fun as a team along the way. About the job: The Senior Paid Search Strategist will focus efforts around four core functions: - Discovery - Implementation - Optimization - Results Leveraging our in-house reporting dashboards, you will identify and select campaigns to review based on shortfalls you see from established client expectations. In other circumstances, cases will come directly to you from our Sales and Brand Management team, soliciting your advice on recommendations to correct campaign performance. Some brands will be existing, while new, large brands will also be folded in as they are closed by our sales team. Our brands today are primarily focused on SEM, and you will work to ensure that this tactic is delivering stellar results across each brand and account within the brand, while helping to partner with colleagues to make strategic recommendations on how to diversify this approach through other advertising platforms. Recommended changes will then be implemented. Whether helping implement the changes directly or delegating tasks to associated client success managers attached to the brands, you will be accountable for ensuring implementation is completed correctly. From there, continuous optimization will occur with consistent reviews that you will conduct leveraging reporting tools to help tell the story to clients. Results will then be shared with internal and external clients. This is an individual contributor role with no direct reports and will own the strategic elements of the client relationship while the current/existing managers will own people management of teams and execution disciplines. Qualifications - 5+ years of experience in the digital space, in an agency environment, or in-house equivalent. - 5+ years of hands-on SEM optimization experience – building PPC campaigns from the ground up and managing them directly – with in-depth knowledge of Google Ad Platform. - Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate complex digital/search concepts. - Expert knowledge and understanding of SEM, with advanced knowledge of search impacts on social, email marketing, display, and an understanding of new media consumer behaviors and trends. - Knowledge of Google Data Studio and/or other reporting platforms, with ability to determine advertising “story” from metrics. - Ability to distill information within Microsoft Excel. Requirements - Applied experience in SEM at an expert level, with an advanced knowledge of shopping ads and paid search ads outside of search engine platforms, such as Yelp and Amazon. - Cross-section of skills spanning: - Advertising Strategy - Project Management - Technology - Attention to detail - Consumer Insights - Analytics - Implementation of Data-Driven Decisions Benefits - The annualized base salary for this role will be $70,000.00 - $85,000.00. Variable compensation is not reflected in these figures and based on the role, may be applicable. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, location, and union representation, if applicable.