Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Elk Marketing is a fast-growing digital agency serving brands with high-performance SEO, Paid Search, and Paid Social strategies. They are seeking a Senior SEO Strategist to lead strategy across a diverse portfolio of eCommerce and B2B clients, collaborating with various teams to deliver performance-driven results.
Responsibilities
- Onboard with our SEO team, tools, systems, and clients
- Get up to speed on the accounts you'll be supporting by reviewing existing strategies, campaign roadmaps, content calendars, and recent performance
- Shadow other SEO team members (Senior SEO Strategists and SEO Managers) and join client calls to understand our workflow, client needs, and cross-team dynamics
- Join internal SEO team syncs and begin 1:1s with your manager
- Own ongoing SEO strategy and reporting across your assigned client load
- Begin presenting performance insights and strategic roadmap updates in a way that feels authentic to your style
- Review SEO Specialist work for quality, consistency, and alignment with strategy
- Collaborate with SEO Managers to ensure specialty areas are accounted for within your strategy (content, technical, local- if applicable)
- Join company-wide internal team meetings such as All Hands and Team Syncs
- Lead SEO strategy and reporting across all assigned accounts with confidence
- Support roadmap planning, content calendar planning, and contribute to client QBRs alongside Account Executives and Strategists
- Be a resource for training others on SEO strategy, whether it’s mentoring a teammate, supporting an internal promotion, or helping onboard a new hire
- Start contributing to process improvements and documentation that strengthen the SEO department
- Serve as SEO Team Captain on one or more internal initiatives, such as tooling audits, reporting improvements, or documentation projects
- Lead keyword research, site audits, content strategy, and campaign planning across your assigned clients
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Account Executives, internal and/or external dev teams, and the technical SEO team to implement SEO recommendations and maintain site health
- Create and present performance reports using Looker Studio, Google Search Console, and AgencyAnalytics
- Provide input on site structure, redirects, schema, and performance-related issues, working closely with internal and client-side dev teams
- Spot trends across accounts, share learnings with the team, and recommend new tactics, tools, or testing strategies
Skills
- 5-6+ years of experience in SEO, including agency or multi-client work, with at least 1+ year of SEO technical experience
- Excited by working directly with clients such as HexClad, Built Bar, and Taylor Made
- Naturally take initiative and enjoy mentoring others
- Think beyond execution and want to shape processes, tools, and workflows
- Bring a creative and critical approach to your SEO strategy
- Interest in ongoing education of our ever-changing field (GEO, AI Optimizations, LLM Optimizations)
- Experience using Slack, Asana, Google Workspace (GSC, GA, GBP, GMC), SEMRush, Ahrefs, Screaming Frog, and any content optimization tool (SurferSEO, Frase, MarketMuse, etc.)
- Desire to grow into a leadership position within a collaborative team
- Experience leading or contributing to training programs
- Curiosity around measurement, testing frameworks, and marketing analytics
Company Overview
At elk, we build growth engines that move faster than the algorithm. It was founded in 2015, and is headquartered in West Hollywood, California, USA, with a workforce of 11-50 employees. Its website is https://elkhq.com.