Role: SEO Manager

Location: Richmond, VA (onsite 1/week)

About Clutch Creative

Clutch Creative is a rapidly growing staffing agency dedicated to identifying unreachable talent that helps businesses scale.

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The Opportunity

Clutch is seeking a SEO Manager to join our client's team.

The SEO Manager position operates at a high degree of autonomy and regularly pushes the team forward:

• Develop strategies and tactics that support client goals and drive strong organic marketing performance
• Build and maintain strong, deep client relationships with day-to-day contacts and senior stakeholders to ensure high client retention and growth
• Leverage AI-driven tools to accelerate data analysis, content auditing, and strategy development while maintaining high standards for accuracy
• Implement and test new capabilities to enable client growth

In addition, SEO Managers:

• Aid in the training of new hires on basic and standard concepts relating to SEO and GEO
• Identify opportunities to integrate AI into existing SEO workflows to improve team-wide efficiency.
• Provide support for client services deliverables during the sales process for upsells and new business

Responsibilities:

Client communication and relationships

• Develop strong relationships with clients and senior stakeholders
• Attend and participate in all meetings/calls with clients
• Communicate effectively with various audiences
• Create and present insightful, meaningful, and accurate reports and analyses on complex issues

Internal communication and relationships

• Proactively seek and gracefully accept feedback
• Tactfully share feedback with colleagues
• Inform SEO management of any updates, concerns, or potential points of interest from within the digital marketing community

Business development

• Identify new opportunities for clients to meet their business goals
• Independently identify opportunities for potential case studies and coordinate with marketing for case study development
• Manage beta tests of new services for client set
• Support the sales team by assisting with RFPs, presentations, audits, and SOWs 

Training 

• Regularly identify opportunities to update and expand training content
• Develop original technical training content with QA
• Read industry blogs, books, whitepapers, and articles to stay current on relevant tactics, updates, and best practices

Channel management

• Identify, project, and obtain client buy-in and approval, and regularly hit the KPI targets.
• Optimize client websites by managing a holistic search approach by developing and executing local, technical, and content strategies, using AI to scale planning and execution across mid-to-enterprise accounts.
• Use AI and machine learning features within Google Analytics and third-party tools to identify trends and anomalies in organic performance
• Utilize AI tools to brainstorm, outline, and draft content at scale, ensuring all output is manually refined for E-E-A-T
• Conduct comprehensive technical, content, and local SEO audits on complex issues
• Optimize client content for visibility within AI-generated search experiences (e.g., Google Gemini/AIO, ChatGPT, etc.) by focusing on authoritative citations, structured data, and conversational relevance.
• Optimize client websites through conversion rate optimization (CRO) 
• Create and prioritize strategies and supporting tactics that embody clients’ business goals
• Take ownership and accountability of client's performance by meeting and exceeding client expectations and set KPIs Setup and review Google Analytics (and any other third-party tracking software) 
• Develop and refine prompts to automate repetitive tasks like meta-tag generation, schema markup creation, and initial keyword research & clustering.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of demonstrated agency experience with mid-to-enterprise level clients
• Proven track record of managing a full client workload consisting of medium-complexity clients and some high-complexity clients. Demonstrated ability to temporarily take on additional work during crunch periods
• Familiarity with AI-native search engines and LLM-based research tools (e.g., Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, or ChatGPT).
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate AI output for "hallucinations" or inaccuracies, specifically regarding technical SEO recommendations and data reporting
• Advanced and courteous written, verbal, and visual communication skills
• Advanced-level skills in Microsoft Office and Google Workspace, particularly in Excel and Google Sheets
• Advanced-level skills with SEMrush or Ahrefs

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply today.

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