We're Hiring:
SEO Director
About SearchTides
66%
Of clients get promoted from working together
75%
Of clients increased their budget in the last year
4.3 yrs
Average lifespan of a 6+ month client
3
Team members have left SearchTides in the last three years (out of 50+)
our success comes from specializing in only a few marketing services:
Including social media campaigns and paid advertising for advanced consumer, software, ecommerce, and B2B clients.
About the SEO Department
SearchTides has been an SEO agency since 2013. Lead by Derek Iwasiuk, a talented strategic SEO. We focus on difficult to perform enterprise activities at scale. Our team prides itself in providing customized solutions tailored to each client’s needs. There are no cookie cutter strategies here.
Our On-Site Team consists of seven individuals ranging from Senior Managers to Senior Specialists, Account and Project Managers. Our Off-Site Team consists of over 30 people and delivers thousands of backlinks each month. We are industry agnostic and growing.
Key Roles and Initiatives
- Integrate the Chief SEO Officer’s strategy by leveraging your team, tools, and resources to deliver upon the Chief SEO’s strategic vision and clients’ needs.
- Advocate for our clients’ success like it is your own business
- Mentor the on-site team
- Own QA and delivery for all SEO deliverables
- Support ongoing business development and the onboarding of new clients

The Ideal Candidate
First, aligning with our company values is the
minimum requirement to have a conversation
- Taking ownership
- Communication
- Integrity
- Empathy
- Persistence
- Always Learning
- Stay Humble and Modest
Sound like you? Great! This should also sound like you:
- You have a passion for leadership and team building
- You have a positive attitude
- You are open minded and have a skill for creative problem solving
- Anticipating and solving problems are at the core of who you are
- You have extensive work with national campaigns (we don’t do local)
- You know how to speak with client stakeholders who have been in the SEO world as long (or maybe even longer!) than you
- Link building excites you and you can explain why it’s so critical to overall SEO results
- You love learning new strategies and making things better, even if they are already great
- Change should be a constant for you as SEO is all about iterating and improvement
- Changing focuses as priorities change doesn’t trip you up
- You love talking to clients, building relationships and trust with them, and helping our teams keep them happy
- You’re a natural leader
- You’re able to digest and implement feedback
Full Responsibilities
Must-haves:
- You are a resource for the team
- The leader and mentor of the On-Site Team
- You are responsible for upholding the quality standards and deliverables of the On-Site Team
- Creating a work environment that encourages continuous learning and creative problem solving
- Oversee training and career development for your team
- Communicating with other department leaders to ensure there’s strong collaboration
Leading the day to day execution within the SEO department including:
This role reports directly to the Head of Operations and works closely with the Chief SEO Officer (CSO), serving as second in command of the company’s SEO strategy and execution.
- Reporting to CSO and Head of Operations on the status of client accounts, such as:
- Overall campaign health
- Specific KPI related campaign progress
- Any proactive measures that should be taken
- Work with On-Site Team to ensure all client reporting and meeting content is at our standards and delivering the highest level of value to our clients
- Implementing vision for new types of link building, on page strategies, website architecture, and other internal R&D projects
- Working hand in hand with Project Manager to ensure all tasks are appropriately prioritized
- Oversee and own the success of our clients’ campaigns
- Revenue & Profitability:
- Client retention and satisfaction
- Track and manage our department expenses, revenue and profit margin
- Strategize on ways to grow department revenue
- People Management & Development:
- Ensure there’s up to date training for new SEO team members, and cross training for other department team members
- Ensure the team structure is working well, and evolve it as needed over time
- Ensure all team members are learning, growing, receiving ongoing feedback, and working toward achieving their goals
- Ensure all team members are focused on client satisfaction and client results
- Set agenda and run recurring SEO department meetings
- Helping to source, interview and hire the right team members
Responsible for client results, client happiness, and maintaining our high quality standards across all work that we complete
- Ensure Chief SEO’s strategies are understood by clients and implemented effectively internally and externally
- Attend client meetings and ensure strategic alignment and client satisfaction
- Ensure the team has the right tools and technology to achieve great results and be innovative
- Refine QA processes as needed
- Meet with PMs/Account people (whoever owns the client relationships) to understand their POV on our client results and satisfaction
Implementing new strategies and initiatives, and rolling them out across the department
- Staying in communication with our SEO client stakeholders to understand their common business challenges, their hurdles to achieving SEO success, what success means to them, and how our teams can make their lives easier and make them look good to their bosses
- Staying on top of the latest trends within the search industry to ensure our agency deliverables are keeping up, so we’re consistently demonstrating to prospective and current clients that we’re keeping up with the latest and greatest in SEO
- Communicating with other department leaders to ensure there’s strong collaboration, shared learnings, joint problem solving, and that we’re optimizing our ability to cross sell services
Sales & New Business
- Assist with RFPs/RFIs
- Help ensure SEO go to market and sales strategy and case studies are helping sales with winning new business
- Help develop, manage and iterate on our SEO offering, leveraging feedback and pitches with new business prospects as well as collaboration with Sales to ensure our SEO offering is strong and competitive.
More About SearchTides
SearchTides has been fully remote since 2015. We've built a remote culture that, balances time
away from screens, still strives for excellence, and does it all while having a good time.
We also have:
Monthly guest speakers
(everything from house plants to mixology sessions)
Ten company-wide federal holidays off per year based on US calendar
Winter break shut down!
In addition, our office is closed the last week of the year (yes, it's PTO!)
Plus, 15 additional days of PTO
Plus, you get your birthday off.
And you get to come back to a slew of happy birthday messages in Slack.
You receive a fancy laptop + any monitor needs
A healthcare reimbursement plan
A sponsored mental health program

Compensation
Salary for this role is determined based on:
- Agency experience
- SEO ability
- Department leadership experience
- Director experience
- Sales enablement experience
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