Manager, SEO

Role type: Full-time
Reporting to: Senior Director, SEO
Estimated Start: September 2026
Location: Hybrid (3 days/week) in New York, New York | Arlington, Texas | Los Angeles, California | Boca Raton, Florida
Work Authorization: This role is open to US Citizens/Permanent Residents. We are unable to sponsor any work authorizations for this role.

What's the role

As a manager in SEO you’ll deliver best-in-class work for clients. You’ll apply your SEO knowledge and experience so that you have a positive impact on client deliverable and the wider team around you. You will help to define the campaign delivery plan, including objectives and ways in which work can be successful or optimized further. You will also generate and promote innovative new concepts to clients applying our test and learn approach and share successes across the practice by identifying and improving guidelines, playbooks and processes including opportunities to automate work.

So, tell me about the company

Brainlabs is culture-first. You’ve probably heard other companies describe themselves as people, clients, or profit first – but we see people, clients and profit as the building blocks of our ecosystem. Culture powers all three and we know that when the ecosystem is balanced, we all win! That's why the culture we cultivate is a culture of winning together.

To learn more about what it’s like to be a Brainlabber, check out our culture code.

What you do

• Using your practice knowledge you will be responsible for delivering highly successful, brilliant campaigns that outperform KPIs, to budget and on-time. 
• You’ll start to define campaign delivery plans and measurement targets. 
• You’ll effectively track and optimise campaigns. 
• You’ll be a point of contact for our clients on day to day tasks and deliverables.
• You’ll develop and implement, as well as follow guidelines and processes contributing to ideas around automation or process improvement. 
• You’ll actively contribute to developing best-practice  roadmap so that our SEO offering is continually developing. 
• You’ll mentor others across the practice helping to grow capability and knowledge.

Who you are

• Strong SEO delivery track record with 2+ years of experience.
• Passionate about your craft. 
• Demonstrable success in optimising SEO campaigns and work through automation, processes and technology adoption/development. 
• A good understanding about how other channels work and optimise together. 
• A confident, dynamic, engaging and authentic communicator who cares about the quality of work and continuous learning. 
• Passionate about growing the knowledge of those around you.
• Excellent  presentation skills and strong data analysis and reporting skills. 
• Strong attention to detail, methodical and process orientated.

How you succeed

• You will live our culture code every day! 
• Effective campaign creation and delivery metrics. 
• Internal targets/metrics on technology adoption and process optimisation met.
• You will hit our quality assurance metrics on all campaigns you lead. 
• Client satisfaction targets being met (internal & external).
• Learning certifications created and met across the practice.
• Active involvement in mentoring less experienced SEO colleagues. 

What happens next

We know searching for a job is tough and that you want to find the best career and employer for you. We also want to ensure that this position is the best fit for both you and us. Therefore, you will participate in a comprehensive interview process that includes skills interviews with our team. The goal of this process is to allow you to get to know us as we learn more about you.

Brainlabs actively seeks and encourages applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds and identities. 

Thank you for your interest in Brainlabs! We look forward to getting to know you!

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