SEO Manager

Workshopdigital

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Location
In-Office, Richmond, Virginia
Salary
$75,000 - $80,000
Job Type
Full Time
Date Posted
November 3, 2026
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We are looking for 1 hybrid employee located in Richmond, VA, or 1 remote employee California, Texas, Virginia, New York, Illinois, Colorado, North Carolina, or Ohio.

Position Summary

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
  • Troubleshoot minor to complicated client issues independently and complex issues with support
  • 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 with occasional support
  • Create and present insightful, meaningful, accurate reports and analysis with support on complex issues
  • Execute the Workshop Digital client flag process and proactively identify resolutions
  • Go the extra mile for assigned clients within the scope of the SOW

INTERNAL COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS

  • Proactively seek and gracefully accept feedback
  • Tactfully share feedback with colleagues
  • Immediately inform SEO Team Lead of any concerns or issues from clients when appropriate
  • Inform SEO Team Lead of any updates, concerns, or potential points of interest from within the digital marketing community
  • Share meaningful information that advances the team
  • Participate in the interview process
  • Lead special projects with support

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
  • May support the sales team by assisting with RFPs, presentations, audits, and SOWs 
  • Elevate client requests for SOW changes with minimal support

TRAINING

  • Regularly identify opportunities to update and expand training content
  • Occasionally develop original technical training content with QA
  • Regularly conduct team trainings to help develop team expertise
  • Read industry blogs, books, whitepapers, and articles to stay current on relevant tactics, updates, and best practices
  • Occasionally contribute thought leadership content to the Workshop Digital blog and the industry
  • May serve as a mentor for junior team members

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, with respect to:
    • Building strong relationships
    • Identifying, projecting, setting, and hitting client KPI goals
    • Prioritizing workload with minimal support to meet deadlines
    • Creating insightful, actionable, and accurate insights for client strategies and reports with minimal support
    • Presenting data and insights in a way that is logical, clear, and actionable with minimal support
    • Creating effective meeting agendas and leading client meetings with minimal support
    • Delivering core training, as needed
  • 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

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