SEO Strategist

The Opportunity

This is a hands-on, highly analytical role for an organic search specialist who loves diving into technical details while building data-driven growth pipelines.

As an SEO Strategist, you will be responsible for dominating local and national search rankings for a portfolio of Australian clients. You will own the core delivery of technical audits, on-page optimization, and high-authority link-building campaigns. Working directly with digital teams, you will turn raw organic metrics into clear keyword strategies that scale domain authority and drive customer acquisition.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Technical Auditing & Performance Optimization

• Site Health Checks: Perform regular technical SEO crawl audits to identify and fix indexation bugs, broken redirects, and structural errors.
  
• Web Vitals Tuning: Monitor and optimize website crawlability, rendering architectures, mobile responsiveness, and Core Web Vitals.
  
• Local SEO & Citations: Build out and optimize Google Business Profiles (GMB) and clean up local citation footprints to dominate regional search results.

On-Page Strategy & Content Alignment

• Keyword Intelligence: Conduct deep keyword research, search intent mapping, and extensive competitor keyword gap analyses.
  
• Content Engineering: Map out data-driven content roadmaps and provide structural copy briefs for landing pages and blogs.
  
• Off-Page Outreach: Plan and execute off-page digital PR outreach strategies to secure high-authority backlinks safely.

Analytics, Innovation & Reporting

• Performance Tracking: Monitor keyword rankings, organic traffic, and goal conversions using Google Analytics (GA4) and Search Console.
  
• AI Search & GEO: Stay ahead of search updates by implementing Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) tactics for AI-driven search environments.
  
• Real-Time Sync: Work in total alignment with Australian time zones (AEST/AWST) to provide transparent data readouts and client updates.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Experience: ~2–4 years of dedicated experience in SEO, with a strong preference for someone from a digital marketing agency background.
  
• Tool Mastery: Deep hands-on proficiency with essential search tools such as Screaming Frog, Ahrefs, SEMrush, and Google Search Console.
  
• Technical Knowledge: Solid comprehension of technical search elements including Schema markup, XML sitemaps, robots.txt, and basic HTML/CSS.
  
• Analytical Approach: Exceptional data analysis skills with a proven track record of shifting organic traffic and ranking trends upward.
  
• Soft Skills: Clear, concise English communication skills—able to explain complex search and indexing logic to non-technical stakeholders.

WHY THIS ROLE

• Strategic Ownership: Take full control of organic growth engines for a diverse range of Australian industries and brands.
  
• Frictionless Remote Model: Work within a highly organized system backed by reliable tracking, clear campaign roadmaps, and supportive account management.
  
• Cutting-Edge Focus: Scale your capabilities by working directly on advanced modern search models like AI search integration and GEO frameworks.

ABOUT NEXT STAFF REMOTE

We bring together elite Filipino technical talent and fast-growing Australian agencies. Our mission is to make it seamless for teams and SMEs to find the perfect specialist without the overhead of a local hire. We operate at the intersection of high performance and team integration, ensuring our specialists work in real-time sync with Australian business hours to deliver exceptional digital outcomes.