Search Engine Optimization Manager

We’re hiring an SEO Manager to lead and grow SEO at Posted Social.

Posted Social is a fast-growing, full-service marketing agency in St. Louis. We don’t outsource, white-label, or hand clients off to freelancers. The people doing the work always know the businesses they’re doing it for.

In this role, you’ll own SEO strategy and technical SEO across our client base, lead our web and SEO team, and build out the department as we grow. It’s for someone who loves the technical side of search, is hungry to join a growing organization, and is ready to take a department to the next level. This is a hands-on role. You’ll do the work yourself and lead the team doing it with you.

Here’s what you’ll own:

• SEO strategy across a book of client accounts, prioritizing the work that actually moves leads and revenue for each one
• Technical SEO: audits, site architecture, crawlability, indexation, Core Web Vitals, page speed, and schema
• The technical side of WordPress: performance tuning, plugin and caching conflicts, redirects, and migrations, so new builds launch gaining search visibility instead of losing it
• Local SEO and Google Business Profiles, plus visibility in AI search and generative engines
• Measurement and reporting through Search Console, GA4, and our ranking tools, tying search performance to leads, bookings, and revenue instead of vanity rankings
• Our SEO SOPs and tool stack. If there’s a better way to do something, we want you to bring it to us.

You’ll report directly to ownership and work closely with our web designer on site builds and performance, our copywriter on blog and SEO content under your strategy, our ads and tech team on tracking and attribution, and our account executives to explain your work to clients in plain English.

The skills and experience we’re looking for:

• 2+ years of hands-on SEO experience with a strong technical foundation (agency experience managing multiple client accounts is a big plus)
• Deep WordPress skills. You can diagnose speed issues, plugin conflicts, and indexation problems on your own. Bricks experience is a bonus.
• Fluency with our stack: Google Search Console, GA4, Bing Webmaster Tools, Microsoft Clarity, Semrush, BrightLocal, Screaming Frog, Rank Math, and Perfmatters
• Experience with Google Ads and Local Services Ads is a bonus
• You use AI tools like Claude to work faster and smarter, without letting them do your thinking for you
• A clear point of view on where search is going, including AI search
• Experience leading projects or people, or a real drive to grow into leading a team
• The ability to explain a technical problem to someone who isn’t technical without making them feel dumb

We’re building a team we plan to grow with for a long time, so we care about character as much as capability:

• You’re ambitious. You want to build something, not just maintain it, and you want your career to grow as fast as the company does.
• Your standards are higher than anyone else’s for your own work. You don’t need someone checking behind you, and “good enough” bothers you.
• You take pride in your work, including the parts nobody sees, like a clean redirect map or schema that validates on the first try.
• You’re team-first. You make the people around you better, share what you know, and care about the client’s result more than your own credit.
• You own things. When something breaks, you diagnose it, bring a solution, and follow through without being asked twice.
• You’re curious and coachable. Search changes constantly. You like that, and you’re always pushing yourself to learn.

If you’re looking for a place to quietly do tasks and clock out, this won’t be a good fit. We’re looking for someone who wants to be an integral part of a fast-growing, high-performance team.

This is a starting salary with real room to grow. Pay starts at $65,000–$80,000 depending on experience, with a performance and compensation review at 90 days, a quarterly team bonus, and an annual performance-based bonus. As the SEO department grows, this role grows with it in scope, team, and pay.

Benefits include medical, dental, and vision, a 401(k) with employer match, and 10 days PTO plus paid holidays. This is a full-time, in-person role at our St. Louis office, with a target start date of December 2026.

To apply, submit your application here on LinkedIn, then email [email protected] with the subject line “SEO Manager: [Your Name]” and a short answer (300 words max) to this question:

Pick any local St. Louis business and look at how it shows up in search today. What’s the biggest SEO opportunity it’s missing, and what would you do in your first 30 days to go after it?

Use whatever tools you want, AI included. We’re evaluating your thinking. Applications without an answer won’t be reviewed.