Own a portfolio of 10-15 client accounts as the executive SEO voice, build C-suite relationships, drive retention and revenue growth, identify upsell opportunities, set strategic SEO/GEO direction, mentor junior team members, and integrate AI tools to improve client outcomes and team efficiencies.
Seer Interactive is a digital marketing consultancy that harnesses compassion, data, technology, and AI to make a mark on our communities—our coworkers, our clients, our industry, and our neighbors. We relentlessly pursue (and share) the truth, bringing together millions of data points from quantitative and qualitative sources, enhanced by responsible, human-centered AI. Our purpose is to unlock potential across these communities, envisioning a world where doing the right thing is intuitive and informed.
At Seer, we see AI as a catalyst for innovation, collaboration, and creativity. Regardless of your division or discipline, leveraging AI is a core part of how we deliver smarter, faster, and more strategic outcomes for our clients. Our AI Council drives company-wide integration by focusing on education, purposeful implementation, and continuous learning — ensuring that AI is embedded in how we think, operate, and grow.
If you’re ready to uplift others, challenge your ego, commit to the truth, and be better than yesterday—keep reading.
Seer is a remote-first agency and a Certified B-Corp, with team members across the country. If an office environment is more your style, this position can also sit in our HQ office in Philadelphia. We can only consider candidates based in the US who can work continental US-based hours.
The Role: You, the SEO Channel Lead, will own a portfolio of 10–15 client accounts. You will operate as the executive-level SEO voice across your book of business, not managing every deliverable, but owning the C-suite relationship, proving long-term ROI to senior stakeholders, and ensuring the account team is running toward the right goals. Though you will not manage direct reports, you will be the strategic authority your clients trust and the quality bar your account teams are held to
You’re addicted to growth and development and it shows through the success you create for the people that surround you. Could this be love? Maybe.
Role Highlights
- You will be a key player in growing divisional revenue, primarily through retaining your portfolio of clients, with a healthy dose of up-selling and cross-selling when appropriate
- You will build and maintain strong client relationships rooted in empathy, transparency, with the desire to help them exceed their goals
- You will own the executive relationship on your accounts, making inroads with CMOs and C-suite stakeholders, translating 5-year SEO and GEO ROI into terms that resonate at the leadership level, and ensuring Seer's strategic value is visible above the account team layer.
- You will actively identify upsell, cross-sell, and expansion opportunities across your portfolio — partnering with Paid Media, Creative, and Client Engagement to bring integrated growth recommendations to clients at the right moment.
- You will mentor junior team members, giving them support on their work as needed
- You'll set the bar for how Seer wins in search, across SEO and GEO , and translate that into direction for account teams rather than executing it yourself. You bring business sense to the portfolio, not just channel expertise.
- You will help define the SEO team of tomorrow, hopping in on sourcing, interviewing, and selecting new members for your awesome team
- You will drive thought leadership through sharing knowledge about the latest industry trends, tests and trials, both with Seer’s clients and the larger digital marketing community
- You understand that AI has a critical role to play in how we service clients, so you’ll leverage new tools to drive efficiencies in not only your own workflows, but test and share learnings for the benefit of the greater team
Essential Skills
- Hands-on SEO agency experience across Content Strategy, Enterprise SEO, PR, Paid Media, and/or Analytics. You drive integrated strategies, leveraging AI where appropriate to drive efficiencies, measuring the effectiveness (rankings, traffic, conversions, revenue) and always backing up your decisions with data
- You have hands-on GEO experience, you understand how AI Overviews, LLM-powered discovery, and generative search interfaces differ from traditional SEO, and you have tested and implemented strategies to improve visibility across both.
- Superb client management skills. You drive conversation with C-level executives comfortably, educating and empowering those who don’t “get” digital, while always connecting tactics to business goals
- You have strong conflict resolution skills and it shows through your ability to diffuse high-intensity situations for both clients and team members
- You have experience navigating client organizations at the C-suite level, making inroads with CMOs, framing SEO and GEO impact in business terms (revenue, pipeline, lifetime value), and earning the trust of senior stakeholders who may have limited digital marketing context.
- Consistent track record in seeing opportunities for account growth and driving increased revenue
90 Day Goals
- By Day 30, you will have completed division training and begun to support at least 2-4 impactful client initiatives
- By Day 60, you will be up and running at full capacity, supporting a full book of business
- By Day 90, you be ready to expand your portfolio by kicking off 1-2 new clients
This might not be the right role for you if
- Time-management, context-switching, and juggling multiple projects is quite challenging
- You do not want continued-learning and innovation to be an expectation
- Change management is difficult and you struggle with adapting to new tools and processes
Compensation & Benefits
- $95,000-$115,000/annually.
- Your final offered compensation will be determined based on your skills and experience
- Evaluation of comp at least once a year
- Benefit highlights
Ready to apply? Ditch the cover letter — we don’t need it. We’d rather see your AI chops. Use our Marketing Career AI Self-Assessment GPT to find out where you land on the AI marketing maturity curve and share your results with us. Our team is excited to read your application responses and will be using them to help determine who we’d like to meet with!
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As a B-Corp Certified organization, we are committed to creating an inclusive environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
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