Director of SEO

The Director of SEO will lead strategy, execution, and innovation for high-impact organic growth initiatives across a diverse client portfolio. This role combines technical expertise, content strategy, and AI-driven insights to deliver measurable results, retain clients, and mentor a high-performing SEO team in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment.

Single Grain is a fast-moving, AI-driven digital marketing agency helping top brands like Amazon and Uber grow through Paid Media, SEO, Content, and Creative — powered by a lean, high-performing team focused on smart, impactful work.

We're looking for a highly experienced and strategically minded Director of SEO to lead our organic growth initiatives and drive exceptional results for a diverse portfolio of clients. In this role, you'll own the strategy, execution, and innovation behind high-impact SEO campaigns. From technical optimization and content strategy to data-driven performance analysis, ensuring every client achieves measurable, sustainable growth.

You'll retain and grow client accounts by delivering search-everywhere strategies that increase qualified leads and customer revenue - while keeping client CSAT ≥ 8/10 and monthly churn ≤ 2%. We're scaling Single Grain, Karrot.ai, Click Flow , and future ventures into a tech-enabled growth engine, and we need proactive, decisive, results-driven leaders to fuel that momentum. If you're relentless about client success, retention, and turning SEO into revenue in an AI-first world, keep reading.

Beyond managing client strategies, you'll lead and mentor a team of SEO specialists, helping them refine their craft, expand their expertise, and deliver best-in-class results. This position requires deep knowledge of SEO best practices, strong analytical and leadership skills, and a passion for staying ahead of search trends and algorithm updates. You'll also be expected to explore and implement innovative, AI-powered solutions to improve efficiency, enhance insights, and redefine what's possible in organic search.

This role is ideal for someone who lives and breathes SEO, understands how organic search fits into the broader marketing ecosystem, and thrives in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment. You'll excel here if you're a strategic thinker who can balance hands-on execution with leadership, collaboration, and long-term vision.

Single Grain is a fast-moving, AI-driven, award-winning digital marketing agency that has been helping top brands like Amazon, Uber, and Salesforce grow since 2009. We specialize in Paid Media, Performance Creative, SEO, Content Marketing , and more — and we practice what we preach: our blog attracts over 200,000 monthly visitors , our podcast has 100+ million downloads , and 140,000+ marketers subscribe to our You Tube channel.

Beyond client work, we also build and scale our own ventures, including Click Flow (SEO experimentation platform) and Karrot.ai (AI-powered marketing automation).

We move fast, set high expectations, and leverage AI aggressively across paid media, creative, strategy, and execution. Our lean, elite team is focused on delivering smart, impactful work without bloated processes or hierarchy.

If you're self-directed, collaborative, and relentless about your craft, you'll fit right in.

• Client Strategy & Retention – Own a portfolio of 6-10 key accounts , define and track quarterly OKRs, and lead QBRs that connect SEO performance directly to pipeline growth, revenue, and client satisfaction.
• Technical & Content Leadership – Provide strategic oversight on site audits, migrations, redesigns, content gap analyses, and authority-building initiatives, ensuring all work…