SEO Manager

This is a full-time role based in Leeds, UK. We offer hybrid working and flexible hours to everyone in the team, but this is not a fully remote opportunity, and we require you to be in the office at least 3 days aweek.

As part of our commitment to making Engage a great place to work, we’ve built a comprehensive benefits package that fuels our thriving culture and delivers an exceptional, well-rounded employee experience. Some of our most popular perksare:

• Company performance linked bonus scheme (this is depending on the business’ performance and is not a contractual benefit)
• 5% company pension scheme
• Access to financial coaching
• A company culture that promotes work-life balance
• Access to mental health support
• Free on-sitegym
• An award-winning office
• Your birthday off
• Regular socials, epic Summer parties andmore…

As an SEO Manager, you will be responsible for planning, managing and delivering SEO activity across a range of client accounts. You will work across technical SEO, content strategy, on-page optimisation, authority building, Digital PR, analytics and reporting to help clients improve organic visibility, search performance and commercial outcomes.

This role requires someone with strong agency-side SEO experience, or equivalent exposure across multiple websites, sectors and business models. You will be expected to manage your own accounts, prioritise activity effectively, communicate clearly with clients, and turn search data into practical recommendations that can be delivered by clients, developers, content teams and wider agency specialists.

The SEO Manager will need a strong grounding in traditional SEO fundamentals, including technical audits, content visibility analysis, link profile assessment, migration planning, structured data, indexation, keyword strategy and performance reporting. GEO / AEO and LLM visibility analysis are now also part of the role, but should build on strong foundational SEO skills rather than replace them.

Head of SEO / Senior SEO Manager

This is a key role for someone who wants to take ownership of SEO accounts within a fast-paced agency environment and develop into a trusted strategic lead for clients.

The SEO Manager will play an important part in delivering effective, commercially focused SEO work across retainers, projects, migrations, audits, content strategies and integrated search activity. They will work closely with the Head of SEO, Senior SEO Manager, Account Directors, developers, content specialists, Digital PR teams and Paid Media colleagues to ensure SEO is joined up with wider performance marketing activity.

The role offers the opportunity to work across a broad range of sectors, websites, CMS platforms and search challenges. The successful candidate will be expected to stay close to industry developments, understand how search behaviour is changing, and contribute to how the agency evolves its SEO, GEO and AEO services.

• Deliver client reporting aligned to SLAs, using GA4, Search Console and SEO tools to analyse performance across visibility, traffic, rankings, engagement and conversions.
• Provide clear, commercially relevant commentary that explains performance changes, identifies risks and outlines next actions.
• Contribute to integrated reporting across channels, including dashboards and cross-channel insights where required.
• Diagnose performance drivers such as technical issues, content gaps, demand shifts, algorithm updates or competitor activity.
• Ensure reporting aligns to client KPIs and focuses on meaningful outcomes rather than vanity metrics.
• Improve reporting efficiency through templates, automation and reusable frameworks.

• Confidently use core SEO and analytics tools to diagnose issues, identify opportunities and measure performance.
• Demonstrate strong experience with Screaming Frog, SEMrush, Ahrefs, Google Search Console, GA4, GTM and Looker Studio.
• Use tools to validate recommendations and support data-driven decision making.
• Maintain working knowledge of additional tools such as rank tracking platforms, outreach tools, behavioural analytics and CRM integrations.
• Stay up to date with emerging tools, including those…