SEO Senior Manager

We are looking for an experienced, Arabic-speaking Senior SEO Manager to lead SEO strategy and delivery for clients in Saudi Arabia. The successful candidate will combine strong technical SEO expertise with content and off-page SEO capabilities, while confidently managing client relationships, presenting recommendations, and translating data into clear business actions. The role requires both hands-on SEO delivery and strategic account ownership, with a clear focus on qualified traffic and commercial impact.

• Develop and lead comprehensive SEO strategies aligned with client objectives, market opportunities, and commercial priorities.
• Manage a portfolio of client accounts, understand their objectives, set realistic expectations, and own SEO performance from strategy through execution.
• Set clear priorities, roadmaps, KPIs, and measurement frameworks focused on qualified organic traffic, conversions, and business value—not traffic volume alone.
• Monitor search trends, competitors, algorithm updates, and emerging developments in AI search and GEO to identify opportunities and risks.
• Provide strategic direction to SEO specialists, content teams, developers, and other internal stakeholders.

• Translate technical findings into clear, prioritised recommendations for development and product teams, including expected impact and implementation requirements.
• Support website launches, redesigns, platform migrations, and domain or URL changes, ensuring SEO risks are identified and controlled.
• Validate implementations through crawling, log analysis, Google Search Console, analytics platforms, and other relevant SEO tools.

• Develop content and on-page SEO strategies based on keyword research, search intent, audience needs, and competitive gaps.
• Identify commercially valuable keyword opportunities for landing pages, category pages, articles, and other search-led content.
• Guide the creation and optimisation of Arabic and English landing pages, category pages, product or service pages, articles, and other search-led content.
• Review content briefs and page recommendations to ensure strong metadata, headings, internal linking, topical coverage, and user experience.
• Work closely with content and localisation teams to ensure Arabic content is natural, culturally relevant, and appropriate for the Saudi market.
• Apply E-E-A-T principles and appropriate quality standards, particularly for YMYL websites and other highly scrutinised sectors.

• Develop sustainable off-page SEO and digital authority strategies aligned with brand, quality, and risk standards.
• Identify relevant link-building, digital PR, partnership, citation, and content-placement opportunities.
• Evaluate backlink profiles, monitor link quality and competitor activity, and address potential risks.
• Coordinate with internal teams and external partners to deliver measurable improvements in authority and organic visibility.

• Act as a senior day-to-day SEO contact, building trusted relationships with client stakeholders.
• Communicate complex SEO topics clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences in Arabic and English.
• Prepare and deliver strong client presentations, performance reviews, strategic recommendations, and executive-level updates.
• Manage expectations, challenge constructively, and ensure actions, responsibilities, and timelines are clearly understood.
• Collaborate with account management, paid media, content, analytics, development, and other specialist teams to deliver integrated solutions.

• Fluent Arabic speaker with strong professional English communication skills.
• Minimum 5 years of professional SEO experience, including ownership of complex or large-scale websites and senior-level client relationships.
• Advanced knowledge of technical SEO, content strategy, on-page optimisation, and off-page SEO.
• Proven ability to turn audits and performance data into prioritised, commercially relevant actions.
• Strong knowledge of Google Search Console, GA4, crawling tools, keyword and backlink platforms, and SEO reporting solutions.
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