Senior SEO Manager

You can lead SEO at an agency that's coasting on last year's playbook — or one that's actively rewriting it. This is the second kind.

Our client is a leading Australian full-service digital agency — part of a global network, with a long track record of award-winning work and a reputation built on search. Right now they're investing hard: new leadership, growing teams, and a serious rethink of what discoverability means as search behaviour shifts toward AI, video, and beyond the blue links. There's a major national brand joining the client roster. For a senior SEO practitioner, the timing is rare.

This is a leadership role. You'll own a patch of clients, set the SEO strategy and direction, and sit above a craft team of managers — mentoring locally and nationally, and helping define the standard the whole practice works to. You'll also be an internal voice for SEO across the wider agency, bringing solutions to other teams and helping the discipline earn its seat at bigger strategic tables. Part strategist, part leader, part internal salesperson for great search work.

What You'll Own

• Lead SEO strategy and direction across a portfolio of clients
• Set the standard — define best practice the national SEO team works to
• Mentor and grow managers and specialists, locally and nationally
• Own senior client relationships and consistently demonstrate value
• Champion SEO internally — bring solutions to other agency teams
• Help shape the agency's approach to GEO, video, and emerging discoverability

What Good Looks Like

• You've led SEO at a senior level, ideally agency-side, across technical, content, linking, and eCommerce
• You understand how SEO connects to the wider channel mix — and where it's heading as AI reshapes search
• You're fluent in Google Search Console, GA4, and Semrush, and you make the data tell a story
• You've mentored a team and lifted the people around you
• You can explain complex SEO to any stakeholder — and win the room

The Package

$110,000 package (inclusive) | Brisbane, Melbourne or Sydney | Hybrid | Permanent

Plus genuine flexibility, retail discounts and cashback, training partnerships across major platforms, 24/7 wellbeing support, and a full social calendar.

Are you 60–70% fit to the job? No worries, apply anyway and let's get a chat set up.

We require overseas applicants to have existing work rights in Australia. No sponsorship is available for this opportunity.

Kindred is a human-first talent partner for digital, eCommerce, and performance marketing professionals across Australia. We place the right people — not the most people. Every hire through Kindred includes a donation to a charity of your choosing.