SEO Manager – Digital Agency

In agency land, two years counts as a long stay. At this agency, people stay six, seven, eight.

That one fact tells you almost everything.

People stay because the place is built around trust. You own your accounts and make your own calls, without answering to four people for every decision. They hire for that, structure around it, and protect it. The human side is just as deliberate: the team breaks for lunch at the same time, there are monthly lunches and monthly drinks, and they hire with that atmosphere in mind rather than just the CV. It is a team that genuinely likes each other, doing award-winning, properly current work, with AI and GEO built into how they operate. The kind of place where you build real relationships with the peers who back your work.

They work with some of the most interesting household retail and eCommerce names in Australia. You turn national SEO strategy into real delivery across technical, on-page, content and authority, you front the client day to day, and you help grow the specialists coming up behind you. It is autonomy and accountability in equal measure, on work you can be proud to put your name to.

What you'll own

• Lead SEO delivery across a portfolio of enterprise accounts, start to finish
• Drive the technical, on-page, content and authority work behind the strategy
• Front the client relationship day to day and explain performance like you mean it
• Use AI and automation to take the grunt work out of execution
• Bring on the SEO specialists and coordinators coming up behind you
• Hold the line on QA, documentation and reporting standards

What good looks like

• You've delivered hands-on SEO across technical, on-page, content and authority, agency-side
• You've handled enterprise or eCommerce and fashion accounts and held the room on performance
• You know GSC, GA4 and the modern stack well enough to diagnose fast
• You're genuinely interested in where AI and GEO are taking search, not hiding from it
• You want autonomy, and you can carry the accountability that comes with it

The package

$100,000 package (inclusive). Permanent. Melbourne, hybrid. Real autonomy, a strong learning culture, monthly team lunches and drinks, and award-winning work to put your name on.

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.