SEO Strategist

The Job at a Glance

CSTMR (pronounced “customer”) is a leading digital marketing and design agency serving the high-growth sector of financial services and fintech. We have found great success helping our clients launch, grow and meet their lofty goals, and now are looking to add an experienced SEO Strategist (and an overall good person) to our expanding team — someone with a head for organic growth, detail orientation, broad digital marketing knowledge, and the ability to lead our SEO efforts and provide sound, thorough SEO advice to our clients.

In this role, you will have the unique opportunity to be the SEO expert and leader of our clients’ engagements, working alongside an experienced team of digital marketers and account managers. You will be responsible for researching, analyzing, and auditing SEO elements for our clients and building detailed, proven strategies and tactics to put into action. Our team will look to you as our leader for SEO knowledge, strategy, and tactical implementation.

Role and Responsibilities

Now that you have an overview of the position, here’s a more detailed look at what you’ll be doing as a SEO Strategist with CSTMR.

  • Serve as our leader for SEO services, knowledge, and strategies
  • Audit & analyze client websites, domains and other SEO elements
  • Conduct keyword and competitor research as the foundation of your strategies
  • Craft strategic recommendations and tactical roadmaps for clients
  • Implement tactics as needed
  • Staying current with latest update and trends
  • Play a central role in website build/rebuild projects, providing input on site architecture, key content, URL mapping, and metadata
  • Lead and define our best practices for on page, technical and off site SEO.
  • Help to continually define and improve our SEO services for clients
  • Consistently work to educate and train our team to build their understanding of SEO principles.

Requirements to be Considered

In addition to being an exceptional communicator, being trustworthy, dedicated, having a good heart, and the skills and talent to match, you need to meet this list of requirements to be considered:

  • Your 2+ years of full-time SEO experience has built up a deep understanding of SEO, through designing and managing campaigns.
  • You can easily communicate the pillars of SEO, and plan out how a client should utilize them.
  • You possess a good understanding of different areas of digital marketing beyond SEO.
  • Ability to manage complex projects and campaigns with minimal direction
  • Excellent team, client-facing, and internal communication skills
  • Ability to take and give clear direction
  • Take ownership for everything you touch and be driven to produce high quality
  • Be honest, transparent, respectful, and altruistic in your interactions
  • Can embrace, quickly learn, and utilize new technology platforms
  • College degree in marketing, communications, design, technology or similar

Skills and Certifications

These skills and certifications are not required but are strongly recommended to be successful in this position.

  • Certified or experience working with Google, Bing and other search engines
  • Certified or experience working with Google Analytics, Ahrefs/SEMrush, and other analytics tools
  • Knowledge working with Google Apps (mail, calendar, drive, etc.), Slack, Monday.com (or similar project tool)

Some perks of working for CSTMR

  • Competitive pay and benefits, including profit-sharing, health insurance, technology stipend, paid time off, and a 401k plan
  • Good-hearted, passionate, achievers, excited to help new team members succeed and grow
  • A fully-distributed team with the flexibility to work from home or acceptable locations

A Bit More About CSTMR

Our mission is clear.
CSTMR steers clients to be unique, different, better, and above all — not boring. That’s how we help financial services companies grow by standing out from the everyday ho-hum. And digital work for financial and fintech clients is all we do. Pretty easy to remember, and even easier to sell our expertise.

The work is meaningful.
Financial wellbeing means something different to everyone, but our communities need it to thrive. By making financial services more accessible, understandable, and fair to anyone, we can help make life better for everyone. We help startups succeed and established companies grow – companies that have the power to make a positive difference financially in people’s lives. We truly are making a difference in the world.

Your passion is welcomed.
You get to bring your true self to work every day – we’ve learned that bringing together a diverse group of people and minds from around the globe means we make each other better. (And did we mention that we are, and have always been, fully remote?)

Learn more about us

Our Services
Our Clients

From banks and lenders to payments and investing, our work spans the financial landscape.

Our Mission & Team

We are marketing experts invested in promoting financial well-being for everyone.