Role Overview
- Define and lead the organic strategy aligned to revenue, customer acquisition, and category growth targets
- Identify defensible growth opportunities across technical, content, AI, and social search ecosystems
- Embed SEO into product development cycles and roadmap planning
- Lead advanced technical initiatives across site architecture, indexing, rendering, structured data, Core Web Vitals, and crawl efficiency
- Use log file analysis, crawl diagnostics, and automation to proactively optimise how search engines & LLMs interact with the site.
- Shape Uswitch’s strategy for AI-generated search experiences and LLM-driven discovery
- Optimise structured content and information architecture for generative search visibility
- Identify and test growth opportunities across social search platforms and emerging discovery channels
- Implement AI-enabled workflows to scale SEO insight, optimisation, and reporting.
- Work with analyst teams to enhance performance dashboards and automated insight systems
- Monitor algorithm updates, ranking volatility, and crawl behaviour to mitigate risk.
- Act as the senior SEO authority across the business
- Influence senior stakeholders with clear, commercially grounded recommendations
- Champion a culture of experimentation, testing, and continuous optimisation.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading SEO strategy within a competitive, large-scale digital business
- Demonstrable success driving organic growth tied directly to commercial outcomes
- Advanced technical SEO expertise and experience working closely with engineering teams
- Strong analytical capability, comfortable modelling opportunity and interpreting large data sets
- Experience using log files, crawl data, and automation tools to inform strategy
- Understanding of how AI and social platforms are reshaping discovery
- Confident communicator who can influence at senior levels
- Strategic thinker who balances long-term defensibility with short-term wins.
We don’t expect perfection across every area. We’re looking for someone ambitious, commercially minded, and excited to shape the future of search.
Benefits
- 10% discretionary yearly bonus and yearly pay reviews (based on RVU and personal performance)
- A hybrid working approach with 2 in-office days per week and up to 22 working days per year to “work from anywhere”
- Employer-matching pension contributions up to 7.5%
- A one-off £300 “work from home” budget to help contribute towards a great work environment at home
- Excellent maternity, paternity, shared parental, and adoption leave policy, for those key moments in your life
- 25 days holiday (increasing with years of employment to 30 days) + 2 days “my time” per year
- Private medical cover, critical illness cover, and employee assistance programme
- A healthy learning and training budget
- Electric vehicle and cycle to work schemes
- Free in-office gym, accessible 7 days a week
- Free breakfast in the office daily
- You’ll be equipped with great technology (choice of Mac or Windows)
- Free access to the Calm and Peppy app for physical and mental health
- Regular events
- from team socials to company-wide events with insightful external speakers, we want to make sure our colleagues continue to feel connected.