[Hiring] SEO/GEO Consultant @EPAM Systems

Role Description

We're expanding our team and seeking an SEO/GEO Consultant to join us. In this position, you'll bring together hands-on expertise in Technical and Content SEO/GEO with sales support functions and stakeholder relationship duties. You'll leverage your understanding of keyword and entity research, content optimization, technical SEO, and data analysis to shape strategies that produce real, measurable outcomes. You'll coordinate with cross-functional teams to embed SEO and GEO best practices and keep digital content current with industry trends, search engine algorithms, and LLMs. You'll gain direct access to some of the field's foremost experts, benefit from premier SEO training resources, and receive ongoing support for your career growth. Want to accelerate your SEO/GEO career and get involved in some of the industry's most exciting initiatives? Let's co-create the future of SEO/GEO. Apply now!

Responsibilities

• Deliver comprehensive technical SEO/GEO audits for our website to identify areas needing improvement in crawling, indexing, and rendering.
• Lead detailed content audits and shape strategies designed to strengthen existing content performance and support growth on business-critical pages.
• Observe website performance using first- and third-party tools, analyze resulting data, and build reports that reveal trends, issues, and optimization opportunities.
• Cooperate with strategists, designers, copywriters, webmasters, developers, project managers, and other digital marketing consultants to ensure SEO/GEO best practices are consistently applied.
• Coordinate with development teams to execute SEO/GEO recommendations during replatforming projects and site updates, confirming compliance with technical SEO/GEO standards.
• Stay informed on changes to search engine and LLM algorithms, industry trends, and best practices to keep the website competitive and optimized.
• Collaborate within an international team of digital marketing consultants, each contributing their own specialized skill set.
• Contribute to work carried out for some of the largest brands globally.
• Carry out responsibilities within an Agile framework.
• Build a culture of growth by helping teammates and clients grasp the importance of organic traffic and brand visibility, and how SEO and GEO drive those outcomes.
• Generate recommendations and improvement ideas supported by both qualitative and quantitative data.
• Ensure top-quality service is delivered to clients at every stage.
• Gain mentorship from respected SEO experts while contributing to some of the industry's most challenging and rewarding initiatives.
• Support pre-sales efforts to generate new SEO/GEO business opportunities, collaborating with Account and Delivery Managers, leads, and heads to shape offerings, define project scope, and allocate resources.
• Prepare persuasive, logically structured client presentations customized to each audience and present them with confidence.
• Establish strong client relationships, particularly with leadership in relevant departments, while confidently interacting with senior client executives.
• Apply consultative expertise, balancing delivery execution with client satisfaction to build lasting relationships.
• Participate in and take ownership of initiatives at the practice level, including contributing to thought leadership efforts.
• Attend training sessions focused on practice offerings, actively applying consulting knowledge to solution design.

Qualifications

• A minimum of 5 years of relevant SEO experience with a strong technical foundation, ideally gained within a Digital Agency environment.
• At least 2 years of experience in Senior, Lead, Manager, or Owner-level positions.
• Proven track record overseeing engagements for teams of 5 or more full-time employees.
• Experience presenting and championing ideas, both technical and non-technical, to clients or other decision-makers.
• Advanced proficiency with Google Search Console for monitoring and resolving search performance issues.
• Solid understanding of Google Analytics 4 for tracking and interpreting traffic and user behavior.
• Solid understanding of PageRank and its effect on site structure.
• Solid understanding of user intent, supporting thorough keyword and entity research and mapping.
• Strong understanding of technical SEO factors affecting crawling, indexing, and rendering.
• Solid understanding of competitor analysis techniques for producing actionable data.
• Strong knowledge of essential content elements required for detailed audits that reveal optimization opportunities.
• Understanding of off-page SEO fundamentals, including site authority, backlink analysis, and digital PR.
• Solid understanding of how SEO operates within the broader digital marketing space, including multichannel marketing, SEA, CRO, UX/UI, social media, and marketing automation.
• Familiarity with wider digital marketing subjects such as paid media, conversion rate optimization, and marketing automation, with confidence discussing these with clients and cross-functional teams.
• Experience with and solid understanding of multilingual and multiregional SEO.
• Experience handling SEO migration projects.
• Understanding of E-E-A-T and YMYL policies.
• Knowledge of concepts such as Entities, NLP, sentiment, WDF-IDF, topical maps, content clusters, passage-level self-containment, entity density, and affirmative polarity.
• Familiarity with core GEO principles, including extraction pipelines and machine readability.
• Fluent English communication skills at a B2 level or higher.

Nice to have

• Understanding of Local SEO and its role in supporting regional and location-based search visibility.
• A relevant certification, which would be considered a valuable addition to your qualifications.