[Hiring] Technical SEO Lead @Atomic HR

Role Description

As Technical SEO Lead, you'll be the technical SEO expert across a portfolio of higher education partner accounts. Your work improves their visibility in traditional search, answer engines, and generative AI search.

The role has two sides:

• Technical SEO: find issues affecting rankings and traffic, write specs for developers, and ensure fixes are live.
• Building Claude-based tools and workflows to reduce manual work in audits, reporting, QA, and content production.

You'll work alongside the SEO Lead and support the Executive Director of SEO.

You'll:

• Lead technical SEO across client accounts.
• Run technical audits covering:
  • Crawlability
  • Indexation
  • Site architecture
  • Internal linking
  • Core Web Vitals
  • Structured data
  • Redirects
  • Broken links
• Prioritize issues by impact and effort, and defend those calls.
• Write dev-ready specs for web developers and client teams, then follow through until fixes are released and verified.
• Handle light WordPress implementation: titles, meta descriptions, plugin-level redirects, and schema through tools like Yoast or Rank Math.
• Monitor Google Search Console and GA4 to catch drops, errors, and indexing problems before clients do.
• Own technical readiness for AI search (AEO/GEO): crawler access, structured data, entity optimization, and content structure that LLM-driven search can parse and cite.
• Build the systems that scale the SEO service.
• Design and build Claude-based tools, agents, and workflows for:
  • Technical audits
  • Issue prioritization
  • Reporting
  • QA
• Build content production systems that convert briefs, client rules, and optimization targets into near-publish-ready drafts.
• Translate team standards into reusable systems the whole team can run.
• Connect Search Console, GA4, crawl exports, and Ahrefs/Semrush into workflows that surface what needs attention.
• Document each system, train the team on it, and measure whether it saves time or improves results, retiring the ones that don't.
• Support the team and client success.
• Act as the team's go-to resource on technical questions.
• Join client calls when a deep technical topic needs expert explanation.
• Evaluate emerging search technologies and recommend new tools, processes, and workflows.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in SEO, with at least 3 focused on technical SEO, ideally at an agency or across multiple sites.
• A track record of uncovering high-impact issues on a site, prioritizing them, and getting them fixed.
• Deep hands-on experience with Google Search Console, GA4, Screaming Frog, and Ahrefs or Semrush.
• Strong working knowledge of WordPress: themes, plugins, redirects, and schema.
• Advanced, hands-on experience with Claude, including building agents and AI-assisted workflows.
• Clear written communication skills.
• Comfort owning outcomes across many accounts without waiting for direction.

Bonus Points

• Experience with the Claude API or other APIs, or basic scripting in Python or JavaScript.
• Experience with AI search visibility (AEO/GEO) and how LLM-driven search finds and cites content.
• Experience with log file analysis, JavaScript SEO, or large-scale site migrations.
• Familiarity with Grammarly, Asana, or similar tools used across content and delivery teams.
• Experience in higher education or enrollment marketing.

Benefits

• Fully remote work.
• Compensation based on experience; share your target range.
• A portfolio of higher education partner accounts with different sites and technical setups.
• Hands-on work in SEO, AEO, and GEO as AI search changes how students find schools.
• Direct influence on how the agency's SEO service runs, through the systems you build and document.

Interview Process

• Application Review: resume and SEO experience.
• Intro Call: background, technical expertise, and client experience.
• Hiring Manager Interview: SEO strategy, technical knowledge, and analytics.
• Team Interview: collaboration, communication, and problem-solving approach.
• Offer Stage: final discussions and onboarding.