Hire an SEO manager without paying $90K+ a year. Get pre-vetted, AI-fluent SEO managers starting at $3.5K per month. We handle sourcing, vetting, payroll, and compliance so you can put one owner on your organic strategy, turn audits into shipped fixes, and see rankings tied to pipeline, without a six-month search for senior talent.
Senior SEO talent is scarce, so a local search drags on for months while your organic channel drifts. Audits pile up with no one to prioritize them, content ships without a keyword strategy, and technical fixes sit in the engineering backlog because nobody owns the case for them. You end up paying agencies for reports instead of results. Our model closes that gap. We match you with SEO managers who have owned organic growth before, in weeks rather than quarters.
Every candidate proves strategic judgment before you meet them, through structured skills-based testing, real-world scenario evaluation like prioritizing a messy audit into a one-quarter roadmap, and a hands-on AI fluency assessment. When you hire an SEO manager through us, they are embedded in your analytics, CMS, and workflows within 30 days, with all employment admin handled on our side.
An SEO manager owns your organic channel as a strategy, deciding what gets done, in what order, and by whom. That is different from a specialist who executes tasks, and it is why the roadmap finally moves.
Companies usually decide to hire an SEO manager when organic effort is happening but nothing is compounding. These are the telltale signs.
You have an audit from an agency or consultant that nobody has acted on in months
Content gets published regularly, but rankings and organic traffic have been flat for two quarters
Technical SEO fixes keep losing to product work because nobody translates them into a business case
Organic looks like your most efficient channel on paper, yet nobody on the team actually owns its number
We only work with the top 5% of candidates when companies hire seo manager through us. Every candidate is skills-tested on the exact work this role does, assessed for AI fluency on real tasks, and scored with our proprietary Remote Readiness Score — built from 1,000+ successful remote hires — before they reach your team.
Prioritizes ruthlessly, choosing the ten fixes that move rankings over the hundred that merely fill an audit
Translates technical findings into tickets engineers accept, instead of delivering audits that die in a backlog
Defends SEO investment with traffic and pipeline numbers, never with vanity metrics or ranking screenshots
Balances quick wins with compounding plays, so results appear this quarter and keep building next year
You share job description, core requirements & key skills we should screen for.
We run skills-based testing and manual screening, then deliver 3-5 candidates.
We confirm each candidate is interested in your role & aligned with your company.
You interview each candidate and, if needed, run a 1-2 hour test project.
We handle identity verification, NDA, compliant contracts & full payroll setup.
Talent is embedded into your team and works like any other team member.
Hiring an SEO manager locally typically costs $7,500 to $10,000 per month once you factor in salary, benefits, and overhead. With our model, you can reduce that cost by up to 70% while still getting a full-time SEO manager working directly inside your analytics stack, CMS, and content workflow.
We handle the employment contracts, payroll, and HR admin, so your only job is pointing them at the goal. Organic growth rewards patience and consistency, and when you hire an SEO manager who owns the channel month after month, every fix and every page stacks on the last one.
Organic traffic compounds only when someone owns it. Hire an SEO manager who has done it before, starts in weeks, and costs a fraction of a senior local hire, then watch the backlog finally shrink.
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