SEO Specialist - Remote

This is a remote-only role for candidates based in Malaysia.

Rare opportunity to join an award-winning Australian digital marketing agency team, delivering intelligent, creative, and high-performance SEO campaigns for Australia’s leading brands.

About us:

Living Online is a multi-award-winning digital marketing agency powered by some of the brightest minds in the world. For more than 16 years we've pushed the boundaries of digital marketing to create some of the most intelligent, creative, and outstanding campaigns that Australia has ever seen.

We’re the type of agency that turns brilliant ideas into incredible outcomes. Here’s some of our greatest hits:

• Delivering more than 30 million extra visits per year through SEO for one client alone, equating to 470% growth in a little over three years.
• Generating millions of dollars in yearly Google Ads savings for leading companies, often eclipsing 80% improvements in ROAS from previous campaigns.
• Being trusted with one of the largest Facebook Ad campaigns in Australia for six years running, enabling hyper growth for one of Australia’s best-known and fastest-growing brands.
• Growing multiple publishers and SaaS companies through to $100m+ acquisitions and public listings.
• Designing and developing websites that power some of Australia’s well-known companies and winning a bevy of awards for this work.

About the role:

Our team is growing fast and embracing new challenges, so we're looking to hire a new SEO Specialist to join our team.

This is a fast-paced and fast-growth position. As a member of the Consulting team, you will be delivering SEO campaigns for a diverse group of clients.

Reporting directly to the Managing Consultant, your key responsibilities will include:

• SEO analysis - conduct SEO Audits, perform technical SEO analysis, implement on-page SEO improvements, conduct SEO research, perform SEO gap analysis (future state vs current state), and uncover meaningful and actionable insight.
• SEO strategy - assist with the development of SEO strategies, the planning of SEO campaigns, the creation of SEO-optimised site architectures, the development of SEO content plans, and the synthesising of SEO campaign activities and results into digestible and meaningful client reports.
• SEO delivery - execute SEO campaigns and implement SEO specifications, ensuring a high quality of outcome and alignment between all SEO sub-functions, and optimising SEO campaigns to meet performance targets.
• SEO knowledge – be an expert with SEO tools, systems, and frameworks, including technical SEO, site architecture, content, and on-page, while also maintaining a strong strategic working knowledge of off-page SEO and broader marketing disciplines.
• SEO troubleshooting - provide SEO advice to other consultants, identify SEO issues, troubleshoot technical SEO problems, and make both data-driven and intuitive recommendations for actionable improvement to other team members.
• Quality focus - manage workloads autonomously, embrace problems, collaborate effectively, deliver high-quality work on time and budget, adapt quickly, solve issues proactively, and take pride in producing excellence.
• Client engagement - build strong client relationships, tailor recommendations to goals, deliver excellent service, earn positive feedback, and take ownership of agency success.
• AI & emerging technologies – embrace your AI-obsession and voracious appetite for learning to take an AI-first approach to reimagining SEO, building AI concepts, researching AI visibility, and contributing to our AIO/GEO service development.

What we’re looking for:

We’re seeking someone with 3+ years of experience in SEO, preferably with agency experience, ideally combined with tertiary qualifications in marketing, media, technology, or other associated disciplines. Additional digital marketing coursework or master’s level degrees will be looked upon favourably.

You will have expert-level experience with:

• SEO Tools – including Ahrefs, Semrush, Screaming Frog, Google Search Console, and Bing Webmaster Tools.
• SEO Technologies – including XML sitemaps, schema, structured data, mod_rewrite, 301 redirects, robots.txt, meta tags, and other core SEO fundamentals.
• CMS – WordPress, Shopify, and other popular CMS, as well as the ability to recommend SEO strategies that consider broader UX considerations.
• Data – analysis, reporting, and data visualisation capabilities, enabling you to make insightful decisions and recommendations.

Bonus points if you can also demonstrate experience and capabilities with:

• GA4, GTM, Looker Studio, and ETLs.
• Advanced HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP.
• Strategic working knowledge of Google Ads, Meta Ads, Organic Social, Remarketing, Email Marketing, Brand, UX, Web Design, Web Development, Copywriting, and Graphic Design.
• Experience developing AI automations and building AI agents.

Most importantly, you will demonstrate an understanding and enthusiasm that goes beyond your professional experience. You will be especially hungry to learn and develop in areas where you don't yet have capability.

As the successful candidate, you will be an individual who thrives in a small and dynamic agency that punches about its weight, possessing the ability to collaborate with team members, whilst enjoying the autonomy to immerse yourself in challenges.

What’s on offer:

When we invite you to join the team, we’ll be offering you:

• A competitive salary and upwards career mobility.
• An unparalleled commitment to your fast-tracked learning and growth.
• A high-calibre peer group and an industry-leading agency team.
• A remote working environment that includes travel perks.
• Weekly team events, monthly team socials, and a great culture.

Your application:

To apply, please provide your resume with an accompanying cover letter that describes how your experience matches the role and why you think you’re a great fit for the team.

We appreciate the time taken by candidates in submitting your application and would like to respectfully advise that only short-listed candidates will be contacted.