Technical SEO Specialist

Technical SEO Specialist – AI-Forward Role with a Connected Search Agency

I'm partnered with a fast-growing search marketing agency hiring a Technical SEO Specialist to act as the deep technical expert across their client portfolio, and to lead how the business reimagines SEO in the age of AI. This is a senior, hands-on role for someone with 10+ years of SEO experience who wants to focus on the craft, push the boundaries of what AI can do for search, and shape the agency's response to a rapidly changing landscape.

Salary: £50,000 to £60,000 Location: Fully Remote (UK-based)

The Role at a Glance

SEO is at the heart of the agency's offering and works hand-in-hand with Paid Media and Digital PR under their Connected Search model. The search landscape is changing faster than at any point in the last decade. AI Overviews, generative search, LLM-driven discovery and answer engines are reshaping how brands need to think about visibility. This role exists to make sure the agency and its clients are ahead of that curve, not behind it. You'll own the technical SEO strategy across your accounts, lead the agency's adoption of AI tooling, and define how AI is used to deliver better, faster, more commercially impactful work.

This is a delivery-focused role with no team management and no people responsibilities, designed for someone who wants to stay close to the work, the data and the results.

Day to Day, You Will

• Lead the agency's adoption of AI across the SEO function, from tooling decisions to workflow design to client-facing strategy
• Build AI-driven workflows that automate technical audits, log file analysis, internal linking, content gap analysis, schema generation and performance reporting
• Develop the agency's approach to Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO) and Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO), ensuring clients are visible across AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and other LLM-driven surfaces
• Stay at the forefront of how Google, LLMs and AI-driven search are evolving, and translate that into actionable strategy for clients
• Use AI to scale technical SEO delivery without compromising quality, including agentic workflows, custom GPTs, API-driven automation and prompt engineering for SEO outputs
• Manage your own portfolio of client accounts, owning the technical SEO strategy end to end
• Lead the most complex technical projects, including site migrations, international rollouts, and large-scale optimisation programmes
• Conduct deep technical audits and translate findings into clear, prioritised roadmaps
• Drive performance through Core Web Vitals, crawlability, indexation, structured data and site architecture improvements
• Partner with Paid Media and Digital PR colleagues to deliver fully integrated search campaigns
• Anchor KPIs to revenue, lead generation and commercial performance
• Translate the technical and complex into clear, actionable thinking clients can act on
• Support new business through technical input, audits and pitch contributions
• Spot and unlock growth opportunities within existing accounts
• Contribute to thought leadership, particularly on the intersection of AI and SEO

The Person We're Looking For

• 10+ years of SEO experience with a clear specialism in the technical side
• A genuine AI enthusiast, someone already building AI into their daily SEO workflows, not just talking about it
• Hands-on experience with tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, custom GPTs, automation platforms (Make, n8n, Zapier) and the OpenAI/Anthropic APIs
• Demonstrable track record of using AI to scale, automate or improve SEO delivery
• Active opinions on Generative Engine Optimisation, Answer Engine Optimisation and how LLMs are reshaping search
• Strong track record working on enterprise or large-scale websites
• Deep expertise across technical SEO, including site migrations, international SEO, JavaScript rendering, schema, log file analysis and Core Web Vitals
• Confident managing client relationships and stakeholders at senior level
• Commercially sharp, with a clear understanding of how technical SEO actually drives growth
• Able to simplify complex concepts into compelling narratives for non-technical audiences
• Comfortable contributing to new business pitches and proposals
• Operationally strong, able to balance multiple accounts and competing priorities
• Collaborative by nature, used to working across marketing disciplines

Why This One Stands Out

• A pure technical role with no line management, just deep, meaningful SEO work
• Genuine mandate to lead AI adoption, not a buzzword but an actual remit
• Influence over how the agency positions itself in the AI-driven search era
• Fully remote with real flexibility
• Exposure to a portfolio of well-known brands across multiple sectors
• Fully integrated search environment across SEO, Paid Media and Digital PR
• Freedom to shape technical and AI frameworks, processes and standards
• A chance to be at the forefront of one of the most significant shifts in SEO history

What's on Offer

• 30 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Additional leave for your birthday and Christmas Eve
• Pension and critical illness cover
• Training budget and access to industry events
• Clear progression and personal development planning
• Regular team socials
• Paid volunteering days

If you're a senior technical SEO who's already living and breathing AI, building workflows, experimenting with LLMs, and rethinking how search works, and you want a role where that's genuinely the point, I'd love to hear from you.