Senior SEO Strategist

About DCB Digital

We're a Brisbane, Australia-based SEO agency working with trades, professional services, and financial services businesses across Australia. Our clients are real operators with real revenue, not affiliate sites or thin content plays. We deliver measurable outcomes, work from documented systems, and don't tolerate drama or chaos.

Our three values are simple:

• Own the outcome
• Follow the system
• Stay sharp

If those land for you, keep reading. If they don't, this isn't the role.

The role

We're hiring a Senior SEO Strategist to own the quality of our delivery. You'll work directly with the two founders and become the senior production lead behind every active client account.

Full-time, fully remote, AEST overlap hours required (Brisbane time, GMT+10).

You will own

• Content quality control on every client deliverable before it goes out
• Technical SEO decisions across all accounts (audits, schema, Core Web Vitals, indexation, site architecture)
• On-page optimisation strategy for every client portfolio
• Day-to-day management of our offshore freelance pool (writers, link builders, technical specialists)
• Monthly reporting QA before client reports are sent
• Strategy input on every active campaign through our internal AI platform

You will NOT own in the first six months:

• Client-facing strategy calls
• Sales conversations
• New client onboarding

This is a behind-the-scenes senior role. The founders handle clients. You make sure the work is exceptional.

Who we're looking for

Must-haves:

• 5+ years agency-side SEO experience, with a real portfolio of clients you can speak to
• Strong technical SEO. You can explain Core Web Vitals fixes, schema implementations, indexation diagnostics, and log-file analysis without Googling
• Proven content strategy capability. You've planned calendars, written briefs, edited senior writers
• Native or near-native English, written and spoken. Australian/UK English preferred for written work
• Comfortable managing freelancers and contractors. You've held people accountable before
• Demonstrated experience with local SEO and Google Business Profile work
• High agency and drive. You finish what you start. You don't need to be chased. You take ownership without being asked

Nice-to-haves

• Australian or UK market experience
• Confident in Semrush, Ahrefs, GSC, GA4
• Familiar with ClickUp
• Heavy AI tool user (Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity) in your existing SEO workflow
• Experience with service-based businesses (trades, accountants, financial advisers, legal)

Don't apply if

• You're running this alongside two other client gigs
• You can't work consistent AEST overlap hours
• You've never been responsible for delivery quality across a portfolio
• You need to be told what to do every day

Compensation

• Competitive Remote Senior Package
• Performance bonuses tied to client retention and ranking outcomes
• Paid time off
• All software subscriptions provided
• Clear growth path to Head of Delivery within 18-24 months as we scale

We will pay above the offshore average for proven seniors. We expect senior-level work in return.

How to apply

We're filtering for agency and drive, not just technical capability. Send the following to ***email_hidden*** with the subject line "Senior SEO Strategist - [Your Name]":

1. Your CV
2. A 200-300 word response to: "Tell me about a time you took ownership of a problem that wasn't yours to solve, in a previous role. What did you do, and what happened?"
3. A 150-200 word response to: "What's the single most impactful SEO change you've made for a client in the last 12 months, and why did it matter for their business?"
4. A link to one piece of SEO work, writing, or strategy you're genuinely proud of (with brief context on what it was)
5. Your earliest possible start date

We will not respond to CV-only applications. If you skip the questions, you're not shortlisted.

Selection process

1. Application review (within 7 days)
2. Loom video (5mins) - for shortlisted applicants only
3. Initial video interview (45 minutes) with founders
4. Paid trial project (Approximately 5-7 hours of work) - a real client audit and 30-day priority plan
5. Final interview with both founders (60 minutes)
6. Reference checks
7. Offer

Total timeline: 2-3 weeks from application to offer.

Why work with us

• Two founders who respect your time and pay above market for seniors
• Documented systems, real SOPs, no client babysitting
• Australian agency experience on your CV
• AI-leveraged workflows. We built our own multi-agent SEO platform you'll use daily
• Long-term role. We hire deliberately and keep our team

We're not a churn-and-burn agency. We're building something serious.