Checkatrade

home improvement marketplace

SEOLead

London, United Kingdom FULL TIME
The Brief

“SEO Lead at Checkatrade. Skills: SEO strategy, technical SEO, content strategy, off-site authority, AI-driven search. Owning SEO roadmaps across technical, on-page content, and off-site authority. turning strategy into shipped improvements that move the needle on organic growth”

What You'll Achieve.

move the needle on organic growth; drive the business forward

Industry & Context.

home improvement marketplace
Problems you'll solve

technical triage

Eligibility Requirements

this role isn’t open to visa sponsorship applications

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

A solid background in SEO at scale, hands-on technical experience with crawl budget, Core Web Vitals, internal linking, indexation, and schema, a grasp of on-page content strategy and search intent, Confidence with SEO tooling day-to-day, writing skills grounded in EEAT, Google’s Search Quality Rater Guidelines, and modern search best practices, A working understanding of GEO/AEO and how content is surfaced in generative search environments, Clear, confident communication across technical and non-technical audiences, comfortable holding your own in product and engineering conversations and presenting to senior stakeholders

Nice to Have

curiosity (or eagerness to go deeper) in agentic AI workflows and automation

What You'll Do.

Owning SEO roadmaps across technical

and off-site authority

turning strategy into shipped improvements that move the needle on organic growth

Shaping how Checkatrade shows up in AI-driven search environments

building new GEO/AEO capabilities alongside the existing ones

Running structured experiments

Working closely with product and engineering to identify

and implement technical SEO improvements

Building with AI - using agentic workflows to automate content briefs

raising the bar for how we use AI across SEO and Marketing

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Working closely with product and engineering; Communicating performance clearly to senior stakeholders and cross-functional partners

Communication Scope

Communicating performance clearly to senior stakeholders and cross-functional partners; translating what’s working (and what isn’t) into decisions that drive the business forward; Clear, confident communication across technical and non-technical audiences; comfortable holding your own in product and engineering conversations and presenting to senior stakeholders

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