Sr. Manager, SEO & GEO

Be one of our first hires at an agency built by founders who have done this before.

Remote, US · Full-time · Reports to Adam Edwards, co-founder

Who we are

Aftergrowth is a growth agency for mid-market brands, running digital media, performance creative and SEO & GEO. Our founders, Ken Baker and Adam Edwards, have done this before. They built Metric Theory from a one-bedroom apartment into one of the largest independent performance agencies in the country, won Ad Age’s #1 Best Place to Work along the way, and sold it to S4 Capital in 2020.

We started Aftergrowth because AI changed the job. Platforms now set the bids, pick the audience and write the fortieth headline, and they’re very good at it. But they’ll chase whatever number you hand them, whether or not it grows the business. The edge is in deciding what they learn from, what they aim at and what counts as a win. That’s the work we’re built around, and we’re hiring the people who do the steering.

How we work

• Own Your Outputs. AI can produce the first draft. You own whether it’s right.

• Live in the Frontier. AI takes on more of the execution every quarter, so you’ll keep retiring parts of your own job and turning what works into tools the whole team uses.

• Irreplaceably Human. The idea, the client relationship, the judgment call no model will make for you.

• Scoreboard. We judge the work by client outcomes, not volume.

Why join now

You’ll be one of our key foundational hires. Our first client starts this month, with more coming soon. That means more say in what gets built and how we deliver, and a direct line to the two people who make the decisions.

Concretely: working sessions with Adam on growth strategy and a seat in the room when we pitch new business. You’ll also help decide who joins the SEO & GEO team next, because you’ll sit on the interviews.

What you’ll own

You’ll be the person clients trust with their organic growth, and the person who turns what works into tools the rest of the team uses.

• The clients. You run the day-to-day relationship for your accounts, from the first audit to the QBR. You bring the pipeline numbers, the story and the next two bets.

• The work. You do strategic SEO, content, technical and GEO work yourself. You’re hands-on every day.

• The machine. You build the skills and agents that let a small team deliver like a big one, and you help shape the roadmap for the ones we build next.

• The method. You pressure-test and sharpen Recommendation Rate, our measure of how often AI answers recommend a brand, with real client data.

• The team. You help us hire. You’ll interview candidates, review work samples and tell us who you’d want to sit next to.

What you bring

• 5+ years in SEO, with hands-on depth in technical SEO, content strategy and organic search performance

• 2+ years leading SEO or GEO client relationships at an agency

• Real GEO experience: you’ve deployed strategies that earned recommendations in AI answers and grew Recommendation Rate

• A point of view on GEO measurement, prioritization and tooling, and the willingness to defend it

• A track record of using AI to build workflow automation, agents or skills that improve how SEO/GEO work gets delivered

• Comfort presenting to marketing leaders, up to the VP and CMO level

• Fluency with the major tools (Screaming Frog, Google Search Console, GA4, Ahrefs and the like) and CMS platforms (WordPress, Drupal), plus a working knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript

A week in the life

Three months in.

Monday

• Morning: Weekly SEO and GEO performance check. One client is losing ground in AI answers on comparison prompts.

• Afternoon: Run our internal citation-gap agent on those prompts, then cut its 40 offsite targets to the six worth the hours.

Tuesday

• Morning: Pipeline huddle with Adam and Ken. You hear where the next clients are coming from, and you tell them what you’d need to deliver well. Then prep next week’s client onboarding: audit kickoff and a first-draft prompt set.

• Afternoon: Interview a GEO strategist candidate. They walk you through their work sample, prompts and all, and you give the founders your read.

Wednesday

• Morning: QBR with a client’s VP of Marketing: pipeline first, then what moved in search and AI answers, and next quarter’s two bets.

• Afternoon: Sync with the digital media lead. The prompts where we’re winning recommendations become the next ChatGPT Ads tests.

Thursday

• Morning: Dig into the Recommendation Rate data. Do gains lead pipeline growth, and by how many weeks? You write up what you find for the founders.

• Afternoon: Build time on a skill that drafts each client’s weekly performance readout, so Mondays go to analysis instead of copy-and-paste.

Friday

• Morning: Turn Thursday’s findings into a short internal note on what it means for how we run GEO work.

• Afternoon: Ship v1 of your skill and demo it at the team show-and-tell.

Location and travel

Remote, US. We have hubs in San Francisco and San Diego. If you’re near one, great. If not, this role stays remote. Expect to get together in person about once a quarter, plus client and pitch travel as needed.

Compensation

$90,000 – $135,000 base salary, plus a performance-based bonus.

Benefits

• Health and dental

• Vision and a 401(k)

• Flexible PTO

• On the roadmap: 401(k) matching, a wellness stipend and more as we grow