Technical SEO Contractor (Maternity Cover) in London

Who are we? A world where complexity is the only constant demands a new breed of company. Brave Bison is a different beast: a media, marketing and technology company purpose built for the digital era. Our universe is made up of award-winning business arms Brave Bison, Engage, SocialChain and MTM. We’re underpinned by leading marketing training practice, MiniMBA, as well as our very own social-first media network who deliver monthly views in the billions for some of the biggest channels in sport and entertainment across YouTube, Snap, Meta and TikTok. We’re a global collective who live and breathe digital, working with some of the boldest brands in the world to capitalise on the complexity that defines the modern marketing landscape.

Our mission: New platforms, new behaviours, new audiences, new trends, new technologies, new regulations—our clients’ worlds get more complex daily. Their agency partnerships shouldn’t. It’s our job to cut through the chaos, make the complex simple and navigate a clear path to growth for them. That’s why we make it our mission to capitalise on complexity for our clients—across consultancy, capability and execution—by crafting dynamic digital solutions that outpace tomorrow’s challenges.

Our values: We’re a proudly diverse business comprised of deep specialists across media, marketing, training and technology. Although our skills, backgrounds and beliefs may differ, we are united by four core shared values:

• Bold Curiosity: We run at change and challenge convention because we love to push the boundaries of what the world thinks is possible. We champion discovery, go deep into our clients’ worlds and are always hungry to learn more about them, our specialisms and each other.
• Connected Clarity: We are focused in our collaboration — joining the right dots between our clients, our partners and our herd of experts to deliver agile solutions at speed and scale. We set a shared ambition from the outset, are transparent at every stage and always strive to make the complex simple.
• Positive Encouragement: We want to make working with us the best part of someone’s day. We lift one another up, find the fun in the day to day and are committed to ensuring everyone belongs.
• Constant Impact: We believe in outcomes over outputs. We’re goal orientated, results driven and data-led. We show up with passion every day. And we’re always honing our craft.

About Brave Bison Performance: With over 20 years experience growing our clients’ businesses through digital media, we help brands leverage the right data, right partners and right tech to capitalise on complexity and supercharge their online growth. By going deep into our clients’ world, investing their budget where it will work the hardest and ensuring that we only win when they win, we stand for braver digital in a world of opportunity.

Your role: Reporting to Senior SEO Consultant (Level 4)

Role Overview: As a Technical SEO Consultant at Brave Bison, you will be responsible for delivering best-in-class SEO & GEO work that drives measurable impact for your clients. You will take ownership of selected SEO roadmaps, ensuring the high-quality execution of deliverables, the identification and articulation of technical issues, and the successful implementation of recommendations in partnership with your clients. Your work will directly support client KPIs, business goals and overall retention.

You will be accountable for the performance and growth of your assigned SEO accounts — bringing strong technical understanding, commerciality, and a consultant mindset that drives high implementation rates. You are driven by client performance, client satisfaction and retention, and delivering SEO work that makes a meaningful business difference. You bring curiosity, commercial thinking and problem-solving energy that helps Brave Bison stand out as a trusted advisor and partner.

Responsibilities:

• Client Performance & Delivery: Own and execute technical SEO & GEO deliverables to a high standard, driving strong performance outcomes across your accounts. Manage the execution of your clients’ SEO roadmaps, ensuring deliverables are completed on time and to a level that minimises QA intervention. Proactively identify performance risks, technical issues and growth opportunities, using data and insight to inform recommendations. Secure implementation of recommendations by articulating business cases, adapting communication to stakeholder needs, and demonstrating commercial impact. Lead marketing science elements of your accounts, ensuring reporting, insight, and measurement frameworks support client goals.
• Client Retention & Growth: Take accountability for the retention and growth of your owned accounts through high-quality delivery, proactive communication and strong relationship building. Act as the day-to-day SEO contact for your clients, managing expectations, resolving challenges, and maintaining exceptional communication standards. Support development of upsell and cross-sell opportunities by aligning SEO recommendations to wider business priorities.
• Product Excellence: Expertise, Insight, Value: Deliver SEO work that reflects Brave Bison’s product vision of Expertise, Insight, and Value — demonstrating your understanding of how technical excellence, intelligence and commerciality drive outcomes. Identify gaps in product delivery across your accounts and seek support where needed to strengthen alignment to the product vision. Contribute to the optimisation of internal frameworks, tools and delivery processes by sharing learnings and suggesting improvements.
• Training, Collaboration & Process: Support junior staff through coaching on specific deliverables, process education and technical problem-solving. Collaborate with Performance Marketing and other Brave Bison teams to ensure cohesive cross-channel delivery. Support with resource planning needs by communicating capacity, risks and delivery considerations.
• New Business & Marketing: Contribute to Brave Bison’s marketing activity through content ideas, participation in events or thought leadership contributions. Support the SEO function in new business opportunities, providing input into pitch material, forecasting and technical insight as needed.

Progression Path: To progress to Senior SEO Consultant, you will have:

• Consistently delivered strong performance, retention and growth outcomes in your accounts.
• Demonstrated flawless execution and high autonomy, requiring minimal QA.
• Actively contributed to improvements in process, innovation or marketing.
• Demonstrated leadership behaviours and readiness to coach and support others.
• Shown the ability to manage more complex or strategically important accounts.

What you’ll get: Our people make us who we are, so to make sure we attract and retain the best and brightest in the industry, we offer an attractive benefits package. We are the UK’s first carbon neutral agency (a status we have held since 2018), with a serious commitment to monitoring and reducing the impact our work has on the planet across three core sustainability pillars of Greenhouse Gases, Waste & Recycling and Sustainable Consumption.

Then there’s a whole host of benefits – from discounted gym memberships and free eye tests to an employee pension scheme and enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption package. Here’s a snapshot of just some of the benefits we think you might also like:

• Dynamic working: To keep that work-life harmony in check, we're flexible on where and when you work.
• Private medical insurance: To keep you fighting fit and give you and your family peace of mind.
• Income protection: We know it feels good to be covered, just in case.
• Calm Subscription: Now more than ever, it’s important to mind your mind!
• 25 days annual leave: This increases to 27 days after three years with us, and then increases every subsequent year up to a max. of 30 days.
• Christmas closure: No need to save holiday days for the Christmas closure period. It's on us!
• Birthdays off: One extra day to celebrate your big day.
• Summer hours: Between June and Aug we finish at 15.00 every Friday.
• Online coaching and mental health support: Unlimited via OpenUp.
• Remote Working: Work abroad for up to one month a year.
• Performance & Salary: Reviewed twice a year for everyone.

Finally, we’re proud and committed to being an equal opportunity workplace, providing equal opportunities for all and treating all existing employees and all job applicants in the same way, regardless of their age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity status and marital & civil partnership status.