Senior Digital Marketing Associate - SEO Lead in Nottingham

We are passionate about the credit card products we offer and want to reach as many new customers as possible. Working collaboratively with the wider marketing team, external agencies, and teams across the business, you will find and deliver opportunities to improve our connections with consumers on Search channels – helping our business grow.

What You’ll Do

• Take ownership of our organic Search Channels, using data, technology and insight to increase visibility and conversion.
• Design and oversee a holistic SEO roadmap with our external SEO agency that integrates on‑page, off‑page and technical initiatives.
• Collaborate with senior leadership to ensure SEO efforts directly support commercial and overall brand objectives.
• Continually explore opportunities to improve SEO – including identifying ways to improve the quality and structure of site content, create effective new site content, and build the reputation of our brand and site across the web.
• Develop our keyword strategies, using market research to assess opportunities and ensuring strategy aligns with business goals.
• Own the relationship with our external SEO agency: work collaboratively with internal design, engineering and delivery teams to deliver SEO best practices, align on strategy, prioritize initiatives and efforts align with business objectives.
• Maintain centralised oversight of the SEO agenda, and drive delivery – including managing delivery risks, resolving blockers and assessing opportunities to streamline workflows.
• Monitor metrics to analyse SEO health and proactively identify opportunities, trends and actionable insights, which you’ll report to marketing and the wider business.
• Assess and explore the journeys of customers engaging in organic Search channels, working with design and the wider marketing team to ensure we deliver great end‑to‑end customer experiences.
• Collaborate with the team’s GEO lead to optimise our site’s technical structure, increase AI search visibility and stay informed of emerging AI search trends – ensuring that SEO strategy reflects the needs of AI Search Channels.
• Collaborate with the team’s Adtech lead to strategically evolve our Search data, technology and infrastructure: identify improvements that will enable us to remain at the cutting edge of digital marketing.
• Oversee advanced technical implementations such as Core Web Vitals, schema markup, site architecture, and crawl efficiency.
• Maximise value from existing SEO tools and proactively identify, evaluate and onboard new tools to accelerate SEO growth.
• You will oversee SEO performance tracking, utilising advanced metrics to align organic growth with business revenue goals.

What We’re Looking For

• You’ll have a passion to learn, will want to make a positive difference and be excited about how we can grow.
• You’ll want to think about interesting, difficult problems, share your thoughts and make recommendations – and be able to think creatively, and explore different routes to solving problems.
• You’ll be a great communicator, able to effectively convey messages to our marketing partners and senior stakeholders within the business – and you enjoy working collaboratively with associates from across the business.
• You’ll be able to take ownership of your area, and work with a proactive mindset – taking the initiative to identify and drive opportunities, and prioritising effectively across multiple projects and deliverables.
• You’ll have good experience managing SEO activity, including managing on‑site and off‑site content, and keyword analysis.
• You’ll have experience utilising advanced metrics to monitor SEO health and commercial impacts.
• You’ll understand what makes good quality content and customer experiences, and be able to constructively assess examples of these.
• You’ll have good judgement: you’ll be able to assess risks and opportunities, and balance trade offs, to identify the smartest path to our goals.
• You’ll have strong reasoning skills, and – whether demonstrated through academic or professional experience – you’ll be at ease with numbers and data, and enjoy solving problems with these components.
• You’ll have experience in a high‑growth organization, where you were accountable for KPIs.
• You’ll be familiar with market leading and new SEO tools like SEMrush.

Where And How You’ll Work

This is a permanent position and can be based in our Nottingham or London offices. We have a hybrid working model which gives you flexibility to work from our offices and from home. You’ll be based in our Nottingham or London office three days a week on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, with flexible arrangements available to suit individual needs.

What’s In It For You

• Contribution to the roadmap of an organisation committed to transformation.
• Strong career progression opportunities and investment in your development through training programmes.
• Immediate access to core benefits including pension scheme, bonus, generous holiday entitlement and private medical insurance – plus flexible benefits such as season‑ticket loans, cycle‑to‑work scheme and enhanced parental leave.
• Open‑plan workspaces and accessible facilities designed to inspire and support you.

What You Should Know About How We Recruit

We pride ourselves on hiring the best people, practising diversity, equity and inclusion. We provide a fair and accessible recruitment process and offer benefits that attract people at all stages. We also partner with organisations including Women In Finance, Race At Work and UpReach to support diverse talent.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Capital One is committed to diversity in the workplace. If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact ukrecruitment@capitalone.com. All information will be kept confidential and will only be used to apply a reasonable adjustment.

Contact Information

For technical support or questions about Capital One’s recruiting process, please email Careers@capitalone.com.