Technical SEO Lead | Remote for U.S.-Based Higher Education Marketing Agency 🌎

Company Overview Our client is a performance marketing agency specializing in mission-driven organizations across higher education and nonprofit sectors. They combine strategy, creative, and data-driven execution to help universities and organizations achieve measurable growth in enrollments, applications, inquiries, and awareness. Your Role As Technical SEO Lead, you'll be the technical SEO expert across a portfolio of higher education partner accounts. Your work improves their visibility in traditional search, answer engines, and generative AI search. The role has two sides. The first is technical SEO: you find the issues that affect rankings and traffic, write specs developers can act on, and follow through until fixes are live. The second is building Claude-based tools and workflows that reduce manual work in audits, reporting, QA, and content production. That way the team spends its time editing and reviewing rather than starting from scratch. You'll work alongside the SEO Lead and support the Executive Director of SEO. You'll Lead technical SEO across client accounts Run technical audits covering crawlability, indexation, site architecture, internal linking, Core Web Vitals, structured data, redirects, and broken links Prioritize issues by impact and effort, and defend those calls Write dev-ready specs for web developers and client teams, then follow through until fixes are released and verified Handle light WordPress implementation yourself: titles, meta descriptions,