This role leads the agency. It is senior and hands-on: one day you're building an organic growth strategy or deep in the data on a difficult SEO problem, the next you're leading a client meeting or managing the team. You'll start close to the founders and take increasing ownership of the agency itself, with a clear route to Head of Agency or Managing Director.
DoubleO Lab is an organic growth company with three parts: an agency running SEO and organic growth programmes for clients, software we build ourselves, and original research into how Google and AI search work. Each part feeds the others. You'll lead the agency part.
You'll be one of the most senior organic specialists in the business, capable of solving complex client problems on your own.
You won't personally execute every task on an account. But you should be able to do the work yourself, and step into any account without a founder telling you what needs to happen.
You'll become the senior point of contact across a portfolio of clients.
Clients should see you as the person they trust with their organic growth, not someone managing the delivery of an SEO retainer.
You'll take increasing responsibility for the people delivering our work.
We care about a supportive working environment, and we're equally serious about maintaining high standards.
Great agency work has to work for the client and for the agency. Over time you'll get increasingly involved in:
You don't need to arrive with all of this. You do need to be commercially curious and want to learn how the business works.
This is where we expect the role to evolve. As you get to know our clients, team and way of working, we'll progressively hand you more of the agency. That could include ownership of:
The intention is clear: the right person progresses to Head of Agency / Managing Director, and the founders step back from day-to-day agency management and delivery.
Probably 7–12+ years in SEO / organic search, most of it agency-side. The exact number matters less than the level you operate at.
Digital PR, GEO / AI search, ecommerce or regulated-sector experience is useful, not essential.
We're not looking for someone who has moved so far into management that they no longer want to get into the work. We're not looking for an exceptional specialist with no interest in clients, people or the commercial side either. We're looking for the person in the middle.
You might currently be an SEO Director, Head of SEO, Organic Growth Director or senior agency lead. You're technically strong and still enjoy hard problems, but the bigger picture keeps pulling at you. You want to understand why clients stay. Why they leave. Why one account is profitable and another isn't. How to build a great team. How to make delivery better. How to grow accounts without overselling. And ultimately, how to run an agency.
From there, a clear route to responsibility for the agency as a whole.
£65,000–£75,000 depending on experience, plus performance-related bonus. We'll pay towards the top of the range for someone who can show they're already capable of substantial client, team and commercial responsibility. As the role progresses towards Head of Agency / Managing Director, compensation and incentives progress with it.
Send a CV to admin@doubleolab.com, or just tell us about the best organic growth you've driven and how you did it.