Location: Bristol, UK (Hybrid)
Contract Type: Fixed-Term (12 months)
Start Date: August 2025
Salary: £42,000 – £50,000, dependent on experience
We’re looking for our next team member to come and join our growing and ambitious business.
About Noble Performance
Noble Performance is a purpose-driven digital marketing agency that believes in doing great work for good people. With roots in the US and a growing team in Bristol, we specialise in performance-led digital strategies that drive meaningful results. We pride ourselves on transparency, partnership, and impact — both for our clients and our community.
The Role
We’re looking for a confident, strategic Senior SEO Manager to join us on a 12-month maternity cover contract. This is a senior, hands-on role shaping our search strategy, evolving our services, and helping future-proof the agency in an AI-driven search environment.
This is not a line-management role, but you’ll work closely with cross-functional delivery teams, guiding strategic direction, ensuring strong operational alignment, and leading capability development across SEO and paid search.
Key Responsibilities
- Search Strategy Leadership
- Lead the agency’s SEO strategy across clients, ensuring best-in-class delivery that drives measurable results.
- Act as a strategic partner to client leads and the delivery team, aligning search strategies with wider performance objectives.
- Lead the agency’s SEO strategy across clients, ensuring best-in-class delivery that drives measurable results.
- Product and Service Development
- Actively deliver solutions, audits and monthly retained work across a number of our Tier 1 clients.
- Define and evolve our search service offering, ensuring it’s competitive, efficient, and forward-thinking.
- Identify process improvements, tools, and frameworks that drive quality and scalability across search delivery.
- AI and Search Transformation
- Guide Noble Performance through the changing landscape of search, particularly how generative AI and platforms like Google SGE are reshaping user behavior and client expectations.
- Research, test, and help embed new approaches to content, data, and technical SEO to keep the agency at the bleeding edge. .
- Guide Noble Performance through the changing landscape of search, particularly how generative AI and platforms like Google SGE are reshaping user behavior and client expectations.
- Capacity and Resource Planning
- Work with project and client services teams to plan team capacity and ensure resources are effectively aligned to demand.
- Proactively identify bottlenecks or opportunities to streamline workflows.
- Work with project and client services teams to plan team capacity and ensure resources are effectively aligned to demand.
- Performance Monitoring & Insight
- Lead campaign analysis and insight reporting, helping improve how we communicate success internally and externally.
- Champion a data-first mindset across the team, ensuring all strategic decisions are grounded in performance outcomes.
- Lead campaign analysis and insight reporting, helping improve how we communicate success internally and externally.
About You
- 5+ years in SEO with a strong grasp of strategic search leadership in an agency or high-growth environment.
- Confident in managing multiple stakeholders and cross-functional collaboration.
- Excellent analytical skills; able to translate data into strategic insight.
- Comfortable navigating emerging search trends and experimenting with new tools, especially related to AI and automation.
- Highly organised and commercially aware, with a proactive, problem-solving mindset.
What We Offer
- A values-led, collaborative culture
- Hybrid working from our Bristol office
- Opportunities for learning and development
- A chance to influence how a growing agency shapes its future services
Salary Range
£42,000 – £50,000 (pro rata) dependent on experience.
Bonuses and benefits may be discussed depending on the candidate’s experience.
Interested? Send a cover letter, your CV to
[email protected]