HEAD OF SEO FOR US-BASED COMPANIES AND AGENCIES
Hire A Head of SEO
I’m Soumodip Mukherjee, a Head of SEO with more than 8 years of experience leading enterprise SEO strategy, managing teams, and driving sustainable organic growth.
A Head of SEO who owns the whole search programme
A Head of SEO is not just the person who audits a website or sends a keyword list. The role connects business goals, search demand, technical priorities, content, authority, reporting, and team delivery. I take responsibility for deciding what matters, assigning clear owners, and checking that the work produces a measurable result.
- Set the SEO strategy and quarterly roadmap around commercial priorities.
- Lead technical SEO, content, on-page work, digital PR and authority building.
- Turn audits and research into developer tickets, briefs and owned actions.
- Manage specialists, writers, developers, agencies and freelancers.
- Define KPIs for qualified visibility, non-brand growth, leads and revenue contribution.
- Report to founders, marketing leaders and clients in clear business terms.
- Build SEO into AI search, answer engines and wider discoverability work.
- Review implementation quality before work is marked complete.
Why choose to hire a head of SEO
The strongest reason to hire a Head of SEO is not a traffic target. It is an ownership gap. SEO matters to the business, but nobody has the authority and experience to connect decisions across marketing, content, product, and development.
- Organic traffic or non-brand visibility has stalled, and the cause is disputed.
- Several teams contribute to SEO, but no senior person owns the final decision.
- Your agency produces activity, while priorities and business impact remain unclear.
- Technical recommendations stay in a backlog without implementation or QA.
- Content teams publish frequently but compete with their own pages or miss buying intent.
- A migration, redesign, international expansion, or AI-search programme needs senior oversight.
- You are building an SEO team and need hiring, mentoring, SOPs and quality standards.
- Leadership needs forecasting and reporting that connects search work with qualified demand.
SEO leadership backed by hands-on delivery
I have worked across freelance, agency-style, and senior SEO responsibilities since 2018. I can lead the programme while staying close enough to the work to challenge an audit, improve a brief, test a recommendation, and help a developer understand the required fix.
- More than 8 years of SEO experience across technical, content, and authority work.
- Experience leading and mentoring a six-person SEO team.
- 30+ websites supported across SaaS, ecommerce, services, and agency portfolios.
- 100+ landing pages optimized around query intent and conversion paths.
- Hands-on use of GA4, Google Search Console, Semrush, Ahrefs and Screaming Frog.
- Remote delivery experience across the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and France.
What I can lead for your business
Technical SEO and implementation
Crawling, indexation, rendering, architecture, canonicals, Core Web Vitals, structured data, migrations and developer-ready requirements.
SEO strategy and content systems
Search-intent mapping, topic and landing-page architecture, briefs, editorial QA, internal links and a roadmap ranked by impact and effort.
Agency SEO leadership
Portfolio strategy,
Client communication,
white-label delivery,
specialist mentoring,
SOPs and
quality control across technical, content and reporting work.
International and AI search
Regional architecture, hreflang, localization, entity consistency, AEO and GEO integrated with the wider organic search programme.
The first 90 days in the role
Days 1–30: establish the truth
I learn the business model, customers, website, data, team, and delivery constraints. I audit the search programme, identify the ownership gaps, and separate urgent problems from distracting work.
Days 31–60: set priorities and owners
I turn the findings into a working roadmap with business reasons, owners, requirements, and success measures. Critical technical and content work begins, with QA built into the process.
Days 61–90: build the operating rhythm
I verify shipped work, review early movement, remove process blockers, and establish the meeting, reporting,g and decision rhythm the team will use after the first quarter.
Why hire an SEO Head directly?
A marketplace or recruiter can help you find candidates. An agency can supply a team. Hiring me directly gives you one senior owner who stays close to the strategy, the implementation, and the people doing the work.
- Direct access to the person accountable for SEO decisions.
- No handoff from a senior salesperson to a junior delivery team.
- One roadmap across internal staff, external agencies and freelancers.
- Hands-on review when technical or content work needs specialist judgement.
- A working model that can be full-time, interim, or contract-based on the actual need.
- Transparent remote collaboration from India with agreed overlap for US teams.
Experience across different business models
SEO leadership for SaaS
Non-brand demand, use cases, features, integrations, comparisons and product-led acquisition tied to qualified pipeline.
SEO leadership for ecommerce
Category architecture, faceted navigation, product discovery, commercial content and organic revenue measurement.
SEO leadership for agencies
Client strategy, portfolio QA, specialist mentoring, white-label leadership and support for pitches or difficult performance conversations.
Questions before hiring me
Are you available for a full-time Head of SEO role?
Yes. I am open to the right remote full-time Head of SEO or SEO Lead opportunity with a US company or agency. I also consider interim, contract and fractional leadership when that model fits the business better.
What is the difference between a Head of SEO and a fractional Head of SEO?
A full-time Head of SEO is a permanent owner of the channel. An interim Head of SEO fills a temporary leadership gap. A fractional Head of SEO provides senior ownership for an agreed part of the week or month.
Are you based in the United States?
No. I am based in India and work remotely. For US roles, we agree on the practical meeting and working-hour overlap before the engagement starts.
Can you manage an existing SEO team or agency?
Yes. I have led and mentored a six-person SEO team and can coordinate internal specialists, content teams, developers, outreach partners, freelancers and external agencies.
Do you lead strategy or complete hands-on work?
Both. I can own the roadmap and senior communication while remaining involved in audits, research, briefs, optimization, implementation QA and reporting.
Do you guarantee a top ranking or traffic result?
No. Search performance depends on competition, authority, implementation, product-market fit and factors outside one person’s control. I commit to clear ownership, evidence-based decisions and transparent reporting.
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