Senior Local SEO Manager – Home Services

Hire Hangar Global

Senior Local SEO Manager focusing on organic growth for home-service clients. Developing SEO strategies and driving local rankings in competitive metro markets.

Posted 5/25/2026contractRemote • 🇿🇦 South AfricaSenior💰 $2,000 - $3,000 per monthWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

WordPress

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own local SEO strategy and execution for multiple home-services clients
Build and manage SEO roadmaps focused on rankings, leads, and local visibility
Drive consistent Google Business Profile performance across competitive service areas
Lead scalable SEO processes, QA checks, and reporting standards
Stay current on Google updates, local ranking factors, AI-influenced search trends, and E-E-A-T for service businesses
Optimize GBPs for service-area and hybrid businesses
Improve rankings across primary cities and surrounding service areas
Manage categories, services, attributes, citations, media, and trust signals
Build and review content strategies for service pages, city pages, and blogs
Create SEO briefs aligned with local intent and lead generation
Ensure content quality, local relevance, and conversion effectiveness
Conduct technical SEO audits (indexation, crawlability, internal linking, CWV awareness)
Work with WordPress and development teams to implement fixes
Coordinate local link building, citations, and authority-building efforts

Requirements

What you’ll need

4+ years of hands-on SEO experience with direct home-services or service-based industry exposure
Proven success improving local SEO and GBP rankings for service-area businesses
Experience in competitive metro markets and multi-location SEO environments
Strong WordPress experience (on-page and technical implementation)
Solid technical SEO fundamentals and reporting capabilities
Ability to manage multiple clients and priorities effectively
Non-negotiable: Prior professional remote work experience, fluency with remote collaboration tools (Slack, Zoom, Google Workspace, Asana or similar), and experience supporting US- or UK-based teams.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Highly competitive, transparent compensation
No hidden figures or negotiating down once in the door.
Committed to rewarding performance and results.

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Hard Skills & Tools

local SEOSEO roadmapsGoogle Business Profiletechnical SEO auditsindexationcrawlabilityinternal linkingcontent strategieslead generationconversion effectiveness

Soft Skills

ability to manage multiple clientsprioritizationremote work experiencecollaborationcommunication