SEO Manager (Independent Contractor - Philippines)

We’re looking for an experienced and forward-thinking SEO Manager to join GAIN and lead organic search activity across GAIN’s own websites https://www.thisisgain.com & https://www.iq.thisisgain.com.

We are actively hiring independent contractors based in the Philippines, ready to take on meaningful, remote work with international clients. You might be a great fit for our network if you're a self-motivated professional who thrives in flexible work environments and values autonomy.

You’ll be responsible for developing and delivering SEO strategies that improve visibility, attract relevant audiences, and contribute to measurable business growth. Working across technical SEO, content, authority, and emerging AI-powered discovery, you’ll turn data and insight into clear priorities and practical programs of work.

This is a hands-on role for someone who understands how search is changing. You’ll be confident working across traditional search engines while also exploring how brands can improve their visibility within AI-generated answers, conversational search, and other emerging discovery platforms.

Success will be measured through the quality of your thinking and delivery, the commercial impact of your work, the strength of your client relationships, and your contribution to the continued development of GAIN’s SEO offering.

Responsibilities:

SEO Strategy and Delivery

• Develop and manage integrated SEO strategies aligned with GAIN’s audiences, commercial objectives, and wider marketing plans.
• Take responsibility for the quality, consistency, and timely delivery of SEO activity across the GAIN websites.
• Translate business objectives and audience behavior into clear organic search priorities, roadmaps, and measures of success.
• Work across technical SEO, on-page optimization, content strategy, internal linking, digital authority, and off-site signals.
• Conduct keyword, topic, audience, and search-intent research to identify opportunities across the customer journey.
• Turn audits and data into prioritized, practical recommendations that clients and delivery teams can implement.
• Balance short-term performance opportunities with the development of sustainable organic visibility and authority.
• Manage migrations, redesigns, platform changes, and other projects where organic performance may be affected.
• Monitor search-platform developments and adjust client strategies when changes create material risks or opportunities.

Technical SEO

• Conduct and oversee technical audits covering crawlability, indexation, site architecture, canonicalization, structured data, rendering, and page experience.
• Identify technical issues using appropriate crawling, analytics, and webmaster tools, assessing their likely commercial impact.
• Work with developers, product teams, and client stakeholders to turn technical recommendations into clear implementation requirements.
• Support quality assurance before and after releases, migrations, and significant website changes.
• Understand the SEO implications of different platforms, frameworks, content-management systems, and JavaScript-led experiences.
• Communicate complex technical findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Content, Authority, and AI Search

• Develop evidence-led content strategies based on audience needs, search demand, competitor activity, and wider market opportunities.
• Produce or review content briefs that clearly define audience intent, purpose, structure, and optimization requirements.
• Work with content, creative, digital PR, and brand specialists to improve relevance, authority, and organic reach.
• Help GAIN build clear subject-matter expertise and credible entity signals across their digital presence.
• Explore how content can be discovered and cited across AI Overviews, AI assistants, conversational search, and other generative experiences.
• Monitor emerging practices across GEO, answer-engine optimization, and large-language-model visibility, distinguishing meaningful developments from short-term industry noise.
• Use AI tools responsibly to support research, analysis, briefing, quality assurance, and workflow efficiency while maintaining appropriate human oversight.
• Consider the interaction between SEO and other forms of discovery, including marketplaces, social platforms, video, and app stores, where relevant to the client.

Performance and Insight

• Define meaningful KPIs and measurement frameworks aligned with client objectives rather than relying solely on rankings or traffic.
• Monitor organic visibility, engagement, conversion, and revenue performance, identifying trends, risks, and areas for improvement.
• Create clear reports that explain performance, the impact of completed work, and the priorities for the next period.
• Combine data from search, analytics, and third-party platforms to develop informed recommendations.
• Develop hypotheses, tests, and forecasts to strengthen decision-making and demonstrate the potential value of SEO activity.
• Communicate confidently where performance has fallen short, explaining the likely causes and proposing a practical recovery plan.