New Job Opening: SEO Manager in Manila, Philippines

Be part of a fast-moving independent media agency where analytics, creativity, and innovationfuel real client growth — and where your performance marketing expertise can make an immediate impact.

The Opportunity

Drive a new category of performance — blending deep technical SEO expertise with AI Engine Optimisation (AEO / GEO) to maximise visibility, citation share, and commercial impact across both traditional SERPs and AI-generated answers.

Why join us?

• Proudly Great Place to Work® certified


• Celebrate globally: Company trips (2025: Hong Kong, 2024: Thailand), Culture Champs, Year-end parties, leadership awards & more


• Grow with stability: 100+ in our 10-Year Club by 2025


• Dynamic talent network: 2,000+ across APAC and beyond


• Competitive compensation with annual reviews


• Comprehensive medical care for you and your family


• Generous paid leave because work-life balance matters


• Level up with LinkedIn Learning and tailored training


• Flexible work setup

Staff Testimonial

“It’s been a wonderful career opportunity and growth being as an employee. We are always encouraged to further enhance our leadership, technical and soft-skills capabilities. It is great to embrace instil principles in demonstrating these qualities wherein everyone takes personal accountability and be respectful to others every day. I am truly proud to be part of this wonderful organisation.” – Delivery Lead, ASW Philippines.

What You’ll Do

• Own and lead organic growth strategy across traditional search engines and AI answer engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude).


• Develop and execute 90-day and 12-month SEO/AEO roadmaps aligned to client commercial goals (revenue, leads, margin).


• Build and evolve AEO/GEO frameworks, including audits, citation tracking, entity presence, and AI answer accuracy.


• Optimise content for both search and AI retrieval (structured Q&A, entity clarity, authoritative and extractable content).


• Manage technical SEO and AI crawler signals (site architecture, indexing, Core Web Vitals, schema, llms.txt, robots rules).


• Lead senior client relationships, translating technical insights into clear commercial narratives and growth opportunities.


• Own analytics, forecasting, and reporting using GA4, Search Console, BigQuery, and dashboarding tools.


• Drive authority-building strategies including digital PR, backlinks, and entity/knowledge graph optimization.


• Partner cross-functionally and monitor industry shifts in AI search to continuously identify growth opportunities.

Key Criteria

• 5+ years of SEO experience, preferably in an agency or multi-client environment exposure.


• Proven track record of delivering measurable commercial outcomes (revenue growth, leads, market share).


• Hands-on experience with AEO/GEO/LLMO, including prompt strategy, citation tracking, and entity optimization is a nice-to-have.


• Strong technical SEO expertise (crawl, indexation, schema, Core Web Vitals, log-file analysis).


• Advanced analytics capability (GA4, Search Console, BigQuery/SQL, Looker Studio or equivalent).


• Experience with SEO and AI visibility tools (Ahrefs, Semrush, Screaming Frog, etc.).


• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, including executive-level engagement.

Work setup:

• Manila (BGC, Taguig): Australian hours (6:00am–3:00pm PHT) with a fully remote setup

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