WANTED! The World's Most Strategic SEO Specialist | Jacksonville, FL

WANTED! The World's Most Strategic SEO Specialist | Jacksonville, FL

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WHO WE ARE

MindShift Studios is a digital marketing agency in Saint Johns, FL. We work primarily with longevity clinics, health practitioners, health supplements, and wellness brands, helping ambitious businesses build the future of how people live longer, healthier lives.

We're data-driven by default. Every recommendation, every strategy, every report is grounded in numbers we can defend. Gut feelings are a starting point. Data is how we win.

Most agencies sell marketing. We sell time. The kind your clients give back to their patients in healthier years, sharper minds, and longer lives. We're a small, relentless team building the marketing engine for the longevity movement, and we're not interested in average. If "billable hours" is the metric that defines your career, this isn't it. If "founders we helped change the world" is, welcome home.

Check us out: mindshiftstudios.com THE ROLE

We're hiring a full-time SEO Specialist on a hybrid basis, split between our Saint Johns, FL office and remote. You'll need to be in or willing to relocate to the Jacksonville area.

You'll manage our entire SEO division, owning technical SEO, on-page and off-page strategy, AI SEO and GEO strategy, long-tail strategy, content writing, guest posting, link building, LinkedIn outreach, reporting and measurement, and client communication.

You'll start with 3 client accounts and grow into a portfolio of 8 to 10 over your first 60 days. You'll report to our Project Manager and our COO, but the SEO practice is yours to run.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Technical SEO: Run comprehensive site audits and prioritize fixes by impact: site speed, Core Web Vitals, schema, indexation, redirects, canonicalization, mobile usability. Diagnose with Google Search Console, Screaming Frog, and PageSpeed Insights.

On-Page SEO: Architect content that ranks. Keyword research, search intent mapping, topic clusters, pillar pages, schema, internal linking, and content depth. Build topical authority across longevity and health verticals.

Off-Page SEO: Run quality backlink campaigns through outreach, digital PR, and partnerships. No PBNs. No spam. Real links from real sites with real audiences. Track DR, referring domains, and link velocity tied to ranking and traffic outcomes.

AI SEO and GEO: Lead our practice in optimizing for AI-powered search: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. Build and improve AI workflows using Claude that scale our output and quality. This is the future of SEO, and you're going to help us own it.

Long-Tail Strategy: Build content programs that capture qualified, high-intent traffic our competitors miss. The long tail is where small businesses outrank giants, and you know how to execute on it.

Content Writing: Write or oversee SEO-optimized content that ranks and converts. Blog posts, service pages, landing pages, location pages, and pillar content. You can write yourself when needed, brief writers when you can't, and edit ruthlessly either way. Every piece is tied to a keyword strategy and a measurable outcome.

Guest Posting & Backlinks: Build and execute guest posting campaigns that earn high-DR backlinks from reputable health, wellness, and longevity publications. Pitch editors, write contributor-quality drafts, and turn placements into long-term partnerships. No PBNs. No spam. Real placements on real sites with real audiences.

LinkedIn Outreach: Run campaigns for partnership building, founder positioning, digital PR, and authority building, for our agency and our clients.

Client Communication: Lead monthly strategy calls, deliver reports, and serve as the primary day-to-day contact for your portfolio. Translate technical work into language clients act on.

Reporting and Measurement: Track everything. Clients should always know exactly what's working, why, and what's next.

QUALIFICATIONS

SEO Technical Stack (Required)

Google Search Console, Ahrefs and/or Semrush, Screaming Frog, GA4: Daily fluency.

On-page SEO: Keyword research, content optimization, internal linking, topic clustering.

Off-page SEO: Proven backlink experience through outreach and digital PR.

Long-tail strategy: You understand that 1,000 long-tail rankings beat one head term.

Technical SEO: Site speed, schema, Core Web Vitals, indexation, redirects, canonicalization.

WordPress: Comfortable with HTML and CSS edits.

AI and Tools (Required)

Claude (claude.ai) proficiency: Daily use, with examples to show.

AI SEO experience: You understand how AI search engines crawl, evaluate, and surface content.

Data fluency: You live in spreadsheets and dashboards and turn numbers into stories.