Hello, we’re Starling. We built a new kind of bank because we knew technology had the power to help people save, spend and manage their money in a new and transformative way. We’re a fully licensed UK bank with the culture and spirit of a fast-moving, disruptive tech company. We’re a bank, but better: fairer, easier to use and designed to demystify money for everyone. We employ more than 3,000 people across our London, Southampton, Cardiff and Manchester offices.
We are looking for an interim SEO Manager to join our team for 6 months. We’re looking for someone with a mix of SEO content strategy, technical skills, and data-driven decision-making. You’ll also need soft skills such as curiosity, critical thinking, organisation, and be an effective communicator.
Working as part of the Web & SEO team in Marketing, you’ll collaborate with content writers, web managers and developers to ensure that the Starling website is optimised for search engines for both on-page and technical SEO. Your insights will help our growth ambitions, but also support the customer experience/service teams to anticipate and address customer needs.
You will:
- Prepare and conduct keyword research and content analysis for web optimisation
- Identify gaps and execute SEO growth through competitor analysis and keyword opportunities
- Partner with the editorial and web teams providing recommendations for organic success
- Plan, develop and implement SEO strategies to achieve organic goals
- Work with the development team to ensure website content is optimised for search engines and user experience
- Monitor and report on search engine rankings, organic traffic, and insights on trends
- Provide regular reporting and updates on performance to stakeholders, creating dashboards
- Develop automations to improve performance and drive efficiencies
- Manage internal tools and develop processes used for optimisation
- Collaboration with internal teams to develop high-performing marketing campaigns
- Take the initiative and spot opportunities for improvements and insights.
- Strong verbal and written communication at all levels
- Analytical skills and the ability to work with large data sets
- Great organisational and time management and the ability to prioritise tasks
- Research skills and attention to detail when pulling data from multiple platforms
- Interpersonal skills to manage relationships with stakeholders
- An inquisitive nature, ability to think creatively and be adaptable
- Problem solving and decision making
- Fluency in search engines.
Demonstrated experience in:
- SEO tools such as SEMrush and Screaming Frog
- Analytics and monitoring including Google Search Console and GA4
- CMS platforms
- Technical SEO
- Google Tag Manager
- Core Web Vitals
- Business intelligence tools such as Looker
- Google Business.
It’s not a requirement, but it would be beneficial if you’ve worked in a regulated environment previously.
This is a unique opportunity for an immediately available SEO Manager to make a significant impact.
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What We Do
Hello, we’re Starling.
Banking was broken – so we decided to fix it. The vision? Fast technology, fair service and honest values. All at the tap of a phone, all the time.
We built Britain’s first digital bank.
One hard-won banking licence later, we set about giving people a new way to spend, save and manage their money (and take better care of the planet, too).
We’re changing banking for good.
Back then, we were obsessed with unravelling the knotty world of finance and solving people’s problems rather than selling them stuff. We still are.
Since then, we’ve grown. A lot.
Over three million accounts (and four account types!). A team of thousands. Headquartered in London with offices in Cardiff, Dublin, Manchester and Southampton. Five years voted Which? Recommended Provider and Britain's Best Banking Brand. Still zero branches.
Our culture is open, inclusive and focused on solving real customer problems, with an emphasis on doing the right thing, even when it’s not always the easy thing. From our approach to working together and sustainability to how we build our products, our decisions need to make the world – and Starling – a better place to be.
Everyone at Starling is essential to our mission, which is really quite simple: to solve our customer’s problems – and build the best bank in the world!
And now we're providing Starling to other banks, via a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) proposition through our subsidiary Engine, using the proprietary technology platform that it uses to power our own bank.
