SEO Manager

Job Brief

You will be responsible for planning, implementing, and monitoring our digital marketing campaigns across all digital networks. Our ideal candidate is someone with experience in marketing, art direction, and social media management. In addition to being an outstanding communicator, you will also demonstrate excellent interpersonal and analytical skills.

Responsibilities:

1. Designing and overseeing all aspects of our digital marketing department including our marketing database, email, and display advertising campaigns.
2. Developing and monitoring campaign budgets - Google AdWords. Preparing accurate reports on our marketing campaign’s overall performance.
3. In-depth understanding on SEO - Onpage, Offpage, Technical & Advanced SEO
4. Planning and managing our social media platforms.
5. Identifying the latest trends and technologies affecting our industry.
6. Evaluating important metrics that affect our website traffic, service quotas, and target audience.
7. Working with the team to brainstorm new and innovative growth strategies.

Requirements:

1. Bachelor’s degree in marketing or relevant field.
2. A minimum of 3-4 years of experience in a digital marketing or advertising position.
3. In-depth knowledge of various social media platforms, best practices, and website analytics.
4. A solid understanding of HTML and CSS is required.
5. Highly creative with excellent analytical abilities.
6. Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills.
7. Up-to-date on the latest trends and technologies in digital marketing.

Kwalee is one of the world’s leading multiplatform game publishers and developers, with well over 750 million downloads worldwide for mobile hits such as Draw It, Teacher Simulator, Let’s Be Cops 3D, Traffic Cop 3D and Makeover Studio 3D. Alongside this, we also have a growing PC and Console team of incredible pedigree that is on the hunt for great new titles to join TENS!, Eternal Hope and Die by the Blade. 

With a team of talented people collaborating daily between our studios in Leamington Spa, Bangalore and Beijing, or on a remote basis from Turkey, Brazil, the Philippines and many more places, we have a truly global team making games for a global audience. And it’s paying off: Kwalee games have been downloaded in every country on earth! If you think you’re a good fit for one of our remote vacancies, we want to hear from you wherever you are based.

Founded in 2011 by David Darling CBE, a key architect of the UK games industry who previously co-founded and led Codemasters for many years, our team also includes legends such as Andrew Graham (creator of Micro Machines series) and Jason Falcus (programmer of classics including NBA Jam) alongside a growing and diverse team of global gaming experts. Everyone contributes creatively to Kwalee’s success, with all employees eligible to pitch their own game ideas on Creative Wednesdays, and we’re proud to have built our success on this inclusive principle. Could your idea be the next global hit?

What’s the job?

As a Digital Marketing Executive you love mobile games and thrive on the excitement of taking a game from small early prototype to global mega-hit. 

Note: This role is working UK hours (roughly IST 1pm - 9.30pm).

What you tell your friends you do 

“I am the bridge between marketing and every other team within Kwalee - setting up store pages, organising game testing and ensuring all our marketing activities run smoothly”

What you will really be doing 

• Communicating with in-house development team to organise and run Facebook, Snapchat and TikTok  marketing campaigns

• Working with the Internal and Publishing Departments to help promote and prepare our games in all their stages

• Following and adapting processes to ensure games are fully prepared for release

• Writing copy for store pages, push notifications and many other elements of our games

• Help to run and adapt our App Store Optimisation

• Implementing and improving our in-game cross promotion and special offers

How you will be doing this

• You’ll be part of an agile, multidisciplinary and creative team and work closely with them to ensure the best results.

• You'll think creatively and be motivated by challenges and constantly striving for the best.

• You’ll work with cutting edge technology, if you need software or hardware to get the job done efficiently, you will get it. We even have a robot!

Team

Skills and Requirements

• Excellent organisation and time management skills

• Excellent creative writing skills

• Business mindset and understanding of commercial thinking

• High-level communication and presentation skills

• Passion for mobile games

• Prior experience with Project Management tasks

We offer

• We want everyone involved in our games to share our success, that’s why we have a generous team profit sharing scheme from day 1 of employment

• In addition to a competitive salary we also offer private medical cover and life assurance

• Creative Wednesdays!  (Design and make your own games every Wednesday)

• 20 days of paid holidays plus bank holidays 

• Hybrid model available depending on the department and the role

• Relocation support available 

• Great work-life balance with flexible working hours

• Quarterly team building days - work hard, play hard!

• Monthly employee awards

• Free snacks, fruit and drinks

Our philosophy

We firmly believe in creativity and innovation and that a fundamental requirement for a successful and happy company is having the right mix of individuals. With the right people in the right environment anything and everything is possible.

Kwalee makes games to bring people, their stories, and their interests together. As an employer, we’re dedicated to making sure that everyone can thrive within our team by welcoming and supporting people of all ages, races, colours, beliefs, sexual orientations, genders and circumstances. With the inclusion of diverse voices in our teams, we bring plenty to the table that’s fresh, fun and exciting; it makes for a better environment and helps us to create better games for everyone! This is how we move forward as a company – because these voices are the difference that make all the difference.

Our client is a leading provider of specialised marketing services that enables businesses across different sectors to grow effectively. This decade old venture founded by a woman entrepreneur offers innovative solutions by leveraging cutting edge technology based on the individual needs of the client. Their services include market research, in- store promotions, store launches, road shows, retail merchandising, events and exhibitions, among others.

Headquartered in Mumbai, the company has presence in Delhi, Bangalore and Chennai as well as dedicated local teams across other metros and small towns in India. This agency has worked with more than 100 companies and 800 brands and delivered top notch marketing strategies through integrated BTL and digital channels. Some of its clients include ITC, Zydus Wellness, PnG, Crompton, HUL, Tata and Nestle.

• Executing tests, collecting and analyzing data and results, identifying trends and insights in order to achieve maximum ROI in paid search campaigns
• Tracking, reporting and analyzing website analytics and PPC initiatives and campaigns
• Managing campaign expenses, staying on budget, estimating monthly costs and reconciling discrepancies
• Optimizing copy and landing pages for search engine marketing
• Performing ongoing keyword discovery, expansion and optimization
• Researching and implementing search engine optimization recommendations
• Researching and analyzing competitor advertising links
• Developing and implementing link building strategy
• Working with the development team to ensure SEO best practices are properly implemented on newly developed code
• Working with editorial and marketing teams to drive SEO in content creation and content programming
• Recommending changes to website architecture, content, linking and other factors to improve SEO positions for target keywords

Desired Candidate Profile

• Proven SEO experience
• On Page SEO- Keywords auditing and developing required tags and optimizations
• Off Page SEO- Thorough knowledge of backlinking techniques
• Proven SEM experience managing PPC campaigns across Google and Facebook business
• Solid understanding of performance marketing, conversion and online customer acquisition
• In-depth experience with website analytics tools (e.g, Google Analytics, NetInsight, Omniture, WebTrends)
• Experience with bid management tools (e.g., Click Equations, Marin, Kenshoo, Search Ignite)
• Experience with A/B and multivariate experiments
• Working knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript development and constraints
• Knowledge of ranking factors and search engine algorithms
• Up-to-date with the latest trends and best practices in SEO and SEM
• Proven backlink experience- sites built backlinks for and raised traffic (will check url)
• Website links to previously conducted on-page optimizations
• Previously conducted keyword embedding for #1 rank Google    

• Plan and execute all digital marketing, including SEO/SEM, marketing database, email, social media and display advertising campaigns
• Design, build and maintain our social media presence
• Measure and report performance of all digital marketing campaigns, and assess against goals (ROI and KPIs)
• Identify trends and insights, and optimize spend and performance based on the insights
• Brainstorm new and creative growth strategies
• Plan, execute, and measure experiments and conversion tests
• Collaborate with internal teams to create landing pages and optimize user experience
• Utilize strong analytical ability to evaluate end-to-end customer experience across multiple channels and customer touch points
• Instrument conversion points and optimize user funnels
• Collaborate with agencies and other vendor partners
• Evaluate emerging technologies. Provide thought leadership and perspective for adoption where appropriate

• Manage, review, and perform daily account responsibilities associated with Google AdWords, Yahoo, Bing and other search platforms for a variety of clients.
• Maintain and monitor keyword bids, account daily and monthly budget caps, impression share, quality score and other important account metrics.
• Manage the creation of large keyword lists.
• Provide creative copy suggestions and graphical ad templates.
• Manage Display network placement lists on AdWords and through other contextual advertising platforms.
• Provide recommendations and execute strategies for keyword opportunities, campaign structuring, targeting, display network, and other facets of paid search in accordance with client goals.
• Provide oversight and manage new paid search campaigns, ad groups, and accounts and aid in the creation of paid search marketing initiatives.
• Provide oversight, manage, and be able to generate weekly and monthly client reporting for all major metrics, goals tracking, revenue tracking, and other paid search initiatives.
• Keep pace with search engine and PPC industry trends and developments.
• Monitor and administer web analytics dashboards, reports and key reporting tools, and point out key areas of importance in accordance client goals.
• Monitor and evaluate search results and search performance across the major search channels.
• Communication to team and management on project development, timelines, and results.
• Provide oversight and work closely with the other team members to meet client goals.

We are looking for an SEO Specialist to coordinate SEO efforts, including onsite and offsite optimization and keyword expansion research. 

We are looking for an analytical and perceptive professional who is a skilled communicator and able to collaborate with various teams. Current knowledge of SEO practices and techniques is essential to this role.

Your goal will be to ensure that content is search-engine friendly and optimized to increase our company’s profitability.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute successful SEO strategies
• Manage a team of SEO Specialists
• Conduct keyword research to guide content teams
• Review technical SEO issues and recommend fixes
• Optimize website content, landing pages and paid search copy
• Direct off-page optimization projects (e.g. link-building)
• Collect data and report on traffic, rankings and other SEO aspects
• Work with social media and PPC teams to optimize campaigns
• Keep abreast of SEO and integrated marketing trends

Requirements

• Proven experience as SEO Manager, SEM Manager or similar role
• Knowledge of standard and current SEO practices
• Knowledge of HTML/CSS
• Experience with SEO reporting
• Familiarity with relevant tools (e.g. Conductor, Screaming Frog, MOZ) and web analytics tools (e.g. Google Analytics, WebTrends)
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong organizational and leadership skills
• Analytical mindset with numerical aptitude

Role Description - 

- Workindia is a 100% Product Company [Not Product-Enabled]. With PMF Stage completed 2 years ago, Company has seen rapid scale to become the largest Blue Gray Collar Recruitment Company in India today.

- With scale, Company focuses on one, expansion of existing business initiatives and two, addition of new business initiatives on an ongoing basis. 

- Role of the candidate is to head the digital marketing Team

Eligibility - 

1. Academic background: Engineering Only. Non-Engineers are not eligible to apply for this role. 

2. Work Experience: Minimum 4 years of experience required. 

3. Candidate should have good analytical skills, effective leadership and communication skills. 

4. Candidate should have experience in using marketing data tools and marketing analytics. 

5. Candidate Should have been involved in deciding team size, team structure, have experience of budget allocation to the various marketing channels, independent thinking on strategy vs. only execution.

Just to inform you; the company has excellent work environment and work culture.

Qualifications - 

BE / B tech/ MBA only requested to apply. Good institutes will be given preference.

If interested, kindly share your updated CV along with the following details:

1. Total experience:

2. Current CTC

3. Expected CTC 

4. Notice Period

5. Contact Number:

6. Email ID

7. Qualification:

Contact Person:

Shubha Gupta
HR Manager