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VirtuHire

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2019

🎯 Recruiter

👥 HR Tech

☁️ SaaS

Recruitment • HR Tech • SaaS

VirtuHire is a remote recruiting and employer-of-record service focused on connecting businesses with vetted South African talent. The company rigorously vets candidates and provides a curated shortlist, interview scheduling, onboarding, payroll, compliance, and full employee management. It offers a no-fee recruitment process, advertises cost savings versus local hires, and emphasizes English proficiency, university-educated candidates, and industry experience. Metrics provided include clients served, hires made, and a high retention rate. VirtuHire positions itself as a partner handling hiring, EOR services, and HR administration to let clients focus on growth.

📋 Description

• Managing day-to-day SEO campaigns for multiple clients, including local, on-site, off-site, and technical SEO. • Establishing KPIs and performance benchmarks, measuring success and providing strategic recommendations for ongoing growth. • Developing and implementing SEO strategies to improve organic rankings and traffic. • Conducting keyword research and optimising website content, including blogs, landing pages, meta tags, URLs, and internal linking. • Performing technical SEO audits and implementing improvements (site speed, crawl errors, schema, mobile optimisation). • Optimising and managing local SEO for clients, including Google Business Profiles, citations, and local keyword targeting. • Providing regular reporting and insights to clients and internal teams. • Creating and optimising content for multiple clients’ websites, including blog posts, landing pages, and meta descriptions, ensuring alignment with the wider SEO strategy and target audience. • Identifying, troubleshooting, and resolving SEO performance issues through data-driven analysis and creative problem-solving. • Leading and mentoring junior SEO team members, providing training, guidance, and feedback to support their growth and development. • Identifying new growth opportunities, such as emerging search platforms, voice search, or AI-driven SEO tools. • Collaborating with cross-functional teams (e.g. developers, designers, PPC, social media, and content teams) to ensure SEO best practices are integrated across all digital marketing activities.

🎯 Requirements

• 2 years+ of experience in on-site, off-site, technical and content SEO, ideally working with multiple clients. • Planned and executed strategic link-building initiatives, including outreach to relevant websites and influencers, to improve search engine rankings and increase site authority. • Implemented and managed tracking tags, triggers, and variables in Google Tag Manager to optimise data collection, improve analytics accuracy, and support digital marketing campaigns. • Problem-solving and critical thinking skills, with the ability to diagnose issues, develop solutions, and adapt strategies in a fast-changing SEO landscape. • Experience with Google Analytics and Google Search Console. • Knowledge of SEO tools such as Ahrefs, Moz, Screaming Frog, etc. • Strong analytical skills to analyse websites against key competitors to identify opportunities for performance improvements. • Understanding of how to develop technical improvements to websites and their servers. • Experience in generating content for SEO and an understanding of how to optimise the content, including URLs, keywords, meta tags, internal link structure and external links. • An ability to advise on what content should be created to improve organic performance and reach. • Thorough knowledge of white-hat SEO techniques. • Positive, energetic and a great communicator within a team. • Excellent presentation skills. • Proactive and passionate, with an ability to actively learn and take on new skills.