Manager - SEO & Growth Marketing

About Emeritus

Emeritus is committed to teaching the skills of the future by making high-quality education accessible and affordable to individuals, companies, and governments around the world. It does this by collaborating with more than 80 top-tier universities across the United States, Europe, Latin America, Southeast Asia, India and China.

Emeritus’ short courses, degree programs, professional certificates, and senior executive programs help individuals learn new skills and transform their lives, companies and organizations. Its unique model of state-of-the-art technology, curriculum innovation, and hands-on instruction from senior faculty, mentors and coaches has educated more than 300,000 individuals across 80+ countries.

Founded in 2015, Emeritus, part of Eruditus Group, has more than 1,800 employees globally and offices in Mumbai, New Delhi, Shanghai, Singapore, Palo Alto, Mexico City, New York, Boston, London, and Dubai. The company is backed by prominent investors including Accel, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Leeds Illuminate, Prosus Ventures, Sequoia Capital India, and Bertelsmann.

Job Description

About the role - We are hiring a Technical SEO & Growth Marketing Specialist with 5–7 years of experience in organic SEO and growth marketing.The ideal candidate will have strong technical SEO expertise, a data-driven mindset, and hands-on experience with tools like Google Search Console, Trackpoint, SEMrush, and WordPress. Preference will be given to candidates with brand-side experience who can take ownership of organic growth strategies end-to-end.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct regular SEO audits and ensure site health: crawlability, indexation, site speed, and Core Web Vitals.
• Implement and manage structured data, sitemaps, redirects, and internal linking strategies.
• Collaborate with tech and product teams to integrate SEO best practices into site architecture.

• Develop and execute an SEO roadmap to grow traffic, leads, and conversions.
• Perform keyword research and content gap analysis to uncover growth opportunities.
• Leverage AI-powered SEO tools and workflows to scale and optimize faster.
• Awareness of AEO and how to leverage content and other strategies for more citations

• Use tools like Search Console, Trackpoint, SEMrush, and analytics dashboards to monitor and report on organic performance.
• Analyze keyword rankings, traffic sources, CTRs, and conversions to identify actionable insights.
• Translate data into clear recommendations for content, product, and leadership teams.

• Work closely with content and design teams to align SEO with content marketing.
• Partner with developers to implement technical recommendations.
• Support growth marketing initiatives with organic-first strategies.

Skills & Qualifications:

• 5–7 years of hands-on SEO experience (preferably on brand side).
• Proven ability to grow organic performance across multiple KPIs (traffic, leads, engagement).
• Expertise in WordPress, Google Search Console, Trackpoint, and SEMrush.
• Strong understanding of Google Search algorithms and ranking factors.
• Ability to read and interpret performance data and communicate insights effectively.
• Knowledge of on-page and technical SEO, schema, and structured data.
• Growth mindset with problem-solving and collaboration skills.

• Familiarity with AI-driven SEO tools (SurferSEO, Clearscope, Jasper, etc.).
• Experience with international or large-scale SEO projects.
• Basic HTML/CSS/JavaScript knowledge for technical troubleshooting.

• Ownership of organic SEO growth strategy.
• The chance to experiment with AI + SEO innovations.
• A collaborative, remote-first, impact-driven team environment.

Emeritus provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.