SEMrush

Digital Strategy Consultant (Services Team)

SEMrush$131K — $190K *
Business Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years experience in digital strategy, SEO and GEO consulting
  • Proven ability to drive strategic roadmaps from structured discovery engagements
  • Expertise in designing scalable operating models and governance frameworks
  • Experience engaging senior stakeholders at the Director and VP levels
  • Strong analytical skills in connecting SEO initiatives to business outcomes
  • Exceptional communication and stakeholder management abilities
  • Capable of managing multiple strategic projects simultaneously

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a strategic advisor through structured discovery engagements
  • Design scalable SEO and GEO operating models for long-term adoption
  • Lead workshops for stakeholder alignment and define program outcomes
  • Collaborate across teams to drive customer lifecycle strategy and growth
  • Contribute to consulting frameworks that enhance service delivery
  • Track performance metrics and recommend course corrections as needed
  • Identify risks and streamline processes to improve efficiency

Benefits

  • Clear opportunities for career growth and promotions
  • Access to global team structure across 40+ locations
  • Comprehensive onboarding including bootcamps
  • Recognition through President’s Club for top performers
  • Higher than average quota attainment rates
  • Uncapped commission potential
  • Comprehensive life and health insurance coverage
  • Flexible spending options and health savings accounts
  • Employee assistance programs and resource groups
  • Generous paid parental leave and travel coverage
Full Job Description
About the opportunity

The Sales team is at the forefront of empowering businesses to achieve online visibility and digital marketing success. Through our selling approach and world-class enablement programs, we equip our team with the tools, resources, and training. This is how we keep delivering meaningful results for our customers.

Joining the Sales team also means:

  • Fast forward and continuous career growth: the highest rate of promotions within the organization

  • A team spread across 40+ locations around the globe

  • Offline and online bootcamps as part of our onboarding process

  • President’s club—an opportunity to celebrate exceptional results and reward top performers in high-class vacation destination 

  • Quota attainment has been recognized as higher than market average, according to RepVue

  • Uncapped commissions

About your future tasks

About Semrush Consulting Services

Semrush Consulting Services is a team of digital strategy consultants, technical experts, and engagement managers who partner with enterprise customers to accelerate platform adoption and unlock measurable value across SEO and GEO, content strategy, competitive intelligence, and broader digital marketing ecosystems.

We deliver high-impact onboarding, advisory, implementation, and enablement services across the customer lifecycle. Our team works alongside some of the world’s most sophisticated marketing organizations to design scalable operating models, optimize workflows, and build sustainable digital growth systems that drive long-term business impact.

Role Overview

The Digital Strategy Consultant serves as a trusted advisor to enterprise customers, partnering with them to design and execute transformational SEO and GEO strategies that drive measurable business outcomes.

This role leads structured discovery, develops multi-quarter strategic roadmaps, and guides customers in building scalable operating models that embed SEO and GEO into their broader digital marketing ecosystem. The Digital Strategy Consultant works cross-functionally with Sales, Customer Success, and Product to ensure strategic alignment, accelerate time-to-value, and support long-term customer growth within the Enterprise segment.

Tasks in the role

Strategic Advisory, Discovery & Roadmapping: Serve as a strategic advisor to enterprise customers by leading structured discovery engagements to assess SEO and GEO maturity, operating models, workflows, and organizational readiness. Conduct in-depth opportunity analysis and competitive benchmarking, synthesizing complex insights into executive-ready recommendations. Translate findings into phased, multi-quarter SEO and GEO roadmaps aligned to measurable business outcomes, clearly defining priorities, milestones, and success criteria.

Governance, Adoption & Operating Model Transformation:Design scalable SEO and GEO governance frameworks and operating models that enable long-term adoption and cross-functional alignment. Establish scalable standards for workflows, accountability, reporting, and cross-functional collaboration across Marketing, Product, Engineering, and Content teams. Guide customers through change initiatives, stakeholder alignment, and rollout sequencing while diagnosing inefficiencies and recommending process optimizations that increase operational efficiency and reduce friction.

Executive Facilitation & Program Leadership: Lead structured workshops, prioritization sessions, and executive briefings to define outcomes and align stakeholders throughout the customer lifecycle, ensuring strategic alignment and long-term value realization.. Track performance against milestones and KPIs, proactively identify risks and implementation blockers, and recommend course corrections as business priorities evolve.

Lifecycle Strategy & Growth Alignment: Partner closely with Sales, Customer Success Managers, and Product teams to ensure strategic continuity throughout the customer lifecycle. Identify opportunities for expanded engagement and deeper alignment between customer goals and Semrush capabilities. Act as the voice of the customer by surfacing insights, risks, and product enhancement opportunities that support enterprise digital transformation.

Internal Strategy & Methodology Contribution: Contribute to the evolution of internal playbooks, consulting frameworks, and delivery methodologies that increase leverage and consistency across Strategic Services. Share patterns, insights, and best practices to continuously elevate enterprise strategy delivery.

About you

  • 8+ years of experience in digital strategy, SEO and GEO consulting, change management, enterprise advisory, or related roles within SaaS or MarTech environments

  • Proven experience leading structured discovery engagements and translating insights into actionable, executive-level strategic roadmaps

  • Demonstrated ability to design scalable operating models, governance frameworks, and cross-functional workflows

  • Experience influencing senior stakeholders and driving strategic alignment at the Director and VP level.

  • Strong expertise in SEO and GEO strategy, competitive analysis, and performance measurement with the ability to clearly connect strategic initiatives to commercial outcomes.

  • Exceptional facilitation, stakeholder-management, and executive communication skills

  • Ability to identify risks early, manage ambiguity, and re-prioritize initiatives in dynamic enterprise environments

  • Experience working cross-functionally with Marketing, Product, Engineering, and Executive stakeholders

  • Comfortable managing multiple strategic engagements simultaneously while maintaining high-quality outcomes

Not required, but a plus

  • Experience with enterprise-level SEO and GEO and digital marketing platforms such as Semrush, BrightEdge, Conductor, Botify, SimilarWeb, or others

  • Familiarity with AI-driven search trends, content strategy frameworks, and advanced analytics integrations

  • Background in digital marketing consultancy or professional services environments

The annual Total Cash Compensation range for this position is $131,000 to $190,000.

Compensation ranges for the same role in other countries may differ based on local market conditions, compensation philosophy, and regulatory requirements.

*International Locations*

Compensation ranges for this role outside of the United States may differ and will be determined based on local market benchmarks, compensation practices, and applicable regulations.

    About the perks


    • Strong product-market fit recognized by

    • High earning potential with clear quota attainment visibility

    • Life insurance

    • Low cost medical, dental, and vision plans

    • Accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance 

    • Dependent Care Savings Accounts and Flexible Spending Accounts

    • Health Savings Account 

    • Short-term and long-term Disability

    • Employee Assistance Program

    • Employee Resource Groups 

    • Paid parental leave

    • Relief Fund

    • Travel coverage 

    About SEMrush

    SEMrush is a software company that provides search engine optimization (SEO) and online marketing tools for businesses. The company's software platform is designed to help businesses improve their online visibility and increase their website traffic. SEMrush's tools include keyword research, site audit, backlink analysis, and competitor analysis. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
    Learn more about SEMrush
    Size
    1,000 employees
    Market Cap
    $1 billion
    Industry
    Founded
    2008
    NASDAQ

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