SEO Strategist (Consultant)

SEO Strategist (Consultant)

About the Role

House Buyers of America is a national cash-home-buying company that has been in business since 2001. We are currently recovering from a significant algorithmic Google penalty and are looking for an experienced, director-level SEO consultant to lead our recovery efforts and own our ongoing SEO strategy.

This is a freelance contract role — not a full-time position, and there is no path to full-time employment. We are looking for someone who is already operating as a full-time independent consultant and is comfortable in the freelance/consulting world. The engagement begins with a 3-month trial period, during which your performance will be evaluated against predetermined metrics. With demonstrated success, this role continues long-term.

This is not a hands-on execution role. You will be the strategic lead — auditing, prioritizing, directing, and managing a small team of freelancers (Dev, Junior SEO, and Content). The rare exception is a highly complex technical task that only you can define and initiate before handing off clearly to a team member.

What You'll Do

Conduct a thorough audit of our site, identify the root causes of our traffic decline, and build a fully prioritized task list in Asana within the first 30 days

Get the team immediately engaged in executing the highest-priority tasks — success in month one is both a complete priority list and a team actively working through it

Manage task assignments for our Dev, Junior SEO, and Content freelancers via Asana — writing clear, well-defined tickets and following up to keep work moving

Join two calls per month with our CEO, which require advance reporting and completion of a meeting document

Join two calls per month with the SEO team to coordinate and align priorities

Check in frequently with team members via Microsoft Teams to unblock assignments and push projects forward — this role requires consistent, proactive communication, not reactive availability

Review finished work before it is deployed to the live site

Participate in occasional ad hoc calls as needed

Submit a monthly invoice listing each task completed, the date it was performed, and the time committed

What We're Looking For

Experience:

Proven track record recovering sites from Google algorithmic penalties — we want specific case studies with before/after data and supporting screenshots from GSC or GA4

Experience with national-scope sites, including sites with large numbers of templated, location-specific pages

Familiarity with the We Buy Houses, cash home buying, or similar real estate transaction space is a strong plus

Minimum one year operating as a full-time independent consultant

• Technical:
• You don't need to be a senior developer, but you need to be someone who has routinely worked with, troubleshot, and feels comfortable quickly diagnosing issues in the following and handing off well-defined tasks to a team member:

WordPress (custom builds with lots of custom features and plugins)

Elementor

Kinsta

Cloudflare

RankMath

Google Tag Manager

Plugin conflicts, code-level troubleshooting

Management & Communication:

Comfortable managing freelancers via Asana with clear, spec-level task definitions

Highly communicative — able to respond to questions and concerns quickly, check in with the team proactively, and avoid becoming a bottleneck

Experienced running structured reporting and presenting findings to a CEO-level stakeholder

The Hiring Process

Application with written screening questions (below)

Initial interview

Paid 2-hour site audit — you will deliver a top-3 priority task list based on your findings

Final interview to present and defend the audit results

Why we are a great place to work:

Our company is FULLY REMOTE!

Our awesome company culture includes: competitive pay great benefits, great people, casual dress, team events, work hard/ play hard environment!

Revenue increased 67% year over year Jan-Nov 2025

Acquisitions increased 71% year over year Jan-Nov 2025

Dispositions increased 70% year over year Jan-Nov 2025

We’re continuing our nationwide expansion. Over the last year we’ve expanded to 44 states and Washington DC!

House Buyers of America is a residential real estate investment company founded in 2001 and headquartered in Tyson's Corner, VA. We buy, renovate, and resell a high volume of homes offering a guaranteed, fast, and hassle-free sale to people who want to sell their house without paying a Realtor commission. We have a history of strong growth and success, having bought and sold thousands of houses. Our Company went from $0 to $50 million in annual revenue in its first 3 years in business and won the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year award. House Buyers of America is proudly a member of the Inc 5000 list.

House Buyers is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate by sex, creed, race, or by age. www.HouseBuyersOfAmerica.com