What you’ll do

  • Work with the Head of Marketing to build our SEO and content strategy 
  • Carry out keyword research to support SEO strategy
  • Brief written content to freelance writers and manage our overall content backlog 
  • Get stuck into sub-eding, and occasionally write content for across the website 
  • Manage content requests from our internal team and prioritise them in our content backlog alongside SEO content 
  • Set up SEO reporting for Octopus Electric Vehicles, monitoring our organic growth, sharing performance updates and insights with a wider group of stakeholders 
  • Communicate with the wider team to make sure key stakeholders are not only aware of performance but also landscape changes and the impact our actions are having on organic traffic
  • Work with our PR Lead to ideate and execute outreach campaigns to drive backlinks and brand awareness for Octopus Electric Vehicles 
  • Come up with inventive ways to drive backlinks from our broad set of business clients 
  • Work with Product and Development team to make sure all website development is done in an SEO friendly way 
  • Make sure we have access to the right tools to have high quality conversations about further strategy development
  • What you’ll need

  • A deep understanding of what drives organic growth, particularly for new start-up businesses 
  • A passion for keeping up with algorithm changes, SEO trends and opportunities that may benefit our SEO approach 
  • Excellent writing and editing skills and a confidence in relaying complex information in an easily digestible way 
  • Great stakeholder management skills 
  • An appreciation for brand consistency and ability to feed back clearly to writers of any content to make sure all writing is on-brand 
  • Experience in leading SEO activity, ideally in a B2B team
  • An understanding of the wider marketing mix and how SEO fits in, including an ability to show the commercial value of organic growth for the business 
  • Why else you’ll love it here

  • Wondering what the salary for this role is? Just ask us! On a call with one of our recruiters it’s something we always cover as we genuinely want to match your experience with the correct salary. The reason why we don’t advertise is because we honestly have a degree of flexibility and would never want salary to be a reason why someone doesn’t apply to Octopus – what’s more important to us is finding the right octofit!
  • Octopus Energy is a unique culture . An organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker. Where people work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground. We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about! We won best company to work for in 2022, on Glassdoor we we’re voted 50 best places to work in 2022 and our Group CEO, Greg has recorded a podcast about our culture and how we empower our people
  • Visit our perks hub – Octopus Employee Benefits
  • If this sounds like you then we’d love to hear from you. Studies have shown that some groups of people, like women, are less likely to apply to a role unless they meet 100% of the job requirements. Whoever you are, if you like one of our jobs, we encourage you to apply as you might just be the candidate we hire. Across Octopus, we’re looking for genuinely decent people who are honest and empathetic. Our people are our strongest asset and the unique skills and perspectives people bring to the team are the driving force of our success. As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute. Our commitment is to provide equal opportunities, an inclusive work environment, and fairness for everyone.