LONDON, UK (Hybrid Working - 2-3 days in the office per week)
Day rate: £288
Working pattern: 4 days per week
Croud is a global, full service digital marketing agency with a unique business model that helps businesses drive sustainable growth in the new world of marketing. Croud was recently named a Sunday Times Best Place to Work for the second year in a row, and was named Performance Marketing Employer of the Year by PMW.
At Croud, we unlock potential by elevating our people, clients, and communities within a rapidly advancing and complex economy. We operate as a unique scaled network of Intelligent, Creative Specialists, enabling us to deliver superior brand outcomes and unlock potential for our people, our clients and our communities.
Our culture is strategically driven and inspired by a shared long-term vision. It is collaborative and connected, with a focus on continuous learning and mutual support.
We are energised by future thinking, driving innovation to achieve better outcomes. We are instinctively generous, actively including and empowering our people. Above all, we are purpose-driven, committed to positively impacting our people, the planet, and our global communities.
We are looking for an experienced Technical Search Director Contractor for 6 weeks to lead the strategic direction, operational excellence, and technical delivery of Croud’s Web Experience and Technical SEO capability, ensuring client websites are optimised for modern search discovery, AI chat engines, and technical performance across the Organic Performance portfolio.
You will serve as Croud’s interim senior technical authority on Web Experience and Technical SEO workstreams. This is a specialist director role that combines expert-level, hands-on technical execution with cross-departmental leadership and agency-wide capability development.
Reporting into the Head of Organic Strategy, you will work in close alignment with Croud’s Organic Strategy teams to audit, architect, and roadmap technical SEO improvements designed for next-generation search. You will ensure client websites are fully crawlable, accessible, and structured for maximum content extraction, not only for traditional search engines, but also for AI summaries and conversational LLM interfaces. Acting as the vital bridge between SEO strategy and technical delivery, you will partner directly with client web development teams to translate audits into clear, actionable code specifications and tickets, while serving as the senior point of expertise on technical projects such as site migrations and platform rebuilds.
Croud operates a hybrid working model with a minimum of 2-3 days a week based in our London office and the remaining days from home if you wish.
Standard hours are from 9.00am to 5.30pm, there’s flexibility if agreed in advance with your line managers (it may also be necessary on occasions to work outside of these hours).
Croud is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the grounds of a person's gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation. All candidates will be assessed based on merit, qualifications and their ability to perform the requirements of the role.
At Croud, our vision centres around the idea of unlocking potential. We do this by elevating everyone in an inclusive and progressive culture, empowering individuals to deliver their best work. This means we build better brand outcomes, and unlock potential for our people, our clients and our communities.
We live and breathe five core values that foster a culture where everyone can thrive. Our commitment to elevating each other is fundamental to both our cultural and business success. The ideal candidate will excel in and demonstrate the following:
We're an independent global media, creative, and data agency helping our clients make their next best move.
We help brands unlock growth with a Return on Intelligence - applying innovative intelligence across brand strategy, integrated media, social, creative, and data. In a world where agility is essential and not all returns are created equal, we bring transparency, speed, and incrementality-focused measurement to fuel growth and unlock true value.
Founded in 2011 with the mission to reinvent the agency model, we combine 600+ in-house digital experts with a global, on-demand network of 2,900 marketing specialists. This agile, scalable model gives us more time to really understand our clients’ businesses, and deliver truly incremental growth.
Croud has recently acquired Vert Digital, an Atlanta-based digital marketing agency, and Metageni, an analytics specialist, having previously acquired leading social-first agency Born Social, Croud Luxe (formerly VERB Brands), and impakt Advisors.
Croud is proud to partner with leading global brands including Audible, IWG, Frasers Group, Nespresso, and Prime Video, alongside Born Social’s impressive client list which includes Ford, Barclays and Diageo (Guinness).
Contact the team at partnerships@croud.com for a chat, to set up an intro or any other further information.
We are always looking for the very best talent, so if you're interested in working for Croud please check out careers.croud.com
