Director of Local SEO
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Director of Local SEO for TopDog Law, handling local search and LSA strategies across multiple markets. Leading optimization to maximize calls, brand trust, and conversion in legal services.
Responsibilities:
- Own TopDog Law’s local search, LSA, and external authority strategy end-to-end across all active and expansion markets
- Define and evolve strategy for Google Business Profiles, Local Services Ads, local rankings, external links, and local conversion performance
- Establish standards and governance for scale across 40+ locations and service areas
- Drive consistent optimization to maximize calls, clicks, and trust signals
- Own review strategy as a growth and trust engine across GMB and LSAs
- Define and maintain the canonical source of truth for firm and location data
- Own external link acquisition strategy focused on local relevance, authority, and trust
- Lead schema markup strategy including LocalBusiness, LegalService, Review, FAQ, and Service schema
- Use performance insights to guide prioritization and optimization across GMB, LSAs, links, and organic traffic
- Collaborate with web, product, performance marketing, CX, legal, and creative teams to ensure local presence, directories, and LSAs reinforce brand credibility, trust, and seriousness across markets.
Requirements:
- Proven experience owning and scaling local SEO, LSAs, and link acquisition across many locations or service areas
- Deep expertise in Google Business Profiles, LSAs, reviews, citations, and local ranking factors
- Strong experience managing legal-specific lawyer directories and authority platforms or similar experience in other industries
- Hands-on experience with LSA verification, compliance, and optimization
- Strong understanding of schema markup and authority signals in local search
- Experience building repeatable systems that scale
- Demonstrated ability to connect local, LSA, and authority performance to real business outcomes
- Strong analytical mindset with comfort using performance data to guide decisions
- Proven success operating in high-ownership, fast paced environments
- Ability to collaborate cross-functionally with technical, creative, legal, and CX teams
- Clear communicator who can present insights, risks, and recommendations to stakeholders.
Benefits:
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and protection plans
- 4% 401(k) company match
- Company-paid holidays, two floating holidays, and five paid sick days
- Paid time off: 120 hours in year one, 160 hours beginning your second anniversary, 200 hours annually starting your fifth anniversary


















