Search & Growth Hiring
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Discover how Withfrontier has helped ambitious agencies, SaaS companies and challenger brands hire exceptional SEO, Paid Media, Digital PR and Growth Marketing talent.

Every placement is built on industry expertise, trusted relationships and a deep understanding of modern search.

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Australia

From the UK to the Gold Coast

Edge Marketing is an Australian marketing agency on the Gold Coast.

Co-founder Rohan Dwyer was looking for a Head of SEO who could take ownership of the agency’s SEO department, shape its SEO proposition and drive the service line forward.

SUCCESS STORIES

Results That Speak for Themselves

A selection of successful hires and long-term partnerships across the digital marketing industry.

UK

Seven Years. 17 Hires. One Future MD.

Reboot is an independent digital marketing agency specialising in Search, Digital PR and Paid Media.

Our relationship with the agency developed over seven years, meaning we were able to support the business as its hiring requirements evolved.

That included finding specialist practitioners across SEO and Paid Media, commercial Growth hires and, eventually, senior leaders capable of taking significant responsibility for the direction and operation of the agency.

As the business grew, the hires became increasingly strategic.

Two searches in particular would ultimately help shape Reboot’s senior leadership team: Director of Growth and Director of Operations.

UK

Putting a Leader Behind Mediavision’s Growth

Mediavision is an established independent digital agency, working with ambitious brands across Search and digital performance.

Having built a successful agency and strong client base over more than a decade, the business was ready to put greater senior ownership around growth.

Until this point, responsibility for winning new business and growing the agency had been shared across the senior team. The next stage required someone who could take proper ownership of it.

This wasn’t simply about hiring a salesperson.

Mediavision wanted someone who could work across the entire agency, bringing together sales, new business, marketing, positioning and brand visibility into a coherent growth strategy.

UK

Finding an SEO Who Speaks Sneaker

The Sole Supplier is one of the UK’s leading footwear and streetwear platforms, helping sneaker fans discover the latest releases, news and trends from some of the biggest brands in the world.

The business has grown significantly, building a highly engaged audience alongside a team with a genuine passion for the space.

That culture was particularly important to them.

This isn’t a business where people simply happen to work in footwear and streetwear. The team genuinely lives and breathes the product outside of work, and preserving that as the company grows is a major priority.

SEO was already an important acquisition channel and The Sole Supplier had an external agency supporting its activity. The next step was to bring somebody senior enough in-house to take proper ownership of the channel.

UK

Five Years. One Trusted Partner.

Founded in 1810, Heal’s is one of Britain’s most iconic furniture and interior design brands. For the past five years, we’ve partnered with Head of eCommerce Mark Hammond, supporting the growth of his digital team through specialist hires across eCommerce, performance marketing and design.

UK

Taking the Weight Off the Founder

Tacomi is a specialist Search agency with deep expertise across SEO, technical SEO and the evolving AEO landscape.

We had already been working with founder Chad Conlon and the team when they approached us about one of the most important hires they were about to make to date.

The agency was already operating at a very high technical level, but Chad remained heavily involved in the day-to-day. The next stage of growth required someone senior enough to take genuine ownership from him, without compromising the quality of work that had helped Tacomi build its reputation.

UK

From First Hires to Future Leaders

NOVOS is a specialist eCommerce Search agency, helping ambitious retailers and challenger brands drive organic growth through SEO, Digital PR, content and wider Search.

Its eCommerce focus is fundamental to the business – it’s not a generalist agency with an eCommerce offering. Years of specialisation have created a highly knowledgeable team capable of solving increasingly complex Search challenges across platforms, markets and categories.

That makes NOVOS an exciting place for ambitious Search marketers – and a challenging place to recruit for. But that’s what I do.

UK

40 Hires and Counting

Vervaunt is a specialist eCommerce consultancy and performance marketing agency, working with ambitious DTC, retail, fashion and luxury brands including Dr. Martens, PANGAIA, The Frankie Shop, Osprey, Paul Smith, Mulberry, A.P.C. and Sunspel.

Its expertise spans Paid Search, Paid Social, Shopping, Affiliates, Creative and wider eCommerce strategy, but what really sets Vervaunt apart is the depth of its approach.

Rather than simply managing media budgets and reporting on ROAS, its consultants get under the bonnet of each business – understanding its commercial objectives, customer journey, technology, margins, inventory and wider eCommerce strategy to make better marketing decisions.

That depth requires a particular calibre of person.

UK

The Search for Osprey’s SEO Champion

Osprey is a globally recognised outdoor brand, best known for its backpacks, travel packs and outdoor equipment.

With a strong international eCommerce presence and products sold around the world, Organic Search represented an important field in their fight to grow their digital presence.

Until this point, however, SEO hadn’t had a dedicated internal owner.

They wanted to change that by bringing the discipline in-house for the first time, hiring somebody who could establish a clear global strategy, work across the wider organisation to execute it and manage its existing agency relationship from an informed position.

This meant their first SEO hire needed to be a particularly well-rounded one.

UK

Three Hires. One Recipe for Growth.

Wild Nutrition is a premium health and supplements brand, founded by nutritional therapist Henrietta Norton. Built around its Food-Grown® supplements, the business has grown into one of the UK’s best-known independent brands within the wellness and nutrition space.

With a strong DTC model and ambitious plans for growth, Wild Nutrition needed specialist digital talent capable of making a genuine commercial impact within a fast-moving, entrepreneurial environment.

USA

Making a Case for Elite Legal PPC

Pareto Legal is a fast-growing, fiercely independent US performance marketing agency with a deep focus on one highly competitive vertical: legal.

UK

Building a C-Suite for the Next Stage of Growth

MNC is a specialised, DTC eCommerce-focused agency with more than 30 years’ experience helping fast-growth challenger brands scale through full-funnel, channel-agnostic performance media strategies.

Alongside its primary media offering, MNC has expanded through Club and Ventures, creating a wider ecosystem designed to support challenger brands at different stages of their growth. Their offer spans from performance marketing strategy through to VC investments for brands.

At the point that we began working with MNC, the business was entering a particularly exciting period of accelerated change.

It had recently acquired one of our longstanding clients, a specialist eCommerce growth consultancy, as part of a move to further strengthen its digital capabilities.

With the business evolving, MNC was ready to strengthen its senior leadership team, bringing in genuine C-suite powerhouses capable of helping shape the agency’s next chapter.

We were introduced to MNC Partner Joe Benn following a strong referral from a longstanding Withfrontier client. From there, we worked closely with Joe and Head of Talent Hattie Ward.

What started with one senior search developed into a relationship spanning around 12 months and a series of strategically important appointments.

USA

Three Critical Hires in 90 Days

Market My Market is a high-growth US digital marketing agency specialising predominantly in Search marketing for legal, medical, veterinary, home services and other highly competitive service-based sectors.

With more than 200 clients and having doubled in size over a short period of time, the opportunity was huge. But, by their own admission, that pace of growth also created challenges.

We were initially introduced to CMO Guido Tebano through Valeria Nunez, a previous client of ours. That led to an introduction to Chief of Staff Erin Gough, who we worked closely with across all three searches.

What started with one particularly difficult senior hire quickly developed into a much broader recruitment partnership.

USA

Case Closed: Finding Armada’s First SEO Leader

Armada Law is a fast-growing US Personal Injury law firm based in Charlotte, North Carolina, headed up by accomplished attorney Chris Carsten.

Chris and his COO, Kris Knopf, knew that organic growth, and SEO in particular, represented a significant opportunity for the business. Having become disillusioned with an over-reliance on digital agencies, they no longer wanted to outsource ownership of such an important channel. They wanted to start building genuine SEO expertise internally.

That meant making a foundational hire. Somebody who wouldn’t simply inherit an established strategy, team and way of working, but would help Armada build all three.

They needed their first senior SEO.

UK

Building the Founding Team Behind an AI Search Rocketship

Searchable is an AI Search SaaS platform founded by one of the biggest names in the industry, Chris Donnelly. This is a long-term client who has achieved phenomenal things in the digital space. He built Searchable to help brands understand and improve how they appear across the rapidly evolving AI Search landscape.

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