Digital Marketing Specialist

Digital Surfer is an innovative digital media agency dedicated to effectively marketing our client’s online presence through their website design, organic presence, paid advertising and other marketing activities.

  • Great company culture – Friendly Team of people and a great path to career progression as the team grows.
  • Work that stays at work – Genuine work/life balance
  • Amazing people –  Passionate team members willing to help

We are on the search for a truly outstanding, passionate, intelligent Digital Marketing Specialist to join our growing team on the Gold Coast.

Digital Surfer Careers

Why Work With Us

We strongly believe if you look after your people, they look after your clients. When you work with us, you receive the support and care you need to thrive in your career and life.

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Education

At Digital Surfer, you’ll be encouraged to grow and develop your skills and knowledge. We regularly attend conferences, take courses and have monthly cross-skilling training sessions to invest in our education as individuals and as a business.
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Flexibility

Having a good work-life balance makes for happy people and team members. We make every effort to ensure you have the balance you need. From our half-day on Fridays to our flexible work hours we work with you to ensure you’re happy.
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Human

Our owners, Peter and Renee, take great pride in building connections with every team member and learning what will help make them successful. They make it their mission to help every team member love coming to work each day.
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The Opportunity

We have an exciting opportunity for a full-time Digital Marketing Specialist within our Gold Coast team. 

  • You’ll be responsible for the proactive development and ongoing management of SEO strategies, Digital PR, and PPC campaigns to an array of existing and new clients across various industries.  
  • Develop, discuss and implement strategic strategies, deliver quality performance reporting back to clients that delivers results inline with goals, KPI’s and forecasts.
  • Project manage tasks within the team, content management, and use of popular content management systems.
  • SEO & PPC campaigns will cover both service and product-based websites.

Key functions of the role

You will come from a background of digital marketing, with the ability to understand business goals and technical constraints;  knowledge, and experience of SEO strategy & implementation, PPC campaign development and creation, and WordPress website development.

Most importantly YOU live and breathe digital marketing, YOU are driven, YOU are a team player, and YOU are motivated.

The Role

  • Consult closely with your key clients on SEO & PPC strategies. Provide analytics & performance reporting on the overall sites to team/management & your clients
  • Implementation of cutting edge SEO strategies – Auditing websites and providing recommendations to improve SEO visibility, plus strategic content management
  • Research, implement and manage PPC campaigns
  • Development and creation of websites or pages inline with SEO & PPC campaigns
  • Project Management of work through the agency systems & ability to manage multiple campaigns at once.
  • Reporting & analysis! ROI – conversion metrics, KPI performance, keyword optimisation and confidently communicating your findings to clients (face to face and via the phone/zoom)
  • Management of client expectations throughout the SEO, PPC, and website build process.

Fit for Role

  • You love data and are analytically minded.
  • You’re a natural problem solver and an avid reader. You’re always on top of the latest search and paid ad trends and willing to tackle a challenge.
  • You work well with others and enjoy teaming up within the team and value the relationships you have at work.
  • Excellent verbal and handwritten communication skills, as well as high attention to detail
  • Minimum 12 to 18 months within a digital marketing agency managing multiple high level clients
  • A good understanding of SEO service & product-based strategy, Google My Business optimisation, Digital PR, PPC strategies, and how to effectively implement various techniques on a website to ensure campaigns are successful.
  • Experience with popular SEO tools, including keyword research tools, Google Analytics, Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster, SEMRush, keyword tracking tools etc.
  • Experience in multiple paid ads platforms – Google, Microsoft, Meta, LinkedIn 
  • Certified in all Google Paid Ads certifications
  • Experience with popular content management systems, such as WordPress.
  • Positive, ability to learn quickly, self-motivated, passionate, enthusiastic, a can-do attitude & dynamic, are a few “keywords” that describe the best fit personality for this position.

Apply to Work for an amazing agency

  • Your current resume, detailing your experience in SEO, PPC & website development. How many years of experience you have in digital marketing. and any other platforms, tools, and strategies used.
  • Current references
  • Confirmation of your right to work in Australia – Australian Citizen or appropriate work VISA
  • Ability to work at our Burleigh Heads, Gold Coast office
  • What’s your expected salary.

How to Work for Us

Our owners, Peter and Renee Curran, are passionate about inspiring and guiding the next generation of digital marketers. As entrepreneurs and digital marketing experts themselves, they invest time in students from Griffith University and Gold Coast TAFE, guiding them on essential skills to help students grow with the ever-evolving world of digital marketing.

Search Engine Optimisation

Work with our multi-award winning SEO team with local, national and international clients to tap into and expand your skills. You’ll use your SEO skills to allow our clients to expand their reach and bring in new revenue streams to level up their business.

WEB DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT

Use your website design and development skills to work with businesses who have their eyes on the big prize. We are always on the lookout for UX designers, eCommerce developers and other specialised website builders to join the team.

Paid Advertising

Put your paid ads skills to good use, helping business owners transform their lives. We are always on the lookout for data-driven, PPC experts specialising in Google, Bing, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, Pinterest and other ads platforms.

Hear Why Our Team Loves Digital Surfer

★★★★★

Since joining the Digital Surfer team, I have been presented with endless opportunities to grow both professionally & personally. Both Pete & Renee are super supportive and genuinely care about everyone on the team. Being given the freedom to innovate and create our monthly training program has been a highlight of my development.

While we work hard for all our clients, we also have a lot of fun while we’re at it, with regular social team bonding events & our monthly training days.

Ryan Chilton

SEO & Digital Marketing Specialist

★★★★★

Working with Digital Surfer has given me so many amazing opportunities to grow – both as a digital marketer and within the scope of the role. Pete and Renee are open to suggestions for improvement when learning new skills and always hear out any ideas we come to them with.

Digital Surfer offers an amazing work environment with regular team building and bonding, as well as periodic workshops and team training to make sure we’re all giving our best to each client.

Brodie McGrath

SEO & Content Specialist

Looking To Join Our Team? Submit Your EOI Today!