Hennessey Digital

Hennessey Digital

Jason Hennessey has spent the better part of two decades building the most recognised name in legal SEO.

As founder of Hennessey Digital (6 x Inc. 5000 company and recipient of the prestigious Inc. Best Workplaces honors), author of Law Firm SEO, host of The Jason Hennessey Podcast, and one of the most sought-after speakers in the legal marketing space, Jason has built an agency that dominates a vertical most generalists cannot crack.

Hennessey Digital runs SEO and digital programmes for some of the largest personal injury and law firm brands in the United States.

In 2025, the agency joined forces with Herringbone Digital, expanding the platform and the calibre of work the team takes on.

Hennessey works with the kind of law firms where one client retention call matters more than a hundred LinkedIn impressions. To stay there, Jason and Kristine Hyman (Senior Director of Client Services, ex-Brainlabs, the operator who scaled their AM function from $10M to $23M) cannot afford to hire anyone who isn’t elite.

That is not a standard you compromise on.

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The brief

When Hennessey Digital needed to add a Senior SEO Account Manager to lead a portfolio of high-value legal accounts, fully remote across the US, they came to Search for Hire.

This was Kristine’s first time working with an external recruiter on a senior client-facing hire. The role had been open while the internal team worked the problem.

Every additional day it sat open carried a real cost, in account pressure, senior leadership bandwidth, and lost commercial momentum. Run your own number on the Cost of Vacancy Calculator).

The challenge

Hennessey Digital’s reputation is built on the quality of client leadership their AMs bring to law firm partners who do not tolerate being unheard.

A mis-hire at this level doesn’t just slow things down, it costs accounts.

The Senior SEO Account Manager role required a precise combination of capabilities:

Deep B2B and agency-side account leadership experience, ideally with exposure to high-stakes, high-touch client relationships.

A proven ability to act as the commercial bridge between demanding law firm partners and an internal SEO delivery team, so neither side feels unheard.

The personal credibility, executive presence, and SEO fluency to step into a $200k+ monthly book of accounts and earn client trust from week one.

A 100% remote-first operating style, with the discipline to lead client strategy and quarterback delivery without hand-holding.

Add the legal-niche overlay (local SEO, E-E-A-T, Google’s medical and legal vertical rules, and the very specific cadence of personal injury marketing) and the field narrows fast.

Here’s what Jason, Founder, Hennessey Digital (5-star Trustpilot review) had to say 

” We recently partnered with Josh and his team at Search For Hire to help us recruit a Senior Account Manager for our agency, and I couldn’t be more impressed with the experience.

From the very beginning, the communication, professionalism, and understanding of our needs were top-notch. Within just 25 days of our onboarding call, they identified and helped us hire the perfect candidate for the role.

Finding high-level talent in today’s market is not easy, especially for leadership and client-facing positions, but Josh made the process feel seamless and efficient.

If you’re looking for a recruiting partner that moves fast, understands agency culture, and delivers quality candidates, I highly recommend Search For Hire.

Looking forward to building a much deeper partnership together as our team continues to grow.”

— Jason Hennessey, Founder of Hennessey Digital

The process

Search for Hire’s team activated the search from the moment the role was briefed on 23rd April.

The hiring board was live with five pre-screened, fully assessed candidates four days later.

Four days from brief to shortlist.

Candidate criteria

We sought a Senior SEO Account Manager from a US agency background, with proven experience leading client-facing strategy on complex, high-value B2B accounts. Legal vertical exposure was a strong plus, but not the gate. The non-negotiables were senior client presence, SEO depth across local and content programmes, and the temperament to own a portfolio without escalation.

Beyond execution, the role demanded systems thinking. Hennessey Digital was not hiring a coordinator, they were hiring an operator who could raise the bar around them and free senior leadership to focus on growth.

Cultural fit mattered equally. The successful candidate needed the personal credibility to be trusted with marquee law firm relationships, and the discipline to thrive in a remote-first, high-accountability environment.

Evaluation process

From 257 candidates sourced and assessed, the strongest 10 were submitted to Hennessey for review.

70% of those submissions progressed to first-stage interview, against an industry average of 20-30%.

90% of first-stage interviews progressed to second stage, against an industry average of 40-50%.

Throughout the process, Search for Hire managed candidate communication end to end, coordinated the two-stage interview cycle with Kristine and her team, and held momentum on both sides. No long silences, no candidates going cold, no client waiting on a shortlist that never lands.

The result was a three-finalist round inside Hennessey, and a clean offer accepted on Day 25.

The experience on the candidate side reflected the Search for Hire standard:

“A big shout out to Daris (Search For Hire Senior Recruiter), who took the time and energy into proactively connecting me with an amazing SEO Company that was not on my radar at the time.

He is amazing at what he does! Thanks again!”

– The new Senior SEO Account Manager, Hennessey Digital (5-Star Trustpilot Review)

The outcome

A Senior SEO Account Manager placed into one of the most recognised teams in legal SEO, on Hennessey’s exact spec, inside their timeline, and with a candidate experience that reflected the care both businesses bring to the people they work with.

The candidate signed on 18 May 2026 and started on 26 May 2026.

From brief to placement in 25 days, comfortably ahead of the 45 to 60 day industry average for specialist SEO roles, and bang on Search for Hire’s brand promise of filling 95% of roles within 25 days.

The placement is backed by the Search for Hire 1-Year Guarantee, the industry’s most comprehensive commitment to placement quality.

“Search For Hire combined the rigor of great search firms with access to an exceptional talent pool in our target vertical.

This is a very rare combination, making SFH a leader in this space.”

– Matt Larson, Head of Operations, Herringbone Digital (5-Star Trustpilot Review)

Why this matters

Agencies operating at Hennessey Digital’s level do not get there by lowering the bar when it gets hard to hire.

They hold it, and find partners who can hold it with them.

The right Senior SEO Account Manager inside Hennessey does not just fill a seat. They protect client retention on accounts that fund the next stage of the agency’s growth, free Kristine and the senior team to focus on the bigger picture, and raise the standard of every AM around them.

That is why Search for Hire exists.

Hennessey Digital filled a senior, niche, client-facing role in 25 days, the first time they’d ever used an external recruiter. If your role has been open longer than it should, book a call, or run our Cost of Vacancy Calculator to see what it’s costing you.