Rizeup Media

Rizeup Media

RizeUp Media is a fast-growing digital agency managing SEO and content delivery across 500 client accounts.

As demand increased, they needed to strengthen their strategic layer while also building deeper SEO capability inside their account management function.

The brief

RizeUp Media came to Search For Hire during a rapid growth phase, managing over 500 accounts, with 80–90 client accounts per SEO, and needing stronger strategic depth without slowing delivery.

Within 30 days, three high-impact roles were hired through a tailored, outcome-led process, giving them the senior capability and team structure needed to scale sustainably.

“We can’t afford to get distracted by hiring. We’re doubling our revenue every year and we need to focus on high growth activities.

Recruiting is a full time job… we need pros on that so we can keep steering the ship.“

— Rizeup Media’s Leadership Team

The challenge

RizeUp Media was scaling quickly, but their internal structure needed reinforcement. They were looking for:

• An SEO Strategist to own content strategy and oversee SEO delivery across 80 to 90 accounts
• Additional SEO capability within Account Management to improve execution quality
• Senior strategic support, ideally with legal SEO experience
• A process that could deliver multiple hires in a short time frame, without slowing client delivery

This was not a single-role hire. It was a team build. And it needed to happen fast.

The process

Search For Hire started by scoping a hybrid SEO Strategist role focused on content-led SEO strategy, managing performance across 80 to 90 client accounts, and driving consistent frameworks and execution standards across the team.

Search For Hire activated the passive talent network and presented RizeUp Media with a first batch of candidates. RizeUp Media interviewed every candidate on the initial shortlist.

From that first round alone, one candidate was hired into the Digital SEO Strategist role, and a slightly more junior candidate was identified as a strong fit for Account Management, adding SEO capability to their client team.

Shortly after, another senior candidate with extensive legal industry experience was introduced. After interview, RizeUp Media hired them as a Senior Strategist. In parallel, an additional high-potential profile was surfaced via Isaac Media for review, continuing to expand optionality as their needs evolved.

The Layered Team Structure

• Strategy leadership at the top: SEO Strategist owning content strategy and delivery frameworks
• SEO execution embedded into Account Management: raising execution quality across client accounts
• Senior domain expertise at the top: Senior Strategist with legal industry experience to support complex client verticals

The outcome

Within 30 days, RizeUp Media successfully hired one SEO Strategist, one SEO-enabled Account Manager, and one Senior Strategist with legal industry expertise.

All three team members are still with the business, thriving in their roles and contributing directly to client performance and internal capability.

Off the back of this success, RizeUp Media has already opened three more interviews for an additional senior position as they continue to scale.

“Three strategic hires in just 30 days gave RizeUp Media the momentum they needed to keep pushing forward.

It wasn’t just about speed, it was about placing the right people, fast, so they could continue their impressive growth trajectory without slowing delivery.“

— Daris Benallal, Head of Recruitment for Search for Hire

Why this matters

For agencies doubling revenue year on year, recruitment is either a growth enabler or a growth blocker. Every week leadership spends sourcing, screening, and interviewing is a week not spent on clients, strategy, or new business. RizeUp Media understood that and outsourced the function entirely.

The layered team build, not just a single hire, is what made the difference. Strategy leadership alone would have left execution gaps.

Account-level SEO capability without strategic direction would have created inconsistency. Senior legal expertise without the other two would have been isolated.

The right architecture, built in the right order, is what allows an agency managing 500 accounts to scale without the team breaking under the load.

Three hires. Thirty days. All still in the business. That is what outcome-led, team-architecture-first recruitment looks like.