Alpha Key Digital

Creating digital strategies that unlock growth and possibility.

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About Alpha Key Digital
Alpha Key Digital helps aesthetic medicine practices grow digitally with tailored, effective strategies. We’ve spent a decade building online assets for plastic surgery, dermatology, and medical spa practices, along with premium home and professional service businesses across Northeast Ohio and beyond. SEO, paid media, web design, content, and video. We’re not generalists. We’re specialists who understand the nuance of a high-ticket aesthetic consult and a home services estimate, and we can tell you the difference.We believe in transparency, accountability, and collaboration, and we work closely with our clients at every step. We’re small on purpose, we do good work, and our clients stay with us for years.
The RoleWe’re hiring our first Client Services Lead: the person who will own how work gets done here. You’ll take full ownership of the client lifecycle from kickoff through renewal: setting the strategy, directing our specialist bench toward client goals, owning whether the marketing actually performs, and being the person clients count on week to week. Our founder stays close to the relationships and new business. You own the machine that delivers.This is not a coordinator role with a bigger title, and it isn’t pure account management either. You’ll be accountable for results, not just for communication about results. As the portfolio grows, this seat becomes the one that builds a team underneath it, both on the client side and the performance side. If you’ve been running client services inside someone else’s agency and want the authority to actually build the system your way, this is that job.
What You Actually Do
You’d Be a Great Fit If You Were…
Systems instinct – The person who, when something falls through the cracks, builds the process that prevents it next time, instead of just fixing the one thingVerifies firsthand – Someone who opens the ads account and the analytics before a client call rather than reading a summary someone else wroteSteady under pressure – Genuinely calmer than average when a client is upset, a deadline slipped, or a campaign underperformedFollow-through over ideas – More satisfied by a month where everything shipped on time than by a month where you had one brilliant ideaDirect without damage – Comfortable telling a specialist their work isn’t good enough, and specific enough about why that they can actually fix itHolds tension – Able to hold healthy tension with a contractor who wants more hours and a client who wants more results, without needing someone above you to referee itReads people – The kind of person who reads a client’s email and can tell what they’re actually worried about underneath the requestSelf-directed – Someone who’d rather be handed a messy situation and left alone to sort it than be given step-by-step directionAccountable to a number – Energized by owning a number and being accountable for it: retention, performance, profitabilityExacting – Detail-oriented in a way that occasionally annoys people, and you’ve made peace with thatRange across industries – Able to sit on a call with a plastic surgeon and a roofing contractor in the same afternoon and speak both languagesWants ownership – Looking for a place where your judgment matters more than your job description
Key Responsibilities
Client relationships and account ownership
Serve as the primary point of contact for clients, running check-ins, reporting calls, and strategy updatesRun onboarding for new clients, from kickoff through first deliverablesManage expectations and deliver hard news without losing the relationshipIdentify at-risk accounts early and lead the response before they become save situationsKnow what each client is paying, what that buys in resources, and make the case to the client when the goal requires more than the current scope coversSpot expansion opportunities within existing accounts and bring them to the founder
Client performance and results
Own the marketing outcome across SEO, paid search and paid social, and websites for every account in the portfolioSet the strategy for each account against the client’s goals, then direct the specialist bench toward itReview performance data on a monthly cycle: know why a number moved, decide what changes, and be able to defend the callReview contractor deliverables critically, including SEO plans, ad account structure, site changes, and contentOwn the monthly reporting cycle: performance recaps, lead reporting, and client-facing summariesProtect account profitability by managing hours and scope against what the client is paying
Systems and workflow
Manage our project management system (Asana) as the source of truth for what’s happening and what’s nextBuild and document repeatable delivery processes so quality doesn’t depend on any one person’s memoryHold the team to the workflows once they exist, and update them when reality changesCoordinate with our Operations Coordinator on scheduling, inboxes, timesheets, and administrative follow-through
Team leadership and development
Scope work for our contractor bench (SEO, paid media, development, video), review quality, and hold timelinesRun monthly one-on-ones and quarterly check-ins with contractorsMake sure the people doing the work have the context, access, assets, and answers they need to execute, and clear the blockers when they don’tRecommend adding, replacing, or removing contractors. You’ll have the founder’s backing on those calls, and the final decision stays with the founderBuild out the team underneath this seat as the portfolio growsReport directly to the founder with a standing weekly strategy session

Qualifications
Required
At least 3 years working inside a digital marketing agency, with 2 or more owning client relationships, delivery, or client services leadershipDemonstrated ownership of client relationships. You’ve been the person clients call, not the person behind that personReal working knowledge of performance marketing: SEO, paid search and paid social, content, and WordPress websites. Enough depth to review specialist work critically, catch what’s wrong, and explain results to a client in their languageComfort reading and interpreting Google Analytics, Search Console, and ad platform data, and turning it into a recommendationHands-on comfort with WordPress: you can get into a site, spot what’s wrong, make or direct the fix, and speak credibly to a developer about it. You won’t be doing production development work, but you can’t be dependent on someone else to tell you whether the site is the problemExperience managing external contractors, freelancers, or vendorsExcellent written communication. Most client trust in this business is built over email
Preferred
Experience leading a team, a department, or a function inside a larger organization: you’ve grown a small team into a bigger one or built out a segment of a company from the insideExperience with healthcare, aesthetic medicine, or professional services clientsBackground at a small agency (under 15 people) where you wore several hatsNortheast Ohio based, or a genuine connection to the market
Tools you’d be working inYou don’t need every one of these on day one, but you should recognize most of them and be genuinely fluent in a few: WordPress, Asana, Google Analytics, Google Search Console, Google Ads, Meta Ads Manager, an SEO platform such as Ahrefs or Semrush, and AI tools like Claude for reporting and analysis. If your website experience is entirely on a different platform, be upfront about it. WordPress is where most of our client work lives.
Key Skills & Abilities
Client leadership: running a room, managing expectations, delivering hard news without losing the relationshipPerformance judgment: enough depth across SEO, paid, and web to make calls about what to do next and defend themContractor management: scoping, quality review, and accountability without micromanagementProcess design: turning ad hoc work into documented, repeatable systemsWordPress capability: confident inside a site, including pages, plugins, and basic troubleshooting, plus knowing when to escalateCommercial awareness: understanding the relationship between what a client pays, what we spend, and whether the account worksPrioritization: deciding what matters this week across the portfolio and being right most of the timeWritten clarity: reports, recaps, and emails that clients actually read and understandIndependent judgment: making the call when the founder isn’t available, and being comfortable owning itWhat We OfferCompensation: $75,000 to $95,000 base, depending on experience, with a performance bonus tied to client retention and portfolio growthSchedule: full-time, with flexible hours. We care when the work ships, not when you’re at a deskLocation: Remote, US based, Eastern hours. Regular time with the founder, otherwise work where you work bestTime off: three weeks PTO plus holidays, and we mean it. This is a company that’s learning to run without any one person being indispensableGrowth: this is the first senior hire on the client services side. The person who builds this function well will be the one building the team that comes after it, on both the account side and the specialist sideAutonomy: you will not be managed closely. You’ll be given the portfolio, the contractor bench, the tools, and the outcomes we’re accountable for
How to Apply
Applications are only accepted through our website. There are two steps, and both are required:Complete the application form at our websiteRecord your VideoAsk responses. After you submit the form, you’ll be sent a short set of video questions. Answer them from wherever you are. No production value needed, just you talking.


Client Services Lead (Marketing Firm, Remote)

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