Ellen Blacow

Head of Design

United Kingdom10 yrs 2 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Over seven years of experience in SEO leadership.
  • Expert in managing cross-functional teams in complex environments.
  • Proven track record of driving measurable revenue growth.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Digital Marketing expert with a focus on SEO strategies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Seo

Other Skills

link buildingSEO copywritingclient reportingtechnical auditsTeam LeadershipCommunicationTeamwork

About

Senior SEO leader with over seven years’ experience scaling global operations across marketplaces, fintech, travel and B2B technology. Currently leading SEO for Checkatrade where I own the roadmap for traditional and AI-driven search (LLM/GEO) while remaining hands-on with execution. Experienced in managing cross-functional teams and navigating complex regulatory environments (FCA). I balance strategic leadership with a direct, hands-on approach to technical changes and large-scale content roadmaps, ensuring search metrics translate directly into board-level commercial insights and measurable revenue growth.

Experience

10 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 2 mos
Average Tenure
1 mo
Current Experience

Checkatrade

Head of SEO

May 2026Present · 1 mo · London · Hybrid

Bark.com

Senior SEO Manager

Jul 2025Apr 2026 · 9 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · Hybrid

Artefact

2 roles

SEO Director

Promoted

Jun 2024Jul 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo

Senior SEO Manager

Jun 2023Jun 2024 · 1 yr

Collinson

Global SEO Manager

Aug 2022Jun 2023 · 10 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

Rvu

3 roles

Senior SEO Executive

Feb 2022Jul 2022 · 5 mos

Senior Content Marketing Executive

Promoted

Aug 2021Feb 2022 · 6 mos

Content Marketing Executive

May 2020Aug 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

Digital uncut

SEO Outreach Executive

May 2019May 2020 · 1 yr · London, United Kingdom

  • Responsible for all link building for Digital Uncut's clients, including strategy, implementation and reporting.
  • Liaise with clients and produce weekly and monthly reports, reporting on client KPIs, rankings and organic traffic.
  • Conduct link, content and technical audits for clients. Collating reccomendations and implementing where appropriate.
  • Write SEO copy and upload to CMS (confident with both Shopify and WordPress)
  • Monitor our clients' organic visibility and identify new keyword opportunities and quick-wins.
  • Confident using SEO and outreach tools such as Ahrefs, Pitchbox, Google Analytics and Google Search Console.

Amara living ltd

SEO Assistant

Jul 2018May 2019 · 10 mos

  • Amara is a British based international e-commerce site with localised sites for the USA, Australia, France, Germany and the UAE. As an SEO assistant I support the team across content, outreach and technical SEO.
  • Providing keyword, Google trends, and competitor research to aid the SEO and digital marketing strategies.
  • Collaborating with the Editorial, Merchandising and Buying teams to ensure all category and product pages are SEO-optimised.
  • Optimising Amara’s onsite SEO with emphasis on metadata, error codes, redirects, and hreflang tags.
  • Monitoring the site’s organic visibility and identifying keyword and content opportunities using SEMrush, PiDatametrics and Ahrefs.
  • Finding and targeting featured snippet opportunities.
  • Analysing and reporting on SEO projects with Google Search Console and Google Analytics.

Suzhou education association for international exchange, china

English Language Teacher

Oct 2017Jun 2018 · 8 mos · Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

  • Created weekly lesson plans, ensuring students had access to visual, auditory and verbal learning materials.
  • Conducted termly oral exams and produced progress reports to track student performance.
  • Engaged with local academies and teachers to aid in the development of curricula aimed at improving English as a second language.

Action against hunger | acf-uk

Student Fundraiser

Oct 2016Jun 2017 · 8 mos · Southampton, United Kingdom

  • Fundraised £1500 for Action Against Hunger UK during my final year of university.
  • Organised and ran a netball tournament which attracted over 150 students.
  • Increased engagement with the charity’s initiatives across campus by utilising university media outlets, social media accounts and offline methods.
  • Awarded 'Student Fundraiser of the month' for January 2017.

University of southampton

4 roles

Social Media Intern

Jul 2016Jun 2017 · 11 mos

  • Responsible for the maintenance and content of Mission Employable’s Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts.
  • Communicated with internal and external employers wishing to hire Humanities students, and proposed media campaigns to ensure target audiences were reached.
  • Published in The Journal for Educational Innovation, Partnership and Change: Digital Media to ‘Engage the Disengaged’: Reaching out to Humanities Students at the University of Southampton.

Educational Development Officer

Jul 2016Sep 2016 · 2 mos

  • Reviewed and altered the existing content of two employability modules for undergraduate students.
  • Coordinated with academic departments and student bodies across the university to ensure content was both bespoke and relevant.
  • Created promotional materials and a social media campaign.
  • Responsible for minute taking during meetings and circulating amongst staff and relevant students.
  • Involved in a student panel, answering questions about student partnership and digital literacies at the ALT-C Conference at the University of Warwick on September 8th 2016.

Student Mentor

Sep 2015Jun 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Mentored first year students to aid with the transition into university life.
  • Responsible for organising meetings and writing follow-up reports.
  • Liaised with students, mentor officers and faculty members involved in the scheme ensuring solutions were found to any problems that arose.
  • Awarded ‘Mentor of the Year’ in 2015/16 following recommendations from my mentees.

Student Ambassador

Sep 2015May 2016 · 8 mos

Education

University of Southampton

First Class Bachelor’s Degree — Modern History and Politics

Jan 2014Jan 2017

Colchester Sixth Form College

International Baccalaureate

Jan 2012Jan 2014

Thurstable School

Chemistry

Jan 2007Jan 2012

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