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The Team

We started with two people, one shared dream and a lot of coffee. Just look where we are now!

  • Myles Anderson Myles Anderson

    Founder & CEO

    Brighton, UK

    Myles loves working with small business owners and local SEOs. He's enthused by their passion and commitment as it makes every day challenging and rewarding.
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  • Ed Eliot

    Founder & CTO

    Brighton, UK

    Ed oversees technical operations. He built our first two tools and the basics of our admin panel. Ed brings 15 years of development experience to BrightLocal.
  • alison mcsorley Alison McSorley

    Operations Manager

    Brighton, UK

    Alison ensures that BrightLocal runs smoothly behind the scenes, with the management of all billing and invoicing.
  • usman barki Usman Barki

    Project Manager

    Brighton, UK

    Usman is a key member of our project manager team. He leads product & project management on Citation & NAP products. His eye for detail & communication skills make him perfect for this demanding role.
  • Vicky Chandler Vicky Chandler

    Head of Customer Success

    Brighton, UK

    Vicky heads up our Customer Success Team, improving all of our systems and processes, ensuring we are able to fully support all of our customers.
  • Helen Barnes

    Customer Success Project Manager

    Brighton, UK

    Helen helps onboard New Clients and manages customized enterprise campaigns. She also monitors feedback of BrightLocal to ensure a high level of service.
  • Ian Lloyd Ian Lloyd

    Customer Success Executive

    Brighton, UK

  • Mathew Coghlan

    Head of Business Development

    Brighton, UK

    Matt runs our Business Development team. Having worked in SEO since 2012, Matt’s BrightLocal journey began as a BrightLocal customer whilst working at a digital marketing agency.
  • BrightLocal_John Jon Rana

    Enterprise Business Development

    Brighton, UK

    Jon helps look after new customers coming into the platform, helping to educate them and getting them setup to use the service to its full potential.
  • Andreas Georgiades

    Enterprise Business Development

    Brighton, UK

    Andreas loves growing our relationships with new and existing clients, helping them get the most out of the BrightLocal platform.
  • Harry Richardson

    Sales Support

    Brighton, UK

    Don't let his baby face fool you, Harry has a rich background in Sales Support and works closely with the business development team to help educate our enterprise partners on the platform.
  • Mike Wilson Mike Wilson

    Customer Success Agent

    Brighton, UK

    What Mike doesn't know about BrightLocal probably isn't worth knowing! He's on hand to help all our US & Canadian customers with their questions. Find him on live chat or on a Live Demo.
    Book yourself in for a Live Demo today.
  • John Forth

    Digital Marketing Manager

    Brighton, UK

    John drives traffic to BrightLocal.com through search, social and display advertising as well as overseeing and implementing our conversion optimisation and tech SEO strategies.
  • BrightLocal_Chris Chris Sheward

    Marketing Executive

    Brighton, UK

    Chris works across marketing, looking after our social and email footprints while also ensuring the BrightLocal site is properly optimized for search.
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  • Jamie Pitman

    Head of Content

    Brighton, UK

    Jamie heads up BrightLocal's content team, ensuring we produce insightful articles, research and resources that enable businesses and SEOs to get even better results in local search.
  • BrightLocal_Rosie Rosie Murphy

    Research & Content Manager

    Brighton, UK

    Rosie manages BrightLocal's delivery of research and survey pieces. She heads up data-driven content such as regular polls, webinars and whitepapers, including the Local Consumer Review Survey.
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  • Dougal Crowder Dougal Crowder

    Designer

    Brighton, UK

    Dougal is our in-house designer, helping us to keep the BrightLocal website & application looking great & evolving with the times.
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  • Christian Lawrence

    UX Designer

    Brighton, UK

  • Iurii Pochtar

    Project Delivery Manager

    Kyiv, Ukraine

    Iurii is a member of our project manager team. He takes care of using best practices for development teams located in Ukraine.
  • Catherine O'Sullivan

    Operations & Finance Executive

    Brighton, UK

    Cat’s job contains a little of everything, she makes sure the Brighton office runs smoothly while also assisting the Operations Manager with a variety of finance and billing tasks.

  • lauren thomasson Lauren Thomasson

    Product Expert & Demo Lead

    Texas, USA

    Lauren is the queen of 'live demos'! She's brilliant at walking our customers through our tools & reports so they get the best possible start on BrightLocal.
    Book yourself in for a Live Demo today.
  • BRAD Brad Franklin

    Customer Success Agent

    Apple Valley, CA

    Brad has more than 10 years of experience in digital marketing, with a major focus on local search since 2010 and is a valued member of our customer success team.
  • Renier Alfeche Renier Alfeche

    Head of Submissions

    Philippines

    Renier heads up our 40-man Citation team in the Philippines. He joined BrightLocal in 2009 and has been a huge part of our growth & success.
  • Joseph Jacinto Joseph Jacinto

    Lead Submissions Manager

    Philippines

    Joe oversees our citation submissions. He manages our ever-growing team and ensures the speedy distribution of tasks and the in-depth QA tests which all completed campaigns must pass.
  • Dmytro Vovk Dmytro Vovk

    Head of Infrastructure

    Kyiv, Ukraine

    Dmitry leads our Kiev team. He is an extremely knowledgeable and skilled developer with over 15 years of front-end and back-end development experience.
  • Sergey Mudrik

    Systems Engineer

    Kyiv, Ukraine

  • Dmitry Maltsev

    Development Manager

    Kyiv, Ukraine

    With over 10 years of diverse development experience, Dmitry brings fresh skills and perspectives to the team.
  • Serioga Ivasenko Serioga Ivasenko

    Team Lead

    Kyiv, Ukraine

    Serioga is a very experienced developer and leads one of our development teams. He has responsibility for a number of core services which form the backbone of BrightLocal.
  • Anastasiia Rybalova Anastasiia Rybalova

    Team Lead

    Kyiv, Ukraine

    Anastasiia is a back-end developer who focuses on different BrightLocal services, especially subscriptions and payments.
  • Alexandr Oliinyk Alexandr Oliinyk

    Team Lead

    Kyiv, Ukraine

    Alex is a thoroughbred developer who combines smart thinking with a great work ethic. We can throw anything at Alex and know that he'll do a great job.
  • Ivan Prokopenko

    Developer

    Kyiv, Ukraine

    Ivan is a leading light in our development team. He combines high skill level with fresh thinking & a positive attitude. He also has great hair.
  • Alexander Narozhny Alexander Narozhny

    Developer

    Kyiv, Ukraine

    Alex focuses on our Citation & NAP services/APIs. He helps ensure the data accuracy of these services & the rollout to new countries.
  • Vitalii Harbulinskii

    Infrastructure Engineer

    Kyiv, Ukraine

    Vitalii is a key member of our infrastructure team. He also works with NAP and Citations services.
  • Anton Zelenin

    Developer

    Kyiv, Ukraine

  • Vitaliij Dubenyuk

    Developer

    Kyiv, Ukraine

  • Alex Maslakov Alex Maslakov

    Front-End Lead

    Kyiv, Ukraine

    Alex is a front-end developer who works with the UX/UI of internal tools.
  • Yevhen Kutniak

    Front-End Developer

    Kyiv, Ukraine

    Yevhen is a front-end developer who helps BrightLocal to improve the interfaces of internal tools.
  • Kseniia Sevostianova

    Front-End Developer

    Kyiv, Ukraine

    Kseniia is a skilled front-end developer with good understanding of the user mindset.
  • Yuriy PIddubnyak

    Front-End Developer

    Kyiv, Ukraine

    Yura is our front-end developer. He deals with UX/UI and has strong marketing background.
  • Vitalii Nalyvaiko

    Front-End Developer

    Kyiv, Ukraine

  • Alina Sharipova

    QA Lead

    Kyiv, Ukraine

    Alina is a certified QA engineer who manages and performs testing processes through all steps of Software Development Life Cycle to ensure that all features are high quality and meet requirements.
  • Juliya Gorokhova Juliya Gorokhova

    QA Specialist

    Kyiv, Ukraine

    Juliya is a highly skilled QA engineer. She manages our manual & automated testing processes which ensures the ongoing quality of the BrightLocal app.
  • Tatyana Ziva

    QA Specialist

    Kyiv, Ukraine

    Tatyana is a skilled QA engineer, who manages quality of BrightLocal products on all steps of Software Development Life Cycle.
  • Daria Tatarina

    QA Specialist

    Kyiv, Ukraine

    Daria is a highly qualified QA engineer who creates, implements and improves QA procedures for our products. She is also responsible for defining, updating and executing test cases.

  • Artem Hladenko

    Automation QA

    Kyiv, Ukraine

  • Valentyna Basiuk

    Junior QA Specialist

    Kyiv, Ukraine

  • Alyona Mytrofanova

    Office Manager

    Kyiv, Ukraine

Our Local Citation Specialists

We have 65 agents & 20 managers in our Citation submission team. Based in the BrightLocal office in Mindanao, Philippines, the team are dedicated to delivering high quality citation campaigns each month. These superstar citation agents and managers complete over 2,000 campaigns, delivering over 60,000 submissions for our customers every month.

Jobs

Customer Success Executive

Attendence: Full-Time
Location: Brighton
Salary: £20,000 - £23,000 + Bonus

Working as part of our Customer Success Team in our friendly Brighton office (5 minute walk from Brighton station) You will be primarily responsible for supporting our customers via email and live chat, plus rolling your sleeves up and assisting the Customer Experience Manager, and Head of Customer Success in shaping and implementing the strategies to define and achieve exceptional customer service at all levels

You will receive extensive training on SEO, marketing and the BrightLocal platform. You will use this knowledge to assist customers who contact us via live chat and email, impressing them with your knowledge and educating them about the benefits of BrightLocal.

Liaising with your colleagues in the Philippines, Kiev & USA, your internal relationships are as important as external ones and you’ll need to be a team-player and a great communicator to be successful in this role.

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Content and Community Executive

Attendence: Full-Time
Location: Brighton
Salary: £22,000 - £25,000 + Bonus

This is a new role in our growing digital marketing team. We are looking for a versatile, skilled and enthusiastic marketer with a passion for content, design and social media/ community management.

BrightLocal is a marketing-driven business with 90% of leads coming through inbound marketing. Effective marketing is essential to our growth and this role is integral to our continued success and expansion. We are well-known for our first-class research pieces and educational content, as well as our ability to communicate important industry news in a timely and insightful fashion.

You will play a key role in supporting our content team to help plan and produce content that delights our users and widens our audience. You will help to source, proofread and publish content from our expert contributors.

You will use your design skills to enhance our content and research pieces, making them visually creative, engaging and suitable for various types of distribution (e.g. email, social media)

You will flex your social muscles by taking ownership of our social accounts to engage new and existing customers. You will be active on all relevant forums, answering questions and pushing BrightLocal’s position as a thought leader in the local search industry.

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Locations

Brighton Pier

Brighton, UK

BrightLocal HQ is located in Brighton, UK. This is the nerve center of our operation and where the big decisions get made.

BrightLocal
86, Gloucester Road
Brighton
East Sussex
BN1 4AP

Kyiv, UA

Kyiv houses the BrightLocal development team. Kyiv (or Kiev) is the capital and largest city of Ukraine and where the 'heavy-lifting' work gets done!

BrightLocal
8 Bolsunovska street
Kyiv
Ukraine

Valencia, PH

Valencia City is where our Citation team are located. Our modern office is centrally located with super-fast broadband and houses a dedicated team of citation experts.

Company History

BrightLocal was founded in 2009 by Ed Eliot and Myles Anderson.

Having spent 10+ years working for large media and internet businesses we wanted a change and relished the chance to use our knowledge to help local businesses grow through effective use of search marketing.

BrightLocal started out as a search agency providing local search services to a range of local businesses in and around London (UK). However, we soon ran into issues as we tried to grow the business and take on more customers.

We felt swamped by the scale of daily tasks facing our team. We needed to automate repetitive tasks such as running audits, tracking rankings, identifying citations, submitting to local directories, and monitoring reviews. We looked around to find specialist tools to help us but we couldn’t find any. Sure, there were lots of general SEO tools but none which focused on the needs of digital marketing agencies and local businesses.

So we decided to build them for ourselves. Then we showed them to a number of friendly SEOs in our network and the response was unanimous: “awesome…can i use them too!”

And so the BrightLocal toolset was born.

Since then we have grown to 120 dedicated staff in four countries, serving more than 50,000 amazing customers world-wide.

And the journey has only just started.

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