Position: Director of Technical SEO
Company: Murano Software
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

**Job Duties**
The Technical SEO team works within the SEO Group alongside other SEO team members, product, technology, and business leaders to provide technical website recommendations that will improve user experience and organic traffic. These recommendations will be derived from insight from site crawls, investigations at the page level, feedback from Google Search Console, and more. And a critical responsibility of the Director of Technical SEO is to identify how to automate the development of these insights across our portfolio of sites.

This Director can sit remote or in any of our several offices. 

**Responsibilities**
- Partner with business leaders to drive the right traffic which increases revenue
- Develop and implement technical SEO best practices, guiding product and technology teams to be proactive in site development
- Identify workflows & analyses that can be automated, such as Core Web Vitals monitoring, internal linking, etc.
- Deploy automated site crawlers (e.g. Screaming Frog) and work with Data Sciences team to build cloud crawling which can run continuously for site changes, setting off automatic alerts when issues arise
- Identify technical SEO health metrics for dashboarding to scale across many domains and automate notification systems
- Lead analysis to identify new opportunities on a website’s technical construction which will enable Google to crawl it better
- Keep up with new developments and technical improvements for Page Experience that will benefit SEO growth
- Work closely with leaders of developer and QA teams participating in development cycles where SEO is underway
- Establish processes for technical audits of our sites, with periodic review
- Stay up to date with the latest technical algorithm components and establish priorities for including updates in sprints
- Review key competitors web page construction and identify new opportunities to improve our own
- Review information architecture on our sites and recommend improvements
- Leverage tools like Page Speed Insights, Lighthouse, Schema Validator to ensure our sites are world-class, benchmarked against competitors.
- Educate engineering and QA colleagues on SEO best practices throughout projects
- Design A/B tests which are aimed at increasing SEO traffic
- Use data and analytics to make data-driven decisions
- Work with management to prioritize business and information needs

**Requirement**
- Education in computer science, engineering, mathematics
- Programming skills, particularly with scripting languages for designing automation
- HTML with a focus on key SEO elements such as Canonicals, Schema implementation, Meta Robots instructions, etc.
- Working knowledge of javascript and/or CSS 
- Project Management experience, plus for leading technical teams
- Intermediate Excel skills or better
- 5+ years of experience in SEO driving traffic growth
- 3+ years of experience managing team members
- A strong analytical and quantitative mind, with demonstrated results in SEO.
- A great communicator, boiling complex concepts down into clear, actionable instructions.
- A true collaborator, working with multiple stakeholders across teams to educate, influence, and execute.
- Willingness to dive in and research a problem from multiple points of view, provide supported conclusions, and lay out a clear go-forward game plan.

**NOTES:**
Required to overlap at least 6 hours with US PST or EST working hours