Technical SEO Director
Jellyfish Group Ltd, United Kingdom
Job Description
Jellyfish is your digital partner. We support and drive digital transformation by providing the right strategy, tactical delivery, technology and training.
With offices across the globe, we are focused on increasing our network, client base and digital services to the biggest brands on the planet.
We are ‘One Jellyfish’, we know how important it is not just to have the best people in the world working with us, but to also recognize and reward this talent. What’s stopping you from joining our award winning team?
About the Role
We’re looking for a data-driven big-thinker with the ability to turn complex client briefs into successful, performance focussed SEO and Content campaigns. This role is for a capable influencer and visionary who has big-brand experience, and a passion for unlocking organic search potential - particularly through best-in-class technical expertise.
The Technical SEO Director holds a prominent position within Jellyfish and is a vastly experienced professional with a high standard of commercial acumen, strategic excellence, technical experience within organic search, and exemplary communication skills.
You will have responsibility for a portfolio of prestigious clients and manage teams of SEO specialists, while effectively delivering advanced SEO strategies that meet/exceed client expectations and KPIs. It will be your responsibility to constantly re-evaluate and reimagine the organic search solutions provided to your clients - remaining competitive and aligned with the needs of an ever-changing digital landscape.
You will be at the heart of the Jellyfish new business effort within the UK and EMEA, and will be highly capable in scaling-up conversations to C-suite client stakeholders while still maintaining granular hands-on tactical knowledge to contribute to the management, direction, and mentorship of day-to-day SEO practitioners.
You will also be part of a senior team that is responsible for optimising how the SEO department functions, by developing automated ways of working to make ease of laborious tasks.
If you have a proven track record of delivering meaningful business outcomes through innovative and cutting-edge SEO activity, we want to hear from you!
Desired skill sets:
- The ability to see a website through the eyes of a search engine, understanding the journey and issues that can occur from the crawl, render and ranking of webpages
- You’ll hold the ability to discuss technical topics with solution architects about their technology choices
- Thorough understanding of old and new web technologies including nuances of technology stacks and enterprise level SaSS solutions
- A solid understanding of web infrastructure and knowledge of platforms such as AWS, GCP, Akamai or CloudFlare
- Thorough understand of JavaScript and how modern application architectures can impact SEO
- Scripting abilities within JavaScript (app scripts) to pull data from APIs to produce new workflows for the SEO team
- An intermediate level of Python, data manipulations packages and ML libraries to develop new ways of working to the SEO team
- Familiarity with GCP and AWS specifically geared around databases and data processing through query languages
- Thorough understanding of crawler software packages including Screaming Frog, Botify, Oncrawl and usage of Beautiful Soup for web scraping
- You’ll be an expert at all things web performance related, knowing how to audit and diagnose performance related issues using server-side and client-side auditing tools
Responsibilities:
- Work closely alongside Jellyfish’s C-Suite and VP-level Earned Media, SEO and Content leaders to demonstrate growth in regional clients, prospecting and winning new business
- Provide strategic direction and implementation of Jellyfish’s SEO solutions, with a key focus on technical, content, offsite and mobile tactics
- Set and manage KPIs and understand the impact this has on client organisations, and on Jellyfish
- Quality assurance on the projects that you are accountable for
- Oversee accurate resource planning, scheduling and time tracking for your respective team
- Work closely with other earned, owned and paid media departments (Analytics, Social, Display, PPC, Brand Planning, Strategy, etc.) to continually deliver successful integrated digital campaigns
- Work closely with counterparts in other regions to ensure consistency of our global solution, to share successes, and to resolve challenges
- Support in building, managing and mentoring teams
- Support and contribute to the ongoing evolution and development of the Jellyfish SEO product/solution
Requirements
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