Senior Manager Technical Seo (Remote)

JoVE (www.jove.com) is a USA-based company that produces video solutions with the mission of advancing scientific research and education. Our institutional clients comprise over 1,000 universities, colleges, and biopharma companies, including leaders like Harvard, MIT, Yale, and Stanford. As a rapidly growing company with offices in the USA, UK, Australia, and India, servicing clients in over 60 countries, we are seeking talented individuals to join our company.

Role

JoVE is seeking a Senior Manager, Technical SEO to oversee the technical aspects of SEO for all of JoVE’s products and domains. As the Sr. SEO Manager, you will collaborate with various departments to develop and implement strategies that boost online visibility and rankings by conducting crawling audits, refining robots and canonical directives, improving page and video indexing, optimizing sitemap structures, enhancing internal linking, and improving website architecture.

Responsibilities

• Develop a holistic SEO strategy to grow JoVE’s website indexation and align with the company’s overall goals and priorities; create the SEO technical roadmap, and monitor organic search traffic performance to ensure optimal website health.
• Proactively test, analyze, and implement technical SEO changes to JoVE product domains to ensure they are structurally optimized for search engines. This includes verifying that URLs, canonicals, and internal links are functioning correctly and making the necessary adjustments to improve visibility on major search engines (e.g., Google, and Google Scholar).
• Conduct regular technical website audits using Screaming Frog, Ahrefs, SEM Rush, Google Search Console, and Google Analytics to identify areas for improvement and implement necessary changes. Provide technical SEO documentation and reports.
• Contribute SEO expertise to the overall website strategy and collaborate with other departments within JoVE, such as Marketing, Sales, Technology, and Product to ensure that the overall information architecture drives relevant traffic by meeting search intent.
• Ensure that all SEO optimizations can be effectively implemented within WordPress.
• Collaborate with the Engineering team to implement SEO-friendly technical changes, including conducting tests and providing clear directives on applying specific optimization techniques for a global website such as optimizing hreflang tags, correcting Core Web Vitals issues, and adding appropriate schema for videos and text articles.
• Stay ahead of the newest SEO Industry Trends and algorithm changes, and follow Google technical guidelines, strategies, techniques, and best search engine practices to improve our SEO continuously.
• Discover link opportunities through competitive backlink research via tools such as Majestic SEO, Ahrefs, Open Site Explorer, and SEM Rush.
• Monitor and report on key performance indicators, including data related to page and video indexing, search rankings, impressions, clicks, as well as status indicators such as canonical issues, 404 errors, backlinks, and SERP click-through rates.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of hands-on experience with technical SEO.
• 3+ years of experience as a Senior SEO Technical Lead or a senior SEO Manager working with large amounts of traffic, with a proven track record of scaling and resolving SEO technical issues on a website.
• High level of attention to detail and extreme focus on quality of results (essential).
• Experience migrating websites and CMS.
• Strong technical SEO knowledge and the ability to translate complex technical topics for a non-technical audience.
• Experience analyzing data, finding insights, and presenting findings to internal and/or external stakeholders including at the executive level.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to drive meaningful actions from large data sets.
• Experience with SEO and website analytics tools (e.g. Google Analytics, SEMRush, Ahrefs, Google Search Console, Lighthouse, Pagespeed Insight, etc.).
• Demonstrated ability to keep current with trends and technological advancements in SEO, UI/UX, Google algorithm updates, etc.
• Experience with Ed-Tech, Journal, and Research market-specific search engines such as Google Scholar, Google Books, Web of Science, Scopus, Paperpile, etc.
• Ability to manage time and organize projects
• Experience interacting with customers, senior executives, and business leaders.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and follow through to ensure timely completion.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to consult on projects and present information effectively.
• Knowledge of conversion optimization principles and techniques.
• Proficiency in HTML is required. Proficiency in Python, JavaScript, CSS, or SQL is a plus.

Why Join JoVE?

• When working with JoVE, you can expect salary and benefit package competitively placed within the local market
• You will make a direct impact in accelerating science research and in improving student learning in science education
• Opportunity to work with global teams and in an environment that promotes innovation and collaboration
• Our strong promotion from within culture draws a clear path to advance your career with us