Growth Plays

Location

USA, Canada, Remote SEO Jobs, Remote USA, Remote Can

Salary

75-105K USD

Experience

3-5 yrs

Job Type

Full Time

Date Posted

October 8, 2024

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The Basics + Benefits:

• Growth Plays is hiring two technical SEO managers with 4+ years of experience based in the US or Canada.
• This role is ideal for someone passionate about technical SEO with excellent people, communication, process, and project management skills.
• You are extremely detail oriented and can QA your own work so it is error free, easy to understand, and straightforward to implement.
• You will work closely with Growth Plays account managers and the SEO team lead to ensure that all technical deliverables and ad hoc technical requests are sent on time and to specification.
• Salary range: $75-105K per year DOE, plus we cover home internet, a coworking space, and all necessary office equipment.
• Matching 401K (after 6 months, up to 4%)
• Full time role, with health, vision + dental benefits (where 90% of the base plan is covered by us, and 40% of health insurance is covered for your dependents) with FSA and HSA options.
• 3 weeks PTO
  • That’s 15 days vacation of your choosing, and then we shut down fully the last week of the year.
• 40 dollar a month stipend for coffee and snacks.

Your Background & Skill Set:

• You are an experienced agency-side SEO professional with 4+ years of in the weeds experience auditing websites and keeping them technically performant over time.
  • In house experience is a major plus, but agency or professional services experience is a requirement.
• You have a proven track record. We will want detailed examples of past work where you explain exactly what you did to help grow or recover traffic through technical SEO.
• In-depth knowledge of all things technical SEO (crawling, rendering, indexation, site speed, schema, etc) as well as on-page optimization, and links (but you will not do any link building or content strategy in this role).
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• You are deadline-conscious, proactive, and able to communicate effectively with customers and team mates on all things technical SEO.
  • To succeed in this role, you will need to have strong project and time management skills.
  • The ideal candidate is someone who is organized and loves to create and maintain process.
• You have experience working with sites running on Webflow and WordPress, as well as headless CMSs using React-based frameworks (Sanity, Contentful, Storyblok, etc).
• You are comfortable writing and QA’ing redirect rules that impact hundreds/thousands of pages.
• You are deeply experienced in Google Sheets.
  • Bonus points for being able to use Apps Script to automate aspects of your work.
• You have supported domain and CMS migrations for sites with several thousand pages.
• You regularly use GA4, GSC, and Looker Data Studio.
  • Advanced Google Tag Manager experience is not a requirement, but a big plus.
• You are deeply experienced with using Ahrefs or SEMrush to audit and monitoring customer websites on a regular basis, and can use Screaming Frog or SiteBulb (or something similar) for one off analysis.
• You know how to ask the right questions and can pull the relevant data to get context on an issue in order to make recommendations based on business impact.
• You can identify and diagnose complex technical issues and explain why and how to remedy the issue to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Basic ability to work with HTML, CSS, and JS as it relates to SEO.
• Basic understanding of and ability to read/write regular expressions.
• You operate with urgency.

The Role:

• You will own audits, domain and CMS migrations, and reporting build outs.
• You will be tapped by account managers when technical SEO arise that are complex and need further investigation.
• At times, you will need to attend client calls to go over technical SEO issues and provide well thought out and easy to implement solutions.
• For some accounts, you will be in their Jira instance, creating tickets and monitoring the resolution of those tickets with their web teams.
• You will be aware of technical site health for all accounts you are assigned to (using Ahrefs), and reach out to account managers when severe SEO issues go live.

Success After 90 Days Looks Like…

• By Day 30, you will have fully immersed yourself in our clients, processes, software stack, and deliverables.
• By Day 60, you will be owning the monitoring, auditing and reporting build out functions.
• By Day 90, you will be up and running at full capacity, owning all things technical SEO and providing proactive recommendations to clients and finding ways to improve our standard workflows and services.

Our Values:

• Focus: we prioritize deep work, zero in on the details, and get things right.
• Autonomy & Velocity: we take initiative, are decisive, and move with urgency and purpose.
• Ownership: we own our commits and do what we say we will do.
• Raise the bar: we strive for excellence, but we know we can always improve.
• Balance: we champion hard work, but also time to recharge. Both are essential.

Expectations:

• You might get pinged on Tuesday at 7:10am, but you aren’t expected to be online all the time. No one produces 8 hours straight a day.
• We ask for a same day turn around time with non-urgent emails and messages.
• Flexible working hours – with the expectation of at least 40 hours of meaningful work a week.
• There is one annual company retreat in late Q2/early Q3 – location TBD.
• You must be able to remain stationary for extended periods, must be able to observe and interpret written and/or verbal communication, must have reliable internet access, and a professional background to take virtual calls on camera from.

Interview Process:

• 30 minute call screening.
• Reference checks with former managers and/or skip level managers.
• 4 hour paid assessment that will involve putting together sample deliverables and auditing a website.
• 30 minute assessment review.
• Two 30 minute interviews with department leads.

About Growth Plays:

• We are a team of 8 FTEs + a few contractors thrown in the mix with a track record for creating wins for our customer base.
• We develop SEO-backed content strategies and technical solutions that enable companies like LaunchDarkly, Heap, Calendly, Cortex, Lattice, and many others, to map their buyer journey to content and keywords and tie everything to the funnel.
• Equal opportunity employer.

Next Steps:

Please email careers@growthplays.com with your resume, links to any relevant professional social media, samples of your work you can share, and:

• An explanation of what interests you about the role.
• Why you are a good fit.
• Why you are looking for a new role.
• Two examples of your technical SEO work that achieved ROI for your client or employer (please be as specific as possible and describe exactly how you contributed to these two initiatives).

Important:

• Please do not reach out to Growth Plays team members on social media about this job, to apply please follow the instructions above.
• Please do not use AI to write your application. It may result in you being blocked from submitting resumes to Growth Plays in the future.

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