Technical SEO Specialist

Company Description

About Shopify

Opportunity is not evenly distributed. Shopify puts independence within reach for anyone with a dream to start a business. Since 2006, we’ve grown to over 10,000 employees and generated over $500 billion in sales for millions of merchants in 175 countries. Every 28 seconds, an entrepreneur on Shopify makes their first sale.

This is life-defining work that directly impacts people’s lives as much as it transforms your own. This is putting the power of the few in the hands of the many, is a future with more voices rather than fewer, and is creating more choices instead of an elite option.

About you

Moving at our pace brings a lot of change, complexity, and ambiguity—and a little bit of chaos. Shopifolk thrive on that and are comfortable being uncomfortable. That means Shopify is not the right place for everyone.

Before you apply, consider if you can:

• Care deeply about what you do and about making commerce better for everyone
• Excel by seeking professional and personal hypergrowth
• Keep up with an unrelenting pace (the week, not the quarter)
• Be resilient and resourceful in face of ambiguity and thrive on (rather than endure) change
• Bring critical thought and opinion — and embrace differences and disagreement to get shit done and move forward
• Work digital-first for your daily work

Job Description

As Technical SEO Specialist at Shopify you will make commerce better for everyone by making products easier to find and increasing organic search traffic to merchant stores.

You'll engage with the most important merchants on the platform providing sound direction, proof of concepts, and/or advice on how to drive more traffic to merchant stores. Working with new and existing merchants, you'll provide in-depth expertise in both long term projects and shorter term engagements.

This role offers the opportunity to work directly with merchants as well as leading the way in shaping the future of the Professional Services (SEO) Team.

Qualifications

Your responsibilities:

• Increase organic traffic to merchant stores through paid engagements
• Help and build a SEO professional service practice
• Provide merchants with best practice advice and direction based on your SEO expertise
• Scale learnings from engagements to make Shopify better for all merchants
• Create thought leadership content to demonstrate expertise 
• Manage stakeholder expectations throughout engagements 
• Provide ad-hoc technical and product feedback to various internal teams
• Engaging with both technical and non-technical merchant stakeholders

SEO specific experience:

• Experience of improving SEO on Shopify stores a must
• Proven track record of increasing organic traffic for e-commerce sites including internationalization and product and content information architecture
• Specialism in on-page and Technical SEO best practices including structured data
• Deep understanding of how search engines discover, crawl, render, and index web pages
• Good understanding of HTML, CSS, JS
• Expert knowledge of crawling tools like Screaming Frog, Deepcrawl/Lumar, OnCrawl, etc.
• Familiarity with SQL and Regex
• Able to perform log file analysis to drive decision making
• Familiarity with web performance and conversion rate optimization practices

Additional Information

Is some of this tech new to you? That’s OK! We know not everyone will come in fully familiar with this stack, and we provide support to learn on the job.

Closing date: Tuesday, May 30th at 11:59PM EDT

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.