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Reporting to the VP Marketing, the Director of SEO is responsible for driving the company’s search engine optimization strategy and practice. You will develop creative strategies that increase Minted’s traffic and revenue from organic search. We’re seeking a creative, dynamic, and detail-obsessed SEO expert. You will lead a team of scrappy SEOs, formulate and drive our on-site and off-site SEO strategy, and act as the chief SEO advocate and explainer inside the company, educating engineers, PMs, designers, and marketers, alike in order to make Minted a world-class SEO company. You will build Minted’s SEO strategy across our burgeoning set of new ecommerce verticals, product categories, proprietary content, and user community.
About the Company: Minted is a design marketplace connecting consumers with the world’s best artists to create something one-of-a-kind. Combining community with commerce, Minted was founded by a successful serial entrepreneur and has been featured on the Today Show, Wall Street Journal, InStyle, Real Simple, Martha Stewart Weddings, Daily Candy, TechCrunch, and many other national media outlets. We come from Google, Amazon, Microsoft, eBay, Yahoo, Goldman Sachs and numerous disruptive startups. This is a great opportunity to learn from a stellar executive team and work on a world-changing product, all supported by a proven business model.
Responsibilities:
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Formulate creative on-site and off-site strategies that build sustainable, scalable, white hat competitive advantages for Minted in SEO
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Bring industry best practices into the organization by keeping abreast of the latest ideas in SEO and translating them into internal processes and strategies
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Act as the chief SEO evangelist inside the company, creating internal training programs and processes that ensure that good SEO decisions are made throughout the organization
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Lead an SEO team that serves Minted’s multi-vertical businesses, helping each of your team members adapt your strategy to the needs of their particular category
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Design processes and train your team to take on SEO modeling, forecasting, analytics, research, site optimization, and reporting practices
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Own and manage traffic and revenue goals from organic search for the company as a whole and for each of our major businesses
Skills and Experience:
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Bachelor’s degree with a high GPA
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8+ years of online marketing and/or technical experience
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5+ years of SEO experience required, SEO experience within ecommerce is a plus
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Extremely strong technical understanding of SEO, including relevant topics in website architecture, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML
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Knowledge of SQL is a plus
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Very strong analytical skills, including building complex Excel models
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Clear verbal and written communicator
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People management experience is a plus
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Teaching, coaching, or training experience is a plus
