Company Description
About SEEK
At SEEK, we serve a noble purpose: to help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and to help organisations succeed.
By joining us, you’ll be part of a multi-national technology business that is far-reaching with a start-up working culture that focuses on a set of collaborative values and appreciates dynamic cultures. SEEK is a place where potential meets possibility – it’s where your career aspiration and our purpose can make great things happen.
Why join us?
Be part of a multi-national tech company with strong core values to help us solve complex challenges for our customers while building a flexible, exciting career – one that could take you anywhere.
We’re looking for people who thrive in dynamic teams and enjoy tackling regular new challenges in a large-scale, modern, and agile environment. As one of Asia Pacific’s largest tech companies, you’ll contribute to multi-lingual systems, solving high-impact problems to the benefit of millions of people within the region.
Be part of a fast-growing company with a strong culture and clear purpose, innovation and strong investment in responsible AI. SEEK offers you the opportunity to be involved in impactful work and be part of a great team. Expect a great investment in your career development with access to workshops, conferences and courses while you work alongside seasoned experts.
Job Description
About the role
As Principal SEO Specialist, you'll define and execute SEO strategy for Jora's innovative job search platform, with Jora being one of the key brands operated within SEEK's portfolio. You'll directly contribute to SEEK Group's mission of delivering relevant job search experiences to millions of candidates across 25 countries. Reporting to the Head of SEO with dotted line to Head of Discovery Experience of Jora, you'll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including developers, product managers, and marketing while working alongside SEEK's broader SEO team.
Responsibilities
- Define strategic direction and roadmap for Jora's SEO, driving endorsement of SEO imperatives at team, leadership, and executive levels
- Act as driving force behind SEO initiative delivery through collaboration with cross-functional teams and key stakeholders
- Monitor and report on SEO performance with actionable insights, designing data-driven testing frameworks to validate tactical hypotheses
- Provide technical SEO guidance for new product development and existing site optimization, focusing on accessibility, security, mobile, and site speed
- Upskill developers, QA specialists, and product managers on SEO best practices to integrate SEO performance into routine workflows
- Stay current with emerging SEO technologies and trends, applying them strategically to maintain competitive advantage
- Collaborate with marketing on SEM strategies and content campaign technical delivery for maximum search visibility
Qualifications
Skills and experience
- 5+ years direct experience in technical SEO solutions within enterprise-level marketplace or ecommerce environments
- 5+ years exposure to foundational concepts in full-stack web development, design, hosting, and application development
- Strong analytical capabilities with demonstrated experience analyzing large datasets, SQL proficiency, and dashboard creation skills
- Technical expertise to identify and resolve web technology performance issues (React, JS, Node) and diagnose site architecture problems
- Excellent communication and influencing skills with ability to engage diverse stakeholders and present executive-ready narratives
- Understand Cloud-based ingress solutions such as Cloudflare, edge-compute and how this can impact and benefit SEO
- Fundamental scripting skills in languages such as Python or R, with hands-on experience using notebooks for data exploration and analysis
Additional Information
Perks and benefits
At SEEK we offer:
- Professional development sessions with industry leading guest speakers
- Support of flexible working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role
- SEEK is committed to preparing for the impacts of climate change and the transition to a low-carbon future, and manages its environmental impacts including on climate change.
- Paid and unpaid leave benefits including Personal Flexi Days as well as the opportunity to purchase additional leave
- The opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year
At SEEK, we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.
We know teams with diverse ideas, experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such, we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences, especially as they relate to gender, sexual identity, culture, faith, disability and life stages. If you have the skills, curiosity and an adaptable mindset but don't meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement, please still get in touch with us. Should you require any specific support or adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond, please advise us and we will be happy to assist.
For this role, only those with eligible right to work will be considered.
SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.
