SEO Consultant

About Shopify

Opportunity is not evenly distributed. Shopify puts independence within reach for anyone with a dream to start a business. We propel entrepreneurs and enterprises to scale the heights of their potential. Since 2006, we’ve grown to over 8,300 employees and generated over $1 trillion in sales for millions of merchants in 175 countries.

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
• Embrace differences and disagreement to get shit done and move forward
• Work digital-first for your daily work

About the role

Shopify’s mission is to make commerce better for everyone.  A Technical Architect (SEO) makes commerce better for everyone by making products easier to find and increasing organic search traffic to merchant stores.

Technical Architects have deep specialization in SEO. They 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, Technical Architects 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 shaping the future of the Professional Services (SEO) Team.

The Technical Architect role includes partnering with several internal teams to craft, create, and communicate solutions for merchants.

Your Responsibilities:

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

SEO Specific Experience:

• 3 years experience of increasing organic traffic for ecommerce sites

• Experience of improving SEO on Shopify stores
• Specialism in Technical SEO, On-Page and SEO Content best practices
• Deep understanding of how search engines discover, crawl, render, and index web pages
• Expert knowledge of tools like Google Search Console, Screaming Frog, SEMRush,Ahrefs etc.
• Good understanding of HTML, CSS, JS
• Familiarity with SQL and Regex
• Able to perform log file analysis to drive decision making
• Familiarity with web performance and conversion rate optimization practices