SEO Manager

SEO Manager (Chicago)

Chicago, IL or Remote

Hello, We’re Built In

What We’re Up To

We’re building the largest platform for tech professionals globally. Monthly, millions of professionals visit BuiltIn.com from across the world. We’re the only platform they need to stay ahead of tech trends and news, develop their careers and find opportunities at companies they believe in.

Our 1,800 customers include innovative companies of all sizes, from exciting startups to companies in the Fortune 100. To attract our audience of skilled professionals, they trust us to tell the stories of their cultures and share their job opportunities. This helps them hire the industry’s most sought-after professionals locally, nationally and remotely ultimately contributing to the industry’s ability to innovate a better future.

What You’ll Be a Part Of

Working at Built In is the chance to help shape a fast-growing company. Whereas we served eight tech hubs at the start of 2021, we entered 72 new markets across the U.S. by year’s end. Global plans are in the works. With venture funding of $30 million to date, we’re expanding not just our geographic footprint but our products and technology.

With the launch of e-learning opportunities for users, we’ve made Built In even more valuable for the professionals who already trust us with their careers. And as we grow into the leading SaaS product for employer branding, we’re using the latest technologies to serve customers in new, exciting ways and you’ll contribute to that.

You’ll also be a part of changing the lives of professionals like you, ambitious people with a passion for tech and love of learning. As a result, you’ll understand the impact of your work in a deeply personal, especially meaningful way.

We’re looking for an SEO Manager (Chicago)

Built In is seeking a highly-motivated and creative SEO Manager. You will report directly to the Director, SEO as a senior leader on the SEO Team. You will work closely with Editorial, Product, Design, and Engineering to provide strategic insights and tactical direction using SEO to grow Built In’s search traffic and user base across eight dedicated local sites and one national platform. You are someone who loves working collaboratively on a variety of projects and can easily explain complicated concepts to others.

How you’ll contribute

• Own the technical SEO monitoring of all Built In sites, which includes regular site audits, crawl log analysis, tracking core web vitals, and investigating indexation errors
• Work with product and engineering teams to troubleshoot SEO-related issues and ensure best practices are being implemented and utilized
• Build data dashboards to monitor and analyze site performance; research product SEO opportunities
• Use custom SEO tooling to optimize and create new product pages
• Primary focus will be on technical and product SEO, but you will also help support our editorial team with content research and analysis

What you need

• 3+ years SEO experience
• Experience working with e-commerce or similar sites with large, database-driven directories
• Mastery of Google Analytics, Google Search Console, OnCrawl (or similar tool)
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Excellent understanding of SEO concepts and experience finding and diagnosing SEO problems (technical and content) that have produced measurable impact
• Experience working with Drupal and .NET a plus
• Knowledge of content SEO best practices a plus

Impress us even more

• Your colleagues would describe you as both humble and unflappable, someone who always puts the work and the team above themselves
• You are a natural problem solver who thinks creatively and finds patterns easily
• You are flexible and can easily adapt to a fast-paced environment with changing priorities

What We Value

We’re revolutionizing tech recruitment. So we question everything, because the best answers sit just to the right of a question mark. That’s our heritage as a disruptive company as a company whose future depends on our capacity to innovate with a sense of drive, purpose and urgency. If you join Built In, you will work from this set of values:

• Be Inclusive, Always. We’re committed to a culture where all people are respected, have a say and can be their whole selves. We will uplift and advocate for one another. Always.
• Be Unreasonably Passionate. Our passion is borderline obsessive, and we’re ok with that. No one ever built anything great on a meh. We work with outsized passion to fulfill our mission.
• Be Humble. You don’t have all the answers. Luckily, you don’t have to. Don’t worry about being right. Be humble instead.
• Stay Curious. Curiosity is a springboard to the future. It can transform the wisp of an idea into a breakthrough. We ask what if. We work with wonder. It’s how we innovate.
• Lead with Solutions. Question everything. But offer solutions as you do. Raise issues. But propose a few answers. For every hole you poke, offer a way to patch it up.
• Own the Result. We have no time for blame or shame. When you stumble, own it, learn from it + get back to business.
• Do More. Do more than your job description. Take initiative. Take charge. No job is beneath you, and no job is too big. Be a leader and do more do whatever it takes.

Be Inclusive, Always

Research shows that women and other marginalized groups tend to apply to roles only when they check every point on a job description. We encourage you to apply if you meet the majority of qualifications and this role is aligned with your career trajectory.

Built In is an equal employment opportunity employer. Qualified candidates are considered for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, military or veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Built In is guided by principles of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). We are committed to this work over the long-term, but here’s some of what’s in place today:

• We have five thriving ERG groups: Built In For The People, BuiltOut, United We Parent, Women United in Tech and Built In Tribe.
• We have a dedicated Director, HR + Inclusion who oversees our DEI roadmap, which provides our annual metrics, goals and initiatives.
• We are proud to be led by a woman CEO and founder, and that more than half of our managers and employees identify as women

Salary

The estimated salary range for this position is $95,000-$105,000. Starting salary may vary based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as experience, skills, and qualifications.