Senior SEO Specialist (Contract)

• 5000 - 7000 USD per Month
• Full Time
• Posted : 11 months ago

About Practicum

Hi, there! Welcome to Practicum, we provide comprehensive tech education for everyone interested in starting a career in the tech field.

At Practicum, we're building an international family of digital re-skilling products to help people with versatile backgrounds learn a new profession and build a sustainable career in tech.

Our program graduates have landed jobs at top companies like Tesla, Spotify, PlayStation, Google, and Microsoft. So far, over 5,000 students have chosen Practicum, and hundreds of new students are joining us each month.

We believe everyone can jumpstart a new career, which is why we produce quality educational content and offer intensive courses in tech complete with full access to an interactive platform, code reviews, and support from industry practitioners.

In the role

Our company is seeking a highly skilled and experienced SEO Specialist to join our team for a 6 month project. As the SEO Specialist, you will be responsible for developing and implementing effective SEO strategies from scratch to increase our website's visibility and drive traffic to our products.

What you will do::

• Increase the amount of SEO traffic on the website from 0 to 10k /monthly in 6 month
• Website Audit: Conduct technical audits, ensuring the website is technically sound and structured for SEO best practices.
• Keyword Research: Conduct comprehensive keyword research to identify new ranking opportunities for our website and products.
• Collaborating with the development team to ensure SEO best practices are properly implemented on newly developed code
• Collaborating with the content team to produce tone of new content for seo purposes
• Competitor Analysis: Monitor and evaluate competitor activities and SEO profiles to anticipate their strategies and maintain our competitive edge.
• Link Building: Develop and implement link building strategies, increasing both quantity and quality of inbound links.
• On-Page and Off-Page Optimization: Implement on-page and off-page SEO strategies including changes to site architecture, interlinking, content, meta-tags, headers, etc.
  
  

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a dedicated SEO position for high-traffic websites.
• Proven experience as an SEO Specialist or similar role
• Proven success in SEO strategy and implementation with a track record of optimizing large sites with a substantial amount of pages.
• In-depth knowledge of keyword research, SEO copywriting, and technical SEO
• Experience with SEO tools such as Google Analytics, SEMrush or Ahrefs
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
  
  

• Remote (Must be based in the USA)
• 6 month project based opportunity, may become a permanent FTE position if certain criteria and goals are met by the end of the project
• $5k - $7k month
• A comfortable digital office. We use modern digital tools — Mattermost, Miro, Notion, Zoom, Jira — to make working together seamless.
• A schedule that’s convenient for you. There isn’t a focus on micromanaging.
• Growth. Our product is expanding quickly, so it's a great time to get on board and challenge yourself
• Internationally distributed team. Exceptional teammates, who love what they do
  
  

• *At this time we are unable to offer H1B sponsorship opportunities.
• **This job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities at any time.
• ***Practicum is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national original, age, religion, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, protected military/veteran status, or any other legally protected factor.

Skills

• Research Skills
• Copywriting
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• SEMrush
• Keyword Research