Search Engine Optimization Specialist

About Sherpr

Sherpr is an innovative door to door shipping solution for the delivery of luggage, boxes and sports equipment. Forget lugging your items to the airport, queuing to check-in and waiting at baggage reclaim, or paying a huge premium to ship your belongings with legacy courier companies. We make the whole process a breeze and save customers a ton of money, at the click of a button, whether they're relocating or simply taking a holiday.

Founded by one of Spotify's launch team, Sherpr's team includes board-level directors from travel industry giants Booking.com & TUI. Despite the pandemic, Sherpr has seen >400% year-on-year growth over the past 3 years and we're perfectly placed to continue on this trajectory through 2023. We are adding top talent across the marketing, customer success, operations and tech teams. If you're an ambitious individual looking to join a top-notch team, we'd love to hear from you.

About the role - SEO Specialist

The SEO specialist role sits within the marketing team with the aim of researching, implementing and measuring Sherpr’s SEO strategies across the international markets within which we operate. You will ensure strategies fit the uniqueness of each of our markets while adhering to overall brand guidelines. You will take ownership of planning and directing the creation of digital content that is optimized for search engines with the aim of improving our share of voice against competitors.

The successful candidate will be responsible of:

• Developing and optimising Sherpr’s search engine strategies across all markets
• Performing regular and thorough keyword research
• Setting measurable goals that demonstrate improvements in marketing efforts
• Monitoring daily performance metrics to understand SEO strategy performance
• Communicating and collaborating with wider marketing team to align goals
• Updating and writing compelling and high-quality website content, including blog posts, landing pages and page descriptions
• Managing website backlinks for maximum optimization and search engine rankings
• Increasing the company’s search engine results and rankings.
• Staying up to date with the latest SEO and digital marketing trends and best practices

About you:

• Have demonstrable experience of increasing web traffic, rankings and conversions from SEO activities
• Strong understanding of search engine algorithms and ranking factors
• Experience in web analytics and marketing
• Experience using SEO industry standard programs
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Comfortable with data and the presentation of it
• Familiarity with WordPress CMS
• Experience with other aspects of the digital marketing mix including social media and email marketing would be a plus

Key Benefits:

• Employee stock option programme
• 23 annual leave days (Excluding bank holidays)
• An extra paid day off for your birthday
• Equipment provided
• Blend of remote and office working
• An opportunity to join a fast growth start-up

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £40,000.00-£50,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Work from home

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• London, N1 6HW: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• SEO: 3 years (required)
• Content Management Systems (CMS)?: 3 years (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in London, N1 6HW

Expected start date: 13/03/2023