SEO Analyst, Commerce

Job Description

WHO WE ARE

Vox Media's newsroom analytics team is part of a growing analytics department that consists of SEO, newsroom analytics, social audience development, product analytics, and data science. Our mission is to use data to help Vox Media grow our audiences and businesses.

As a community of journalists and storytellers, business professionals, creators and technologists, we believe it is a moral and business imperative to amplify voices: to cultivate diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout our organization and media. This applies to our candidates, our teams, our storytelling, our creative work, and our platforms, products, and partnerships.

The SEO team is part of a centralized Analytics team, situated primarily between the Editorial and Product organizations. We own the company's POV and strategy for both Content and Technical SEO.

We're seeking an analyst that will report to the SEO Manager, Content to help grow our commerce audience from search. The ideal candidate is curious and creative in their data analysis; has a strong understanding of the relationship between SEO and commerce and communicates their findings effectively; and collaborates as needed with commerce stakeholders.

WHAT YOU'LL DO
• Maintain and monitor regular automated SEO reports in support of Vox Media's commerce goals
• Build and support ad-hoc reports and dashboards across multiple SEO and commerce data sources to inform areas of growth opportunity
• Collect and manipulate SEO and commerce data using multiple tactics and work to ensure data integrity
• Perform research and analyses of SEO and commerce data and interpret results; draw insights and contribute ideas for actionable feedback for commerce stakeholders
• Assist with documenting best SEO practices and how-to guides to support commerce stakeholders
• Maintain strong relationships with commerce stakeholders in order to communicate and assist on strategies for growth from search

WHO YOU ARE
• You have a strong understanding of editorial SEO
• You have a strong understanding of commerce KPIs
• You are analytical and detail oriented, with a passion not just for reporting data, but also for identifying underlying themes around key trends, results and critical outcomes
• You have experience with various analytics and SEO tools, such as Google Search Console, Google Trends, Google Keyword Planner, Google Analytics or equivalent
• You have experience monitoring changes in ranking
• You have experience with Excel/Google Sheets and can aggregate data from disparate sources in a consolidated view
• You have strong written and verbal communication skills

Bonus points for:
• A passion for digital publishing; experience working in a commerce website in a fluid editorial environment
• Knowledge of technical SEO and experience with Screaming Frog and/or DeepCrawl
• Experience identifying errors in Google Search Console and communicating them to product teams
• Experience with SEMrush, Moz, or other third party ranking tools
• Experience monitoring and responding to Google algorithm changes
• Experience utilizing data stored in Google BigQuery

WHERE YOU'LL WORK

This job is remote. We're dedicated to the health and wellbeing of all of our employees, and when we reopen, will require everyone who works from one of our offices to be fully-vaccinated against COVID-19. Employees with approved religious or medical exemptions may be subject to additional safety requirements, such as submitting to regular COVID-19 testing and/or wearing a face covering in our offices.

WHY VOX MEDIA?

WHAT WE OFFER

This is a permanent, full-time position. This job is benefits-eligible. We pride ourselves in providing comprehensive benefits to support all of our employees wherever they are in life. You can find more information about our benefits here.
OUR DEI+ COMMITMENT

Vox Media is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone can show up as their authentic selves and create their best work. We recognize that great stories, platforms, products and services come from people with all manner of backgrounds and experiences. We recognize that our commitments require ongoing work and sustained attention, as well as adaptation to new insights and best practices . We keep our diversity data public for the sake of accountability, transparency and communication . Learn more about our values here, and our approach to corporate citizenship here.

Vox Media is an Equal Opportunity Employer and qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, national origin, protected veteran status, age, or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state, or local law. Vox Media will also consider all qualified applicants with criminal histories in accordance with applicable Fair Chance laws. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations as part of the application process to candidates with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation as part of the application process, please contact our People & Culture team (recruitment@voxmedia.com).

WHAT COMES NEXT
Our recruiting team will go through applications in a timely manner. Please note that our recruiting team will only contact you from @voxmedia.com email addresses, never via text message. Read more about how our recruiting team operates, and how to protect yourself from recruitment fraud, here.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gk9n4q-18-217-208-72-42 in your application.