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MDPI UK career site
Manchester · Hybrid Remote

Technical SEO Specialist

As an international pioneer in scholarly open-access publishing, our mission is to foster open scientific exchange in all forms, across all disciplines and platforms. Besides our publishing main business, we develop and maintain digital platforms and software ranging from scientific exchange platforms to article databases and search engines, all focused on empowering scholars and giving them the best possible product and service. As of 2022, we count more than 6500 colleagues in 15 offices across 10 countries.

Team Introduction / Position

To strengthen our IT team, we are recruiting a Technical SEO Specialist to expand our Product Team for our main website www.mdpi.com; this is a brand new role in the team reporting to the Product Manager. As the Technical SEO Specialist, you will play a key role in monitoring, developing and maintaining on-page SEO, website accessibility and content crawlability.

Tasks & Responsibilities

As an Technical SEO Specialist you will:

  • Monitor and create opportunities to enhance the crawling, rendering, indexation (by google and google scholar), sitemap and images sitemap, and mobile performance
  • Support the use of structured data and the continuous work on accessibility (technical and for visually impaired users)
  • Monitor errors and coordinate corrections- Keep up-to-date with evolving search engine requirements and implementing the technical solutions with the dev team
  • Provide expert recommendation to other SEO professionals, web developers, digital marketers, and other specialists to enhance MDPI’s SEO.

 

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, marketing or relevant field, with strong interest in data analysis
  • At least 2 years of working experience in technical SEO, preferably for large, high-traffic websites- Knowledge of technical frontend and web development
  • Ability to suggest, describe and coordinate changes to the website- Experience working with Google Analytics, Google Search Console and page quality measurement solutions
  • An understanding of SEO and technical SEO concepts, search data- Entrepreneurial ability to diagnose web data tracking issues and propose practical and actionable solutions
  • Good communication and collaboration skills with stakeholders from different backgrounds
  • Ability to produce clear and concise data-driven reports and presentations; ability to simplify advanced statistical concepts for a layman audience. 

 

If you are interested in this position, we look forward to receiving:

  • A motivational letter that briefly describes your motivations for joining MDPI
  • A resume including personal information, past education, work experience
  • If available: reference letters, certificate

 

Initiatives

At MDPI, we develop and maintain various platforms in order to better serve the scientific community. Please find here-below a list of our main platforms:

https://www.mdpi.com/https://sciprofiles.com/https://sciforum.net/https://www.scilit.net/https://www.preprints.org/https://www.mdpi.com/bookshttps://www.jams.pub/https://encyclopedia.pub/
Locations
Manchester
Remote status
Hybrid Remote

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Benefits!

  • Hybrid Working

    Alongside flexible start and finish times, MDPI is proud to have adopted a flexible working policy post-pandemic to allow team members to adopt a more balanced lifestyle and support improved wellbeing through reducing commuting time, more autonomy around their schedules thus extra time for health and wellbeing activities.

  • Special Days Off

    Getting married or moving house? No need to use up your holidays, MDPI offer paid time off for such occasions.

  • Our Culture

    A friendly working environment with regular social events, after work drinks, seasonal parties, pizza lunches, team building and a variety of restaurants and bars nearby.

  • Bonus Incentives

    Depending on your role, you may be eligible for our bonus scheme which rewards high-performing employees.

  • Cyclescheme

    Save between 25-39% on a bike and accessories.

Diversity & Inclusion

MDPI provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment, without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, gender identification, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law in every location in which we have offices. Thank you for your interest in applying to MDPI. We value diversity and encourage the very best candidates to apply.

About MDPI UK

Our mission is to foster open scientific exchange in all forms, across all disciplines. We operate more than 300 diverse, peer-reviewed, open access journals supported by over 35,500 academic editors. We serve scholars from around the world to ensure the latest research is openly and broadly available.

Founded in Basel, Switzerland
Coworkers 5,000+
Manchester · Hybrid Remote

Technical SEO Specialist

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