Senior SEO Specialist

Overview:

Two Barrels is hiring a Senior SEO Specialist. You will be a traditional company employee. This is a full time 40-hour M-F position with company benefits.

As a Senior SEO Specialist, you’ll be responsible for assessing and prioritizing our SEO, setting up and evaluating experiments, and implementing SEO improvements on a large scale. This requires serious cross-team interaction, so we’re seeking a great team player with excellent communication skills.

Our ideal candidate? We’re not looking for someone who’s never failed—that’d be nuts in SEO. We want someone who learns from each experiment. Who doesn’t see a single path forward. Who gets excited about adapting to change—whether that’s new branding or an algorithm update (seriously, Google, can’t you ever just chill for a bit?).

Location:

Spokane, WA or Remote

Duration:

Full Time

Wage:

DOE

Responsibilities:

• Identify, prioritize, drive and execute SEO initiatives.
• Work closely with marketing, design and development teams on long & short-term planning, strategically improving & increasing content, and balancing SEO goals with branding & other company objectives.
• Serve as a resource, leader and mentor for the SEO team.
• Monitor and develop responses to existing and anticipated Google algorithm changes.
• Monitor our competitors, developing plans to crush them.
• Optimize all things SEO—information architecture, structured data, crawling and indexing, page speed, etc.
• Oversee multiple concurrent SEO projects.
• Audit SEO performance, identifying issues and potential sources.
• Design, track and evaluate SEO experiments.
• Produce reports on topics such as traffic, rankings and experiments.
• Effectively communicate SEO goals, needs and actions with top levels of the business.
• Stay on top of industry best practices.

Minimum Qualifications:

• A college degree
• 3+ years of SEO experience leading projects
• Experience ranking for highly competitive national terms
• High level of proficiency with a wide variety of SEO tools, such as Google Analytics, Google Search Console, GTM, Ahrefs, SEMrush, etc.
• Significant experience with technical SEO (schemas, URL structures, rendering issues, crawl performance, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with WordPress, HTML/CSS/JavaScript
• SEO experience with large websites (1,000+ indexed pages)

Why you might like this job:

• We’re not an ad agency.
• You don’t have to deal with clients.
• We never have to drum up business; all clients are in house.
• Experimentation will be required.
• You want to work with a creative team of people who like their jobs.
• You want to directly witness the effect your work has on a company.
• You love SEO, trying new ideas, and using your smarts to outrank the competition.

Why you wouldn’t want this job: 

• If you require a lot of structure. Folks who need an authority figure hovering over them to get their work done have a tough time here.
• If you don’t want to work with other people. SEO affects every part of our business. You don’t have to be an extrovert, but you will have to initiate and maintain a whole lot of communication.

Benefits:

• Great Wage & Success Meetings with your manager
• Work From Home comfort package & company provided equipment
• 22 days paid time off annually, PLUS 4 paid holidays 
• Up to 5% 401k employer matching through Fidelity
• 100% employer-paid medical, dental and vision for employees
• Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Flexible hours
• Coffee shop next door
• Crappy parking? Oh, I mean a cool downtown location for easy public transportation options…