Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Domaine is the world's largest independent Shopify design and development partner, helping brands create, build, and grow commerce experiences. The Technical SEO Specialist will support and scale the company's SEO practice through hands-on technical SEO execution, complex migrations, replatforming, audits, performance monitoring, and generative engine optimization. The contractor will collaborate with SEO, Strategy, Engineering, Design, and Content teams to protect and improve organic performance.
Responsibilities
- Lead the SEO workstream on site migrations: replatforming, domain changes, URL restructures, IA overhauls, design system rollouts, and CMS/PIM transitions
- Run pre-migration baselines: full crawls, log file analysis, indexable page inventories, top-traffic and top-revenue page snapshots, backlink profile capture
- Build and QA redirect maps (1:1 where possible, intent-matched where not), partnering with engineering on implementation and edge cases (parameters, faceted URLs, pagination, locale paths)
- Author migration runbooks with risk assessments, go/no-go checklists, staging QA protocols, and rollback criteria
- Lead post-launch validation: indexation monitoring, redirect health, render parity, schema parity, internal link integrity, Core Web Vitals regression checks
- Diagnose and recover traffic in the event of post-migration drops; build the recovery roadmap
- Conduct technical audits across crawlability, indexability, rendering, site architecture, internal linking, canonicalization, and structured data
- Create presentations with audit data to review the findings with clients
- Diagnose JavaScript rendering issues (CSR vs SSR vs SSG, hydration, lazy-loaded content) and partner with engineering on fixes
- Own Core Web Vitals strategy in partnership with engineering — LCP, INP, CLS — including diagnosis, prioritization, and verification
- Implement and validate Schema.org JSON-LD across product, collection, article, FAQ, breadcrumb, and organization types
- Manage XML sitemaps, LLM.txt, robots.txt, hreflang, canonical strategy, and pagination handling
- Run log file analysis to understand crawl behavior and bot allocation
- Review agentic AI Readiness audits and prioritize fixes and implementation
- Understand GEO basics and how to implement GEO improvement strategies
- Create Query Fan Out strategies, strengthen Entity analysis and optimization, audit and diagnose AI visibility issues
- Implement AI visibility strategies to improve finability in various LLM’s
- Use Claude and other AI platforms to help improve speed of delivery and to enhance client strategies
- Track rankings, traffic, indexation, and revenue impact of technical work; communicate clear, prioritized insights to clients and internal teams
- Build dashboards and reports with GSC, GA4, Looker Studio, and SEO platforms
- Stay current on algorithm updates, rendering changes, and emerging discovery surfaces (AI Overviews, AI assistants, GEO)
- Partner with engineering throughout discovery, build, QA, and launch to ensure SEO requirements are scoped, built, and validated
- Translate technical SEO requirements into engineering tickets with clear acceptance criteria
- Educate internal teams (Strategy, Design, Engineering, Content) on technical SEO fundamentals and migration best practices
- Support technical SEO strategy for domaineworldwide.com
- Performance monitoring, indexation health, and technical recommendations
Skills
- 4+ years of technical SEO experience, with demonstrated ownership of at least two complex site migrations or replatforms end-to-end
- Deep working knowledge of crawlability, indexability, rendering (CSR/SSR/SSG), canonicalization, hreflang, schema markup, and Core Web Vitals
- Proficiency with technical SEO tooling: Screaming Frog, Sitebulb, Google Search Console, Google Analytics, log file analyzers (e.g., Screaming Frog Log File Analyzer)
- Comfort with redirect logic and ability to author and QA large redirect maps (regex-based and 1:1)
- Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — enough to read code, diagnose rendering issues, and write precise engineering tickets
- Ability to communicate technical issues and tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, build-and-scale environment
- Experience working with ecommerce brands
- Shopify experience — collection/product URL handling, theme rendering, app conflicts, locale routing, headless setups (Hydrogen)
- Experience with headless or composable commerce migrations
- Familiarity with edge/CDN-level redirect handling (Cloudflare Workers, Vercel, Netlify)
Benefits
- Competitive Healthcare with Dental & Vision
- Retirement savings plan with employer matching
- Competitive PTO policy with paid time off at end of year
- Flexible working schedule
- Remote-first culture
- Home office stipend
- Apple gear
- Continued education and personal development opportunities
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