Job Details
SoundCloud empowers artists and fans to connect and share through music. Founded in 2007, SoundCloud is an artist-first platform empowering artists to build and grow their careers by providing them with the most progressive tools, services, and resources. With over 400+ million tracks from 40+ million artists, the future of music is SoundCloud.
We seek a motivated SEO professional passionate about media and entertainment to join our growing Growth Marketing team! The Technical SEO Specialist will play a crucial role in driving organic traffic and improving the visibility of soundcloud.com. This individual will conduct technical audits, implement SEO best practices, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure optimal website performance.
This position can be remotely based on the East Coast of the United States. However, we can't hire remote candidates based in the following locations: Delaware, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, West Virginia, Virginia, South Carolina, and Pennsylvania.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and execute comprehensive SEO strategies aligned with business objectives
- Conduct keyword research and analysis to identify and optimize content for target keywords and phrases
- Optimize website content, meta tags, image alt text, and headers to improve search engine visibility
- Monitor and analyze website performance metrics to track SEO progress
- Collaborate with designers and developers to create SEO-friendly website structures and layouts to enhance user experience and search engine crawlability
- Conduct regular technical SEO audits to identify and address website issues that may impact search engine rankings, including broken links, slow page load times, and duplicate content
- Create and submit XML sitemaps to search engines to help them understand and index our website's content
- Implement schema markup to provide search engines with additional context about our content and improve rich snippet visibility
- Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues related to website SEO and staying up-to-date with SEO trends and best practices
- Work closely with content creators to ensure SEO-friendly content is produced
- Measure content performance and make data-driven recommendations
- Generate regular reports on SEO metrics and key performance indicators
- Analyze data to identify opportunities for improvement and optimize SEO strategies
Experience and Background:
- 3+ years of experience in SEO with a focus in media and entertainment industries
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Marketing, or a related field
- Strong understanding of HTML, JavaScript, CSS, JSON-LD and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
- Familiarity with server-side rendering, single-page applications, and how bots crawl a site
- Experience with SEO tools (e.g., Google Search Console, Google Analytics, SEMrush)
- Prior experience in SEO E-commerce is preferred but not required
- Knowledge of social media marketing and optimization is a plus
- Proficiency in A/B testing and conversion rate optimization is a bonus
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Passion for music
The salary range for this role is $90,000-120,000 annually. The final salary offered will be determined based on relative experience, skills, internal equity, and location. We also offer a generous total rewards program - read more about additional benefits and perks below!
- We are a multinational company with offices in the US (New York and Los Angeles), Germany (Berlin), and the UK (London)
- We provide a flexible work culture that offers the opportunity to collaborate and connect in person at our offices as well as accommodating work from home
- We are deeply committed to ensuring diversity, equity and inclusion at all levels of our organization and fostering a community where everyone’s voice, perspective and experience is respected and heard
- We believe a strong team is made by investing in employees through mentorship, workshops and enrichment opportunities
Benefits:
- Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, and vision plans, as well as mental health resources
- Robust 401k program
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan
- Generous professional development allowance
- Interested in a gym membership, photography course or book? We have a Creativity and Wellness benefit!
- Flexible vacation and public holiday policy where you can take up to 35 days of PTO annually
- 16 paid weeks for all parents (birthing and non-birthing), regardless of gender, to welcome newborns, adopted and foster children
- Various snacks, goodies, and 2 free lunches weekly when at the office
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at SoundCloud
SoundCloud is for everyone. Diversity and open expression are fundamental to our organization; they help us lead what’s next in music by understanding and empowering our creators and fans, no matter their identity. We acknowledge the challenges in the music industry, and strive to influence an inclusive culture where everyone can contribute respectfully and thrive, especially the historically marginalized communities that many of our creators, fans and SoundClouders identify with. We are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment at SoundCloud for everyone, regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, migration background, national origin, age, disability status, or care-giver status.
At SoundCloud you can find your community or elevate your allyship by joining a Diversity Resource Group. Diversity Resource Groups are employee-organized groups focused on supporting and promoting the interests of a particular underrepresented community in order to build a more inclusive culture at SoundCloud. Anyone can join, whether you share the identity or strive to be an ally.
