Conversion Rate Optimization Specialist, Salt Lake City, UT

Salt Lake City, UT (On-site)

$62K/yr – $93K/yrMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 7 days ago

Job Summary

Own website optimization by partnering with content and analytics teams to improve conversions across pages and journeys.

  • Define goals and best practices with content teams
  • Lead conversion rate experiments from insight to implementation
  • Align SEO, paid media, and audience targeting with journey steps

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Partner with content teams to establish website goals and ensure best practices are consistently followed.
  • Monitor website content and user experiences, identifying opportunities to optimize pages, flows, and conversion pathways.
  • Analyze and map customer journeys, defining page purposes and aligning experiences to audience needs at each stage.
  • Collaborate with SEO, Website, and Paid Media teams to ensure audience targeting, calls to action, and journey progression are aligned.
  • Monitor website analytics and partner with analytics teams to understand user behavior and performance trends.
  • Develop hypotheses and lead conversion rate optimization initiatives from analysis through implementation.
  • Review and approve current and future website pages to ensure strategic alignment with conversion goals and overall user experience.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree preferred.
  • 2+ years of in-house or agency experience within a successful web business, driving conversion improvements.
  • Confidence using web analytics in driving improvement ideas from customer journey insights.
  • Team player with an attitude of collaboration with other teams.

Preferred

  • Experience partnering with cross-functional digital marketing teams.
  • Experience conducting traffic analysis and conversion analysis to support optimization strategies.
  • Demonstrated ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution.

Benefits

  • medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare; health savings account and flexible spending account; basic and voluntary life insurance; disability coverage; accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages; legal and identity theft coverage; retirement savings plan; wellbeing program; discounted WGU tuition; flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual; flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual; 11 paid holidays; other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave.
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Western Governors University

WGU, www.wgu.edu, is an online university for the 21st century.We are driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs. Since its establishment in 1997, WGU has grown into a national university, serving more than 120,000 students from all 50 states.The university continues to open doors for adult learners who need flexibility to achieve their education and career goals. WGU’s innovative competency-based academic approach makes it possible, allowing individuals to fit their education into their lives, not the other way around.WGU was founded by the governors of 19 U.S. states. WGU is also supported by over 20 major corporations and foundations who believe in WGU’s commitment to producing highly competent graduates.

Founded in 1997
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
12K employees (373 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$62K/yr – $93K/yr

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Funding

Last Raise
Grant, 10 months ago

Funding History

  • May 2025
    Grant

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
9.6M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$9.3M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
24.4%
Direct
63.4%
Referral
10.7%
Social
0.6%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~12K

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Conversion Rate Optimization Specialist, Salt Lake City, UT

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