Sr. Manager, Digital Marketing, SEO & Website Content

Walnut Creek, CA (Hybrid)

$120K/yr – $130K/yrManagerFull time

Posted 5 days ago

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Job Summary

Owns end-to-end SEO strategy and execution across brand sites and eComm, coordinating content, technical optimization, and analytics with internal teams and external partners.

  • Leads agency management and cross-functional projects
  • Dives into data to drive performance and reporting

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead SEO across owned websites and eComm
  • Monitor and analyze internal and competitor/retailer metrics affectable by SEO (e.g. keyword performance, traffic/estimated traffic, topical authority) to inform brand, customer, digital, and eComm partners
  • Compile recommendations for content optimization and technical development, taking a leading role managing agencies, developers, eComm, and digital teams on SEO projects
  • Audit brand websites for technical issues that can affect brand site UX and search rankings, continually work with dev team to resolve glitches and optimize website performance
  • Audit domains for current and historical backlink authority profile, create and maintain 301 redirect mappings to retain and grow search authority/trust
  • Recommend and project manage advanced SEO projects (e.g. link-building, toxic backlink disavow lists, schema automation)
  • Measure and report performance of website and eComm SEO against goals/KPIs, provide analysis and content/technical optimization recommendations
  • Track and communicate ongoing and completed website and eComm optimization projects and development tickets
  • Lead projects to gather, format, update, maintain, and optimize product data for brand site content, third party review syndication, and online purchase functionality
  • Assist in managing external agencies on website and microsites builds, site structure changes, technical and content QA

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree with 10 years minimum of digital marketing experience, with 5 years focused in Content Marketing, SEO, and/or Marketing Technologist roles
  • Extensive experience leading projects implementing and QAing new website functionality & content load, website redesign & migration
  • Content management system experience (minimum 3+ years’ experience in Sitecore, WordPress a plus)
  • Knowledge of marketing technology software (HubSpot CRM a plus)
  • Extensive experience with SEO analytics platforms like Search Console, SEMrush, Majestic, Lumar, etc.
  • Extensive experience with HTML and JSON-LD (JavaScript and CSS a plus)
  • 5+ years’ experience in setting up tracking and reporting of digital marketing campaign engagement, events, and conversion using Google Tag Manager, tracking and distribution traffic/event tracking, etc.
  • Strong project management and organizational skills
  • Experience in dealing with multiple and diverse internal stakeholders, and interacting with both business and development partners
  • Excellent communication skills, written and verbal, across a variety of organizational levels (Spanish fluency a plus)

Preferred

  • Spanish fluency a plus

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
  • Free Life and Disability Insurance
  • Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
  • 401k with 3% company match and annual employer discretionary contribution
  • Paid vacation, holidays and sick time
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Access to thousands of free online courses
  • Discounts on cell phones, movie tickets, gym memberships, and more!
  • Education Assistance (both college degrees and professional certifications)
  • Referral Program with cash bonus
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Central Garden & Pet

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Central Garden & Pet understands that home is central to life and has proudly nurtured happy and healthy homes for over 40 years. Our innovative and trusted products are dedicated to helping lawns grow greener, gardens bloom bigger, pets live healthier, and communities grow stronger.Central is home to a leading portfolio of more than 65 high-quality brands, including Amdro®, Aqueon®, Cadet®, C&S®, Farnam®, Ferry-Morse®, Four Paws®, Kaytee®, Nylabone®, and Pennington®, strong manufacturing and distribution capabilities, and a passionate, entrepreneurial growth culture. With fiscal 2024 net sales of $3.2 billion, Central is on a mission to lead the future of the pet and garden industries.Central Garden & Pet is brought to life every day by over 6,000 passionate people who are primarily located across North America. Our employees are talented, energetic, and dedicated to the growth and success of our brands. We take pride in providing a great work experience to our employees – including a safe work environment, friendly atmosphere, and a comprehensive compensation & benefits package. For additional information about careers at Central, please visit www.central.com/careers/career-with-central.

Founded in 1980
Walnut Creek, California, USA
1.9K employees (238 in marketing)
64% recommend to a friend

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
47.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
33.9%
Direct
56.4%
Referral
7%
Social
1.7%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1.9K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
205 (11% of company)
Median Career Experience
9 years
Median Tenure
2.3 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

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