Technical Search Director

London, UK (Hybrid)

£66K/yr – £76K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 6 weeks ago

Job Summary

Own the lead on Technical SEO and Web Experience, driving end-to-end audits, architecture, and delivery across migrations, roadmaps, and developer collaboration to optimize crawlability, accessibility, and AI-ready content.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • 1. Technical SEO & New-Age Search Strategy
  • - Advanced Web Auditing: Lead end-to-end technical site audits, identifying structural obstacles, rendering issues, and optimisation opportunities to enhance site usability, speed, and indexing efficiency. With experience with Apache configuration files (redirects) and knowledge of CLI (command-line interface) tools.
  • - Next-Gen Search Optimisation: Architect technical strategies tailored for modern search ecosystems, ensuring client websites are optimised for crawlability, accessibility, and content extraction across traditional search, AI summaries, and generative AI chat experiences.
  • - Semantic & Structural Design: Oversee structured data schema implementation, semantic HTML, site architecture, and rendering optimisation (client-side, server-side, dynamic rendering) to maximise machine understanding.
  • - Performance & Core Web Vitals: Oversee front-end web performance analysis, leveraging tools like Chrome DevTools, Lighthouse, PageSpeed Insights, and WebPageTest to drive Core Web Vitals compliance.
  • 2. Developer Engagement & Execution
  • - Actionable Ticketing: Translate complex technical audit findings into clear, digestible, developer-ready specifications and tickets (e.g. Jira, Azure DevOps) that client engineering teams can seamlessly implement.
  • - Developer Advocacy: Work directly with client web developers, frontend engineers, and technical architects to communicate requirements, align on standards (W3C, WCAG), and validate implemented fixes.
  • - Front-End & Code Expertise: Apply strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to debug complex front-end SEO issues, client-side frameworks, and DOM manipulation challenges.
  • 3. Technical Project Leadership

Requirements

  • Extensive experience in Technical SEO within an agency environment.
  • Expert knowledge of Technical SEO best practice, site migrations and web performance optimisation.
  • Strong understanding of AI search, emerging search technologies and the evolving search landscape.
  • Confident working with developers and translating technical recommendations into actionable solutions.
  • Commercially minded with excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
  • Proven experience leading technical teams and driving capability development across a business.

Benefits

  • Sabbatical: Paid sabbatical at 7 years with an option to take it unpaid at 5 years
  • 25 days holiday a year
  • Discretionary annual performance based incentive
  • Sale commission
  • Recruitment referrals bonus
  • Health & Wellbeing contribution
  • 2 Recharge Days each holiday year
  • Ride to Work scheme
  • Railcard
  • Season Ticket loan
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Croud

3.6 Glassdoor

We're an independent global media, creative, and data agency helping our clients make their next best move.We help brands unlock growth with a Return on Intelligence - applying innovative intelligence across brand strategy, integrated media, social, creative, and data. In a world where agility is essential and not all returns are created equal, we bring transparency, speed, and incrementality-focused measurement to fuel growth and unlock true value.Founded in 2011 with the mission to reinvent the agency model, we combine 600+ in-house digital experts with a global, on-demand network of 2,900 marketing specialists. This agile, scalable model gives us more time to really understand our clients’ businesses, and deliver truly incremental growth.Croud has recently acquired Vert Digital, an Atlanta-based digital marketing agency, and Metageni, an analytics specialist, having previously acquired leading social-first agency Born Social, Croud Luxe (formerly VERB Brands), and impakt Advisors.Croud is proud to partner with leading global brands including Audible, IWG, Frasers Group, Nespresso, and Prime Video, alongside Born Social’s impressive client list which includes Ford, Barclays and Diageo (Guinness).Contact the team at partnerships@croud.com for a chat, to set up an intro or any other further information.We are always looking for the very best talent, so if you're interested in working for Croud please check out careers.croud.com

Founded in 2011
London, England, GBR
741 employees (305 in marketing)
67% recommend to a friend
66% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

£66K/yr – £76K/yr

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Funding

Total Funding
$38.5M
Last Raise
$38.5M
Private Equity, 6 years ago

Funding History

  • Nov 2019
    Private Equity • $38.5M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
60.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
52.3%
Direct
34.3%
Referral
6.3%
Social
5.8%
Paid
0.9%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~742

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