Technical SEO Specialist (Contractor)

USA (Remote)

Salary Not AvailableMid LevelPart time

Posted 7 days ago

Job Summary

Own end-to-end technical SEO across migrations and post-launch validation, leading the migrations workstream, technical audits, and performance monitoring to protect and recover traffic while collaborating with engineering and cross-functional teams.

  • Lead site migrations and post-launch validation
  • Build and QA redirect maps and runbooks

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Migrations & Replatforming
  • 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
  • Technical SEO Foundations
  • 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

Requirements

  • 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

Preferred

  • 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)
  • Exposure to AI-powered discovery and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)
  • Experience with international SEO (multi-region, multi-language sites)
  • Experience collaborating with writers, agencies, and cross-functional partners

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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Rippling

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Rippling is a workforce management system that eliminates the friction from running a business. Today, most companies struggle with everything from routine tasks, like running payroll, to cross-functional planning, like aligning on headcount. That’s because all their data related to people, processes, and systems is scattered in a hundred places. Rippling has every application you need to run your business—from applicant tracking and payroll to IT and expenses—in one place. But unlike other systems, Rippling sits on top of a unified platform. Data flows dynamically between Rippling’s applications, giving every team a shared source of truth, the power to automate processes, and access to the insights they need. This allows your business to execute better, faster.Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.2B from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock.Get help: rippling.com/contactLicensing details: https://app.rippling.com/licensing

Founded in 2016
San Francisco, California, USA
6.5K employees (237 in marketing)
77% recommend to a friend
86% CEO approval

Funding

Total Funding
$2.4B
Last Raise
$450M
Series G, 10 months ago

Funding History

  • May 2025
    Series G • $450M
  • Apr 2024
    Series F • $200M
  • Apr 2024
    Secondary Market • $590M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
6.9M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$2.4M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
16.6%
Direct
64.8%
Referral
11.2%
Social
6.7%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~6.5K

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Technical SEO Specialist (Contractor)

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