Technical SEO Specialist

Reston, VA (Hybrid)

$91K/yr – $111K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 4 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own and optimize the technical SEO stack end to end, guiding crawl and index health, site architecture, performance, migrations, structured data, and AI-visible search strategies across languages and regions.

  • Own crawl and index health end to end
  • Lead technical SEO across migrations, structure, and AI visibility

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own crawl and index health end to end including crawl budget, indexation directives, sitemaps, robots directives, orphaned pages, broken and redirecting internal links, and all error remediation.
  • Own site architecture and internal linking as a system, how authority moves through the site, and whether the pages that matter are being prioritized.
  • Run page performance as an ongoing program: monitor Core Web Vitals across page templates, diagnose LCP, INP, and CLS regressions, and drive prioritized actions with engineering.
  • Lead technical SEO for migrations, rebrands, domain consolidations, and content deprecations including redirect mapping, pre-launch QA, and post-launch monitoring.
  • Own the structured data roadmap: audit coverage, prioritize by opportunity, and ship in phases.
  • Build and maintain the entity model that connects our brand, products, people, and content into something a machine can resolve unambiguously.
  • Make sure content hierarchy, markup, and metadata express what a page is actually about to both to search engines and to the retrieval layers behind AI-generated answers.
  • Own hreflang, canonical strategy, and localized site structure across languages and regions.
  • Diagnose and resolve cross-locale cannibalization and duplication.
  • Build our approach to visibility in AI-assisted search: how we are found, understood, cited, and represented in AI-generated answers.

Requirements

  • 5+ years in SEO, with the majority of that time in technical SEO.
  • Demonstrated ownership of technical SEO for a large, complex website with thousands of pages or more, with multiple templates and stakeholders.
  • Hands-on fluency with Google Search Console, an enterprise crawler (Screaming Frog, Botify, Lumar, or similar), and a web analytics platform.
  • Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and HTTP — enough to read a page's source, understand how it renders, and explain what needs to change.
  • Practical command of structured data and schema implementation.
  • Direct experience driving technical work through an engineering team, including writing tickets and specifications engineers can act on.
  • Experience diagnosing and remediating Core Web Vitals and page performance issues.
  • Evidence of work on AI or generative search visibility, or a clearly articulated point of view on how it changes technical SEO practice.
  • Clear written communication. You will spend a lot of time writing things other teams act on.

Preferred

  • Technical SEO experience in enterprise B2B or SaaS, where the conversion is a pipeline event rather than a transaction.
  • International SEO at scale: hreflang, multi-locale architecture, and working alongside a localization function.
  • Experience leading SEO through a large site migration, rebrand, or domain consolidation.
  • Log file analysis, and comfort querying search data at scale (BigQuery, SQL, or the Search Console API).
  • Scripting for automation and analysis (Python or similar).
  • Experience embedding SEO requirements into CMS templates and components, so that fixes apply at the template level rather than page by page.
  • Familiarity with web engineering workflows.

Benefits

  • 35 paid days off: 15 days of PTO, 5 wellness days, 12 holiday closures, and New Year Recharge January 4th -6th
  • Unlimited sick days
  • 6 weeks parental leave for all parents, with an additional 6-8 weeks for birthing parents. Parents can also take advantage of our 4 week part-time transition period back to work.
  • Wellness reimbursement: $300 per quarter for wellness activities including gym memberships, massages, workout equipment, supplements, and much more.
  • Generous 401(k) match
  • Amazing QGroup Communities; MOSAIQ, Green Team, Qualtrics Pride, Q&Able, Qualtrics Salute, and Women’s Leadership Development, which exist as places for support, allyship, and advocacy.
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Qualtrics

3.4 Glassdoor

At Qualtrics, we create software the world’s best brands use to deliver exceptional frontline experiences, build high-performing teams, and design products people love. But we are more than a platform—we are the creators and stewards of the Experience Management category serving over 19,000 clients globally. Building a category takes grit, determination, and a disdain for convention—but most of all it requires close-knit, high-functioning teams with an unwavering dedication to serving our customers. That’s where we come in. Founded in 2002, our company has spent over 21 years working with the industries that impact you every day. From retail to government to healthcare, we’ve been on a mission to bring humanity, connection, and empathy back to business. It’s a mission that thousands of Qualtricians across the globe think is work worth doing.Mission: At Qualtrics, our mission is to build technology that closes experience gaps.

Founded in 2002
USA
6.1K employees (265 in marketing)
53% recommend to a friend
37% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$91K/yr – $111K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

SEO median pay in the United States

$85K/yr

Most pay falls between $68K and $110K. Based on 1,751 salaries.

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Funding

Total Funding
$1.4B
Last Raise
$1B
Debt Financing, 3 years ago

Funding History

  • Jun 2023
    Debt Financing • $1B
  • Jun 2023
    Private Equity
  • Apr 2017
    Series C • $180M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
78.9M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$687.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
8.3%
Direct
68.9%
Referral
21.4%
Social
0.4%
Paid
0.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~6.1K
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Technical SEO Specialist

Qualtrics · Reston, VA · Hybrid