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The Athletic

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Media • Sports

The Athletic is a sports media company known for comprehensive sports coverage and in-depth reporting across various sports such as football, tennis, Formula 1, golf, MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, and college sports. It provides high-quality articles, live updates, and expert analysis covering significant events and players in the sports world. The platform features content on various leagues and tournaments, providing insights from well-known journalists and analysts. The Athletic aims to set the standard in sports reporting and offers subscription-based access to its content.

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2016

📱 Media

⚽ Sports

📋 Description

• Influence and direct strategic search projects in partnership with the editorial SEO team, the Audience team, and the Product organization (including Product and Engineering leadership). • Lead on analyzing SEO performance metrics, translating complex data into actionable insights and continuous strategic adjustments. • Establish the prioritization framework of SEO initiatives by evaluating potential impact and business value against the required effort to ensure focus on the highest-value work. • Oversee and conduct continuous technical audits; identifying enhancements, bugs, and fixes, and filing them in JIRA. • Ensure product compliance to web performance standards, including Core Web Vitals, Time to First Byte (TTFB), and accessibility guidelines, driving accountability across Engineering teams. • Analyze traffic abnormalities and fluctuations, providing real-time debugging, auditing, and diagnosing. • Monitor and benchmark competitors in the sports news space, looking at different technical aspects of their site for insights and inspiration. • Develop and deliver ongoing technical SEO training programs, and establish technical standards and best practices for cross-functional teams. • Maintain a strong understanding of Google's search ecosystem, proactively staying informed about the latest algorithm updates, bugs, new requirements, and features. • Build familiarity with new technologies and platforms, including AI search engines, to inform product strategy.

🎯 Requirements

• Must have 4+ years of technical SEO experience. • 2+ years demonstrated experience working with product and engineering teams. • Experience managing multiple work streams. • An understanding of current technical search best practices and the implementation details to achieve them. • Experience communicating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and helping to weigh the impact of technical SEO work on UX and Audience. • Experience using multiple industry-leading SEO tools (Google Search Console, Screaming Frog, Botify, Ahrefs, etc.). • Comprehension of Schema.org, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, HTTP status codes, and web standards.

🏖️ Benefits

• Highly competitive, employer-contributed medical, dental, vision, basic life and disability insurance plans. • Savings accounts for medical, wellness, and childcare expenses. • 401k retirement savings plan and employer match. • Paid time off including paid sick leave, 12 paid holidays, 15 days of accrued vacation to start, and up to 20 weeks of Paid Parental Leave. • Our global benefits packages offer similar benefits and perks, competitive to the local market.