Junior SEO Specialist (E-commerce)

About us

We operate a subscription e-commerce site selling coffee, tea and brewing gear, shipped from our own warehouse. Built and run from Baltimore, the site connects pet owners with local sitters and dog walkers. We started in 2012 and have grown to about 110 people. Product reviews happen on Thursdays, with demos of whatever shipped that week.

The role

We are creating this position because the workload has grown. The Junior SEO Specialist (E-commerce) owns organic search performance for our main website, about 4,000 indexed pages. You will work with writers, web developers and the paid search team every week. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in the US. Most of our work is async, and meetings are kept short.

What you'll work on

• Train writers and marketers on SEO basics.
• Work with developers on Core Web Vitals, redirects, canonical tags and structured data.
• Research keywords and build content briefs for writers.
• Report monthly on organic traffic, rankings and conversions.
• Investigate traffic drops after algorithm updates or site releases.
• Review new pages and site migrations for SEO issues before launch.

Requirements

• 1-2 years of hands-on SEO work, in-house or at an agency.
• Understanding of HTML, canonicals, hreflang, schema markup and redirects.
• Clear writer who can produce a usable content brief.
• Proficient with Ahrefs, Semrush or Moz.
• Daily experience with Google Search Console and GA4.
• Able to show traffic results from past projects.

Preferred qualifications

• Local SEO for multi-location businesses.
• Experience with a site migration.

Benefits

Starting pay: $50,000 to $59,000 a year, depending on experience and certifications.

• Health insurance.
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%.
• 11 paid holidays.

Interview process: a phone call, a meeting with the hiring manager, and a final conversation with the team.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Thomas Online.