Technical SEO Consultant

Title: Technical SEO Consultant

Duration: Starts ASAP, will run 3-4 months leading up to website launch in mid February

Hours per week: 40

Location: On site in Scottsdale, AZ

Overview

Our ecommerce/wholesale client is looking for an experienced SEO Consultant to support their web development team during a website migration to Salesforce. This person will identify technical SEO issues, recommend solutions, work closely with developers, and help prepare the website for the upcoming Salesforce implementation.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform technical SEO audits and identify issues affecting search performance.
• Support SEO planning for an upcoming Salesforce launch.
• Prioritize SEO projects based on business impact and urgency.
• Translate SEO recommendations into clear requirements for developers.
• Partner with development teams to troubleshoot and resolve SEO issues.
• Work with content and merchandising teams to improve organic search performance.
• Analyze website traffic, rankings, and technical SEO health.
• Ensure SEO best practices are followed during site updates and platform changes.
• Present findings and recommendations to stakeholders in a business-friendly way.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical SEO experience.
• Strong ability to independently identify SEO problems and recommend solutions.
• Experience creating technical requirements for developers.
• Deep knowledge of:
• Crawling and indexing
• Site architecture
• Core Web Vitals and site performance
• Structured data and schema markup
• Canonical tags
• XML sitemaps
• Robots.txt
• Experience with tools such as: Screaming Frog, SEMRush, Google Tag Manager, Google Search Console, Google Analytics, Ahrefs
• Strong analytical, organization, and prioritization skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience supporting website migrations or platform implementations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Salesforce Experience Cloud, or related Salesforce platforms.
• Ecommerce or retail industry experience.

Ideal Candidate

• Hands-on technical SEO expert.
• Comfortable working directly with developers.
• Able to prioritize competing initiatives.
• Strong communicator who can explain technical concepts to business stakeholders.
• Experienced in website migrations and large-scale platform changes.