Salary: Highly Competitive
Start Date: June/July 2021
About the role
As part of the marketing technology consulting team, you will:
- Develop best practise technical strategies and innovative solutions.
- Use data engineering techniques to leverage data at scale (terabytes).
- Identify, recommend, and prioritise solutions for technical issues that could affect organic search performance or security.
- Manage timelines, expectations, and deliverables.
- Nurture and develop client relationships.
Within Merj, you’ll be leading clients and take ownership of strategy, with your work having a positive impact on our core business; helping to drive growth both for clients and Merj.
As teamwork is such a large part of our company, you’ll be sharing and receiving knowledge and experiences in the form of training, research, and development.
About You
Skills & Experience
You should be able to demonstrate or have experience in the following:
- Over five years working in digital marketing while working on organic search projects.
- Experience with at least one scripting language such as Python, Ruby or R.
- Experience with databases with SQL.
- Experience working with developers and other digital marketers where you have led increases in important metrics (such as revenue, users, visibility etc).
- Strong knowledge of all elements of search optimisation: on-page, off-site, and technical.
- Ability to balance technical SEO tasks versus user experience.
- Familiarity with SEO tools such as Deep Crawl, Botify, Screaming Frog, Google Search Console, seoClarity, AHREFS, and SEMrush.
- Experience with Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, Omniture/SiteCatalyst and other analytics platforms.
- Experience with at least two different content management systems (off-the-shelf or bespoke). You should also understand the benefits and drawbacks of each.
Personal Skills & Interests
- A high standard of written and spoken English is important (fluent or native).
- You should be comfortable in challenging yourself, asking for feedback, and acting on it.
- The ability to hold yourself accountable for delivery on client commitments is important.
- Be ready to empathise with your team and earn your clients' trust.
- You should enjoy working with large amounts of data and be able to draw and implement conclusions from your analysis.
- A want to optimise workflows to reduce repetitive tasks while being resourceful and adaptable is important. Sometimes, you might have to make use of limited resources.
- You should have a genuine curiosity for how things work and treat every challenge is an opportunity to grow.
Bonus skills
Any of the following would be very beneficial:
- Excellent written and verbal communication in a second language.
- Experience in writing for reputable digital journals.
- Contributed to Open Source projects.
- Web coding experience in HTML and CSS.
- Knowledge of one or more of the following programming: JavaScript, PHP, Go, C, Java, Scala, Forth.
- Knowledge of AWS Cloud and Apache Foundation (Spark, Hadoop, etc).
- Knowledge of orchestration such as Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform.
- Knowledge of server operating systems such as OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Ubuntu or GNU/Linux.
Requirements
- You must be eligible to work or contract in the UK.
Want to apply?
Please send your CV and a covering letter to jobs@merj.com. Could this job be suitable for someone else? Help them find a new great place to work.