Technical Search Director - Croud

SHREWSBURY, UK (Hybrid Working - 3 days in the office per week) A benchmarked salary between £53,220 to £60,720 . Your salary level is determined by skills and experience within our progression framework.

RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Technical SEO & New-Age Search Strategy

Advanced Web Auditing: Lead end-to-end technical site audits, identifying structural obstacles, rendering issues, and optimisation opportunities to enhance site usability, speed, and indexing efficiency. With experience with Apache configuration files (redirects) and knowledge of CLI (command-line interface) tools.

Next-Gen Search Optimisation: Architect technical strategies tailored for modern search ecosystems, ensuring client websites are optimised for crawlability, accessibility, and content extraction across traditional search, AI summaries, and generative AI chat experiences.

Semantic & Structural Design: Oversee structured data schema implementation, semantic HTML, site architecture, and rendering optimisation (client-side, server-side, dynamic rendering) to maximise machine understanding.

Performance & Core Web Vitals: Oversee front-end web performance analysis, leveraging tools like Chrome DevTools, Lighthouse, PageSpeed Insights, and WebPageTest to drive Core Web Vitals compliance.

2. Developer Engagement & Execution

Actionable Ticketing: Translate complex technical audit findings into clear, digestible, developer-ready specifications and tickets (e.g. Jira, Azure DevOps) that client engineering teams can seamlessly implement.

Developer Advocacy: Work directly with client web developers, frontend engineers, and technical architects to communicate requirements, align on standards (W3C, WCAG), and validate implemented fixes.

Front-End & Code Expertise: Apply strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to debug complex front-end SEO issues, client-side frameworks, and DOM manipulation challenges.

3. Technical Project Leadership

Site Migrations: Serve as the senior lead on technically heavy projects, including site migrations, platform rebuilds, re-architectures, and international rollouts, protecting baseline traffic and mitigating operational risk.

Technical Roadmapping: Formulate and manage robust technical roadmaps for key accounts, scoping accurate effort requirements and resource allocation.

Escalation & Technical Resolution: Serve as the senior point of escalation for complex technical issues, indexing emergencies, or performance drops across the Organic client portfolio.

4. Proposition Operationalisation & Innovation