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Hours Full-time, Part-time
Location Atlanta, GA
Atlanta, Georgia

About this job

POSITION PURPOSE

The SEO Content Strategist is responsible for the ideation & creation of digital content including copy writing. This position plays a key role in increasing Global Custom Commerce s search engine presence & position by strategically developing content that achieves specific SEO goals. The SEO Content Strategist will collaborate with various internal teams to ensure content is accurate & comprehensive. The individual will own the entire content life cycle - researching, planning, writing, editing, and publishing - following SEO & UX best practices. This role may involve working with outside agencies to help support content creation efforts.

Why work here?

Our entrepreneurial roots and maverick mentality, coupled with the resources and backing of the #1 home improvement retailer in the world, The Home Depot, is a unique opportunity for you to be a transformative retail disrupter. Plus, GCC is the world’s largest online window covering company, and we’ve got a demonstrably awesome 20-year track record. From our open-floor office to our open-door ethos, our culture is rooted in improving, evolving, and having fun (we’re pretty serious about cake, cook-offs, ping pong, meaningful work and exciting projects). Most importantly, our team members are always inspired, engaged, and ready for growth.

That means you’ll have the resources and the runway to create truly magical, out-of-the-box work. Moreover, you will play an important role in leveraging our culture, people, systems, processes, and technology — ultimately to provide incredible customer experiences, while growing business for GCC and The Home Depot. This is your chance to be part of something big, in a small start-up environment.

We’re ranked as one of The Top 5 Workplaces in Texas and have consistently won the following awards: The Best Place to Work in Houston (Houston Business Journal), Houston’s Top Workplaces (Houston Chronicle) and Houston’s Best and Brightest.

MAJOR TASKS, RESPONSIBILITES AND KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

50%- Digital content creation: Write new content ensuring style, quality, & tone are consistent and on-brand. For each content piece, you will implement SEO best practices such as leveraging semantically related keywords, implementing proper headers, and optimizing page structure for featured snippets.
15%- Digital content ideation: Conduct competitor analyses, content audits, & content gap analyses. Work with various internal teams to finalize content form, objectives, & components.
15%- Project management: Lead and oversee all efforts to create, design, code, & publish content ? collaborating with both internal teams and outside agencies.
10%- Video optimization: Ensure SEO best practices are applied to all videos including, but not limited to, titles, descriptions, transcripts, and schema markup.
10%- Blog optimization: Ensure SEO best practices are applied to all blog posts including, but not limited to, titles, descriptions, and schema markup.

NATURE AND SCOPE

This position reports to the GCC VP of Marketing.
This position has no direct reports.

ENVIRONMENTAL JOB REQUIREMENTS

Environment:
Typically in a comfortable environment but with regular exposure to factors such as temperature extremes, moving machinery, loud noise, and fumes which cause noticeable discomfort or a moderate risk of accident or illness.

Travel:
Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Must be eighteen years of age or older.
Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Education Required:

The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Years of Relevant Work Experience: 3 years

Physical Requirements:

Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Preferred Qualifications:

E commerce experience
Experience with project management tools
Experience with SEO reporting tools and platforms such as Google Webmaster Tools, BrightEdge, & Conductor Searchlight

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Competencies:
  • Experience creating digital content including copywriting 
  • Strong grammar skills 
  • Experience setting up & publishing digital content within a CMS platform 
  • Experience implementing white-hat SEO tactics 
  • Solid understanding of UX, & content marketing best practices 
  • Stay up to date with developing SEO & marketing trends 
  • Project management experience with web-based projects 
  • Passionate about creative work and thinking outside-the-box 
  • Strategic problem solving skills 
  • Team oriented; ability to partner with internal teams to create collaborative content 
  • Experience with Microsoft Office programs: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook