Senior Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Specialist - London, UK

Senior Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Specialist - London, UK

Duration:      Permanent

Location:      London, UK

Start:             ASAP

At the time of the local office opening, employees and managers will partner to determine the work site location in line with our Flexible working policy (Remote, Full time in office, Less than 50% in office, and More than 50% in office).

Meet the Product team

The Product team identifies the most meaningful customer problems to solve and opportunities to tackle, and then works collaboratively across business functions to identify, test, and launch the right solutions against those priorities—ultimately making it easier for our customers to find, attain, and use our amazing content. 

• We are in search of an experienced Senior SEO Specialist to implement the initiatives for one of our global brands. You will love the challenges of optimizing vast enterprise websites for search engine performance. You get a thrill out of partnering with cross-functional teams in order to develop and implement SEO initiatives. You thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where your passion for creative problem solving shines. You are curious, analytical and highly motivated to take your career to the next level.

• The ideal candidate will have extensive formal work experience in SEO, they have devised and participated in sophisticated projects and are able to work independently and part of a team to achieve revenue goals. This role will focus on advanced implementation of the SEO strategy for their assigned brand whilst mentoring more junior team members in implementation tasks. The role will require an individual who is able to effectively partner with technology, product, data science, analytics and other key team members. You will be well versed in partner management.

• Focus on international link development, acquire authoritative, relevant links.
• Partner with PR and social media to develop programs to acquire diverse quality links.
• Partner with SEO analyst to identify and solve for link opportunities.
• Develop and implement international inbound linking strategy.
• Develop and implement internal linking strategy.

• Demonstrate knowledge of crawling and indexation factors.
• Demonstrate knowledge of page rendering and load speed factors.
• Be able to clearly communicate technical requirements to both developer and non-technical stakeholders.
• Content Strategy.
• Work independently and with SEO analyst to perform advanced international keyword research using diverse data sets.
• Develop and implement content strategy, generating new content based on research, regional and merchandising needs.

• Work independently and with SEO analyst to perform advanced international keyword research using diverse data sets.
• Develop and implement content strategy, generating new content based on research, regional and merchandising needs.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Maths, Business or related field.
• 3+ years direct experience in search engine marketing or Web development.
• Shown ability to grow meaningful traffic by completing a successful content strategy.
• Experience in keyword research and competitive analysis.
• Excellent ability to partner with marketing, usability, program management, technology and other teams to affect on-site and off-site impact.
• Experience in developing and implementing link building strategies and tactics.
• Experience with international websites desirable.
• HTML, CSS, and JavaScript understanding.
• Experience with SQL or other databases and Python or other scripting languages, a plus.
• Splunk, Omniture or Google Analytics experience, preferred.
• Ability to create meaningful business reports and tell stories with data.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook).
• Excellent writing skills.

Benefits for qualifying employees at Getty Images  Private Medical Insurance (PMI)  Private Medical Insurance through Cigna is designed to give you access to medical care where and when you need it. The scheme covers the costs of private medical treatment for consultations, out-patient, in-patient and day-care treatment in accordance with the benefit limits and rules set out in the policy. All employees are automatically covered from the date they join. Individual cover is 100% Getty Images paid, and there is also the option to add your spouse and dependents to the policy at an additional cost.    Time off Work/life balance is important to us  In addition to public holidays, Getty Images offers 25 paid holidays per year.     Company Paid Holidays  Employees enjoy company-paid holidays for each of our global locations.    Life Assurance, Critical Illness and Income Protection  We automatically enroll all new employees in our risk coverage schemes, with Getty Images paying 100% of the cost. We provide you with Group Life Assurance (x4 salary), Critical Illness Cover (x1 salary) and Income Protection (75% salary).    Employee Assistance Programme  Our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) is provided by Health Assured. This is a free, confidential, service available to all employees 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year    Group Personal Pension (GPP)  Save for retirement with Aviva by making contributions consistently and conveniently through payroll deductions. Getty Images automatically enrolls all employees at 3% of your pay, with Getty Images contributing 5% of your pay. You have the option of increasing how much you contribute and benefit from tax and NI savings by contributing via salary sacrifice.    Learning & Growth  We value continuous learning and development to help everyone develop their skills. Enjoy mentorship, curated training & more.  __________________________ Who We Are: Getty Images is a preeminent global visual content creator and marketplace. Through Getty Images, iStock, and Unsplash, we offer a full range of content solutions to meet the needs of any customer—no matter their size—around the globe. Getty Images encompasses the largest and best path to market for visual creators through their premier brands including its core, Getty Images; iStock, a value offering of creative stills and videos providing a significant volume of exclusive content to small and medium-sized businesses; and Unsplash, a free offering of creative stills servicing the fast-growing and broad-based creator economy.  Help us move the world with images! Bringing award-winning imagery to everyone, Getty Images has customers in almost every country in the world, with websites in 23 languages, bringing the world’s best content to media outlets, advertising agencies and corporations, small businesses and increasingly, direct to consumers.   Getty Images works with over 516,000 contributors and image partners to provide comprehensive coverage of more than 160,000 news, sport, and entertainment events around the globe. With over 520 million assets, of which over 320 million are digitized, encompassing the latest global news, sports, celebrity, music and fashion coverage; exclusive conceptual creative images; and the world’s largest commercial archive. New content is added daily, with 8-10 million new assets added each quarter.   Getty Images offers the most exclusive and unique creative and editorial visual content globally. The breadth and quality of our content allow our customers and partners to tell their stories with greater creativity and accuracy, thereby eliciting more emotion and enabling more action. Getty Images moves the world —whether the goal is commercial or philanthropic, revenue-generating or society-changing, market-disrupting or headline-driving. Getty Images offers the highest quality and most diverse visual content, based on industry-leading expertise and innovation. Leadership Principles As a company, we're committed to living these Principles every day. Here's how we support our mission to be the best place to work globally. We are trustworthy, transparent, and honest We love character, authenticity, and integrity. We always raise the bar Excellence is our norm; we get better through endeavor, curiosity, and speed. We collectively bring solutions We love debate but collaborating to solve problems for ourselves and our customers is everyone’s responsibility. We care, are kind, courteous, and respectful We will not tolerate rudeness. We reject biased behavior and discrimination We seek to understand biases in all forms. We call out biases and discrimination when observed and take action where responsible. We are inclusive of different voices, perspectives, and experiences Diversity and inclusion are never done, but we are passionate in their pursuit. We are one Getty Images with no silos We share goals and accountability; we and actively seek information and expertise; we make time for our peers. We deliver on our commitments, and commercial goals With one voice and shared accountability. We put the customer at the heart of everything we do We listen to, anticipate, and exceed customer needs, adapting as they evolve. We celebrate our inclusive work environment and welcome members of all backgrounds and perspectives. Women, gender-nonbinary, people of color, LGBTQIA+ people, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.  Getty Images is committed to providing Reasonable Accommodations and will work with you to meet your needs. If you are a person with a disability and require assistance to search for a job opening or submitting an online application, please email RecruitingAccommodations@gettyimages.com. Visit Getty Images at www.gettyimages.com to learn more about how the company is advancing the unique ​​role of still and moving imagery in communication and business, and enabling creative ideas to come to life.    For company news and announcements, visit our Press Room, and for the stories and inspiration behind our content, visit Stories & Trends.   Find Getty Images on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Tumblr, or download the Getty Images app where you can explore, save and share the world's best imagery.    Getty Images is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. Getty Images believes that diversity is critical to our success in moving the world with images and is committed to creating an inclusive, mutually respectful environment that celebrates diversity. We seek to hire on the basis of merit, competence, performance, and business needs.

Benefits for qualifying employees at Getty Images 

Private Medical Insurance (PMI) 

Private Medical Insurance through Cigna is designed to give you access to medical care where and when you need it. The scheme covers the costs of private medical treatment for consultations, out-patient, in-patient and day-care treatment in accordance with the benefit limits and rules set out in the policy. All employees are automatically covered from the date they join. Individual cover is 100% Getty Images paid, and there is also the option to add your spouse and dependents to the policy at an additional cost. 

Time off Work/life balance is important to us 

In addition to public holidays, Getty Images offers 25 paid holidays per year.  

Company Paid Holidays 

Employees enjoy company-paid holidays for each of our global locations. 

Life Assurance, Critical Illness and Income Protection 

We automatically enroll all new employees in our risk coverage schemes, with Getty Images paying 100% of the cost. We provide you with Group Life Assurance (x4 salary), Critical Illness Cover (x1 salary) and Income Protection (75% salary). 

Employee Assistance Programme 

Our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) is provided by Health Assured. This is a free, confidential, service available to all employees 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year 

Group Personal Pension (GPP) 

Save for retirement with Aviva by making contributions consistently and conveniently through payroll deductions. Getty Images automatically enrolls all employees at 3% of your pay, with Getty Images contributing 5% of your pay. You have the option of increasing how much you contribute and benefit from tax and NI savings by contributing via salary sacrifice. 

Learning & Growth 

We value continuous learning and development to help everyone develop their skills. Enjoy mentorship, curated training & more. 

__________________________

Who We Are:

Getty Images is a preeminent global visual content creator and marketplace. Through Getty Images, iStock, and Unsplash, we offer a full range of content solutions to meet the needs of any customer—no matter their size—around the globe.

Getty Images encompasses the largest and best path to market for visual creators through their premier brands including its core, Getty Images; iStock, a value offering of creative stills and videos providing a significant volume of exclusive content to small and medium-sized businesses; and Unsplash, a free offering of creative stills servicing the fast-growing and broad-based creator economy. 

Help us move the world with images! Bringing award-winning imagery to everyone, Getty Images has customers in almost every country in the world, with websites in 23 languages, bringing the world’s best content to media outlets, advertising agencies and corporations, small businesses and increasingly, direct to consumers.

Getty Images works with over 516,000 contributors and image partners to provide comprehensive coverage of more than 160,000 news, sport, and entertainment events around the globe. With over 520 million assets, of which over 320 million are digitized, encompassing the latest global news, sports, celebrity, music and fashion coverage; exclusive conceptual creative images; and the world’s largest commercial archive. New content is added daily, with 8-10 million new assets added each quarter.

Getty Images offers the most exclusive and unique creative and editorial visual content globally. The breadth and quality of our content allow our customers and partners to tell their stories with greater creativity and accuracy, thereby eliciting more emotion and enabling more action. Getty Images moves the world —whether the goal is commercial or philanthropic, revenue-generating or society-changing, market-disrupting or headline-driving. Getty Images offers the highest quality and most diverse visual content, based on industry-leading expertise and innovation.

Leadership Principles

As a company, we're committed to living these Principles every day. Here's how we support our mission to be the best place to work globally.

We are trustworthy, transparent, and honest

We love character, authenticity, and integrity.

We always raise the bar

Excellence is our norm; we get better through endeavor, curiosity, and speed.

We collectively bring solutions

We love debate but collaborating to solve problems for ourselves and our customers is everyone’s responsibility.

We care, are kind, courteous, and respectful

We will not tolerate rudeness.

We reject biased behavior and discrimination

We seek to understand biases in all forms. We call out biases and discrimination when observed and take action where responsible.

We are inclusive of different voices, perspectives, and experiences

Diversity and inclusion are never done, but we are passionate in their pursuit.

We are one Getty Images with no silos

We share goals and accountability; we and actively seek information and expertise; we make time for our peers.

We deliver on our commitments, and commercial goals

With one voice and shared accountability.

We put the customer at the heart of everything we do

We listen to, anticipate, and exceed customer needs, adapting as they evolve.

We celebrate our inclusive work environment and welcome members of all backgrounds and perspectives. Women, gender-nonbinary, people of color, LGBTQIA+ people, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply. 

Getty Images is committed to providing Reasonable Accommodations and will work with you to meet your needs. If you are a person with a disability and require assistance to search for a job opening or submitting an online application, please email RecruitingAccommodations@gettyimages.com.

Visit Getty Images at www.gettyimages.com to learn more about how the company is advancing the unique ​​role of still and moving imagery in communication and business, and enabling creative ideas to come to life. 

For company news and announcements, visit our Press Room, and for the stories and inspiration behind our content, visit Stories & Trends.

Find Getty Images on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Tumblr, or download the Getty Images app where you can explore, save and share the world's best imagery. 

Getty Images is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. Getty Images believes that diversity is critical to our success in moving the world with images and is committed to creating an inclusive, mutually respectful environment that celebrates diversity. We seek to hire on the basis of merit, competence, performance, and business needs. 

There’s a story in every picture, a narrative in every frame. 

We believe in the power of visuals. As a leading visual content creator, our three brands–Getty Images, iStock, and Unsplash–offer a full range of content solutions to meet the needs of any customer, whatever their size, location, or budget. Whether the goal is commercial or philanthropic, revenue-generating or society-changing, market-disrupting or headline-driving, our visuals help any brand, business, or organization communicate more effectively with their target audience and urge them to action. In other words, we know how powerful an image or video can be—and that it can move the world. 

Working at Getty Images 

Our goal is to be one of the best places to work globally, which means we’re dedicated to providing experiences and resources that allow you to do your best work. Foundational to our culture are our Leadership Principles, which are the shared values that guide how we come together to do our work. We raise the bar and collectively bring solutions while exercising trust, transparency, and care. We actively reject biased behavior and are inclusive of different voices, perspectives, and experiences. We focus on our customers and deliver on our commitments and commercial goals. 

We foster a collaborative and supportive environment that prioritizes delivering results efficiently and using time wisely, so that all employees can achieve balance between commitments to the company and health and well-being in our lives. We value the importance of rest and recovery ranging from company-paid holidays to time away from work.

Getty Images Holdings, Inc. is a publicly traded company, and its common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "GETY". You may be eligible to participate in our employee Stock Purchase Plan, which allows employees to purchase company stock at a 15% discount to market. 

Our employees’ growth, development, belonging, and engagement are important investments. We offer learning experiences ranging from leadership development, diversity and inclusion training, mentoring programs, a high potential program, and professional and skills development. We prioritize staying connected in our hybrid-working world and encourage participation in global morale events and local gatherings, as well as finding community in one or more of our Employee Resource Groups. Learning about our business is paramount, and our open and transparent culture means you’ll have direct access to experts and senior leaders via open forums, all hands, and content hours. 

Getty Images believes that diversity is critical to our success in moving the world and is committed to creating an inclusive, mutually respectful environment that celebrates diversity. We seek to hire based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. Getty Images is an equal opportunity employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.