[Remote] Senior Technical SEO Specialist

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Motive is hiring a Senior Technical SEO Specialist to lead its technical SEO program and strengthen the technical health and structure of its web presence. The role covers site audits, AI-search readiness, international SEO, page and template optimization, and SEO requirements for launches, in partnership with web, engineering, content, and marketing teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead execution for Motive's technical SEO program, conducting recurring audits covering crawlability, indexation, rendering, redirects, canonical tags, internal link structures, structured data, and page quality
• Use and help improve AI-assisted workflows that turn crawl and search performance data into a clear, prioritized list of fixes, with human judgment applied before anything ships
• Make sure priority pages can be accessed, understood, and cited by AI answer engines, covering AI crawler access rules, server-side rendering of key content, structured data, entity signals, and page structure that's easy to extract
• Identify and resolve content cannibalization and duplication, working with Content and Web to consolidate, redirect, or differentiate pages so each topic has one clear page that ranks
• Partner with Web Engineering to improve site errors, warnings, and performance issues on key pages & templates, with recommendations tied to impact on traffic and conversion
• Optimize high-intent product, solution, and industry pages so they rank and convert on non-brand searches
• Improve information architecture, navigation, and internal linking so our pages connect cleanly and capture long-tail demand
• Drive technical SEO across our international sites, including hreflang, regional sitemaps, canonical strategy, and localized templates. Partner with regional marketing teams and native-language reviewers so localized pages reflect how local buyers actually search
• Define technical SEO requirements for new templates, page types, and CMS capabilities, and provide SEO QA for launches, migrations, and redesigns
• Turn findings into clear, engineering-ready requirements that explain what's wrong, why it matters, and how to fix it
• Act as the primary technical SEO partner for web and marketing stakeholders, and help non-technical partners understand trade-offs and impact

Skills

• 5+ years of technical SEO experience
• Bachelor's degree required
• Deep expertise in crawling, indexation, JavaScript SEO, sitemaps, canonicals, redirects, hreflang, internal linking, Core Web Vitals, performance, and mobile UX
• Experience scaling information architecture across category, product, long-tail, international, and localized pages
• Knowledge of schema.org/JSON-LD implementation and validation, plus diagnosing keyword cannibalization at scale
• Proven partnership with web and engineering teams to deliver technical fixes and measure impact on traffic, leads, and pipeline
• Experience applying AI or agentic workflows to automate SEO audits and recommendations with appropriate human oversight
• Strong understanding of AEO, generative search, crawler access, structured data, page architecture, algorithm updates, AI search features, and evolving SEO measurement
• Strong analytical skills with large crawl and search datasets; proficiency in Google Search Console, Semrush, Screaming Frog, log analyzers, and web analytics
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• The applicant must be authorized to receive and access those commodities and technologies controlled under U.S. Export Administration Regulations
• 5+ years of technical SEO experience, ideally in B2B SaaS or complex, multi-template environments

Benefits

• Health, pharmacy, optical and dental care benefits (subject to eligibility requirements)
• Paid time off (subject to eligibility requirements)
• Sick time off (subject to eligibility requirements)
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage (subject to eligibility requirements)
• Life insurance (subject to eligibility requirements)
• 401k contribution (subject to eligibility requirements)
• For certain roles, total compensation may include restricted stock units.
• Remote work (United States)

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