SEO Supervisor

Vivid Seats is the fastest-growing online marketplace for sports, theatre, and concert tickets. We are dedicated to providing our customers with the best ticket buying experience in the industry.

Vivid Seats is seeking a smart, creative, and data-driven SEO Supervisor to join the team. The successful candidate will be a master of content optimization—helping searchers find Vivid Seats when we’re relevant to their search. Primary responsibility will be to manage all on-page optimization decisions to drive organic traffic and sales. Role requires excellent project management skills to address a wide breadth of keywords and associated keyword research across a rapidly changing event calendar. The Manager will manage and mentor junior staff and collaborate with colleagues in dedicated outreach and content teams.

• Perform keyword research to understand search behavior of ticket purchasers
• Review on-page attributes and ensure the page is both relevant to what searchers are looking for and considered relevant by search engines
• Perform competitive research, page audits, and action plans using a variety of tools and data sources
• Regularly monitor performance and report results to colleagues and leadership
• Maintain log of major optimizations and events that could affect organic search traffic
• Troubleshoot when rankings and traffic may be sub-optimal, going beyond best practices to understand how search engines and users interact with content and fixing the on-page and off-page elements of the content until site is user and search-engine friendly
• Evaluate equity of existing links and identify gaps and opportunities to add quality organic links to top events
• Collaborate with dedicated content and outreach teams to achieve performance objectives

• Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, English, Journalism, Communication or related discipline
• 5+ years of professional experience demonstrating success in increasing natural search visibility and doing product and/or project management in-house or for an agency
• MBA preferred
• Excellent organization, communication, and project management skills with a fanatical attention to detail
• Have a working knowledge of leading Web Analytics and SEO tools
• Ideally have working knowledge of HTML, CSS, Java Script and Flash
• Be fluent in Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, etc.
• Experience working in ecommerce is a plus
• Interest and familiarity with sports, concerts, and all live entertainment