Technical SEO Manager

Fortune is a global leader in business journalism, renowned for its iconic rankings, conferences, and award-winning editorial coverage. We are seeking a Technical SEO Manager to lead critical initiatives that expand our organic search presence across news-driven and evergreen content while future-proofing our strategy against traditional and AI-powered search engines (e.g., Google, ChatGPT, Perplexity).

The Technical SEO Manager will architect and execute strategies to grow Fortune’s organic search visibility, optimize site performance, and build a defensible SEO strategy that leverages authority, adaptability, and technical excellence. This role requires balancing news SEO (Google Discover, trending topics) with evergreen content optimization while leading high-impact projects to future-proof Fortune against AI-driven search disruptions.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner on a taxonomy overhaul to streamline site architecture, improve content discoverability, and align with user intent and AI’s contextual understanding.

• Monitor and review Core Web Vitals (CWV) and page speed performance scores and failures to meet AI crawlers’ demand for fast, clean sites.

• Provide direction for consolidating and optimizing XML sitemaps to prioritize high-value content and resolve crawl inefficiencies.

• Provide strategy for expanding schema markup (e.g., Article, Q&A, How-To, Paywall, Video) to enhance visibility in traditional SERPs and AI-generated summaries.

• Audit and improve metadata (title tags, meta descriptions) and sitelinks to boost CTR and keyword rankings.

• Strengthen Fortune’s Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness (E-E-A-T) signals by optimizing bylined content, original research, and backlinks from high-authority domains.

• Adapt strategies for AI agents like ChatGPT by using entity-based keywords and natural language patterns.

• Collaborate with product managers and developers to implement SEO-friendly templates, plugins (e.g., Yoast), and custom fields.

• Troubleshoot technical issues related to rendering, indexing, and mobile responsiveness on WordPress. Determine strategy and best practices for WP categorization such as Tags, Packages, and Topics.

• Ensure seamless integration of SEO best practices into content publishing workflows.

• Develop internal recirculation strategy and logic to increase pageviews per session and reduce bounce rates.

• Partner with editorial teams to align content production with SEO opportunities, including pillar-cluster models for AI-driven topical authority.

• Advise product/engineering teams on technical requirements for AI-ready site migrations, CMS updates, or new features.

• Report on KPIs (organic traffic, impressions, rankings) and AI-specific metrics (e.g., citations in AI summaries) to stakeholders.

Required

• 5+ years of hands-on technical SEO experience, preferably in media or publishing.

• Proven track record in optimizing Google Discover/News traffic and evergreen content performance.

• Advanced proficiency with tools:

• Crawlers: Screaming Frog

• Analytics: Google Search Console, GA4, Looker & Looker Studio

• Performance: Lighthouse, PageSpeed Insights

• Strong knowledge of HTML/CSS, JavaScript, and schema markup.

• Familiarity with AI-driven SEO tools (e.g., BrightEdge, Botify, Ahrefs).

• Background in news/media SEO, including coverage of breaking news and real-time trends.

Total Compensation Ranges (base salary & bonus):

$130,000.00 - $150,000.00 inclusive of a discretionary annual bonus

About Fortune:

At Fortune Media, our mission is to change the world by making business better. We achieve that by providing trusted information, great storytelling, rigorous benchmarking and world-class community building. And our key values are humility, ownership, and transparency. 

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