Senior Technical SEO Specialist 12 Month FTC @NET-A-PORTER @MR PORTER

Description

The company is a digital luxury group with two fashion brands, one for women and one for men, both built around curated collections.

The SEO team is hiring a Senior SEO Migration Specialist on a 12-month fixed-term contract.

You will help lead a major CMS migration across both brands, working with SEO leadership and engineers to protect organic search performance through redirect mapping, technical testing and launch checks.

Responsibilities

• Map 301 redirects for URL sets numbering in the hundreds of thousands, across international storefronts, to keep organic visibility and link equity intact.
• Specify and check technical SEO requirements such as canonical tags, hreflang, XML sitemaps, robots.txt and structured data.
• Draft precise, developer-ready Jira tickets and technical specifications with clear acceptance criteria, and help engineers build them correctly.
• Run detailed staging audits and technical QA with Screaming Frog and enterprise crawlers, fixing problems before launch.
• Monitor redirects, crawl errors, indexation and organic performance during and after launch.
• Use Excel, Google Sheets or SQL to analyse large URL datasets, validate mappings and find technical faults.
• Find ways to automate SEO work with Python, scripts or AI tools to improve speed and accuracy.

Requirements

• 5+ years of technical SEO experience, including hands-on work on complex enterprise website migrations.
• Solid experience with large-scale redirect mapping, URL architecture and international e-commerce SEO.
• Advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills.
• Working knowledge of Screaming Frog and enterprise SEO tools such as OnCrawl, Botify or Deepcrawl, plus log analysis and Google Search Console.
• In-depth understanding of rendering, HTTP status codes, canonicalisation, hreflang and Core Web Vitals.
• Proven record of writing technical specifications and Jira tickets with clear acceptance criteria.
• Detail-oriented, proactive problem solver who manages tight deadlines and works well with others.
• Advantageous: SQL experience for managing large datasets.
• Advantageous: experience with Python, AI automation, headless CMS, Next.js/React, or platforms such as Salesforce Commerce Cloud, commercetools or Bloomreach.

Conditions

Sits in the SEO department and reports to the SEO and GEO Manager.

12-month fixed-term contract.

37.5 hours per week, with 4 days in the office and 1 day at home.

Hybrid workplace.

Associate experience level.

Competitive salary.

The company is an equal opportunities employer and considers every application regardless of race, religion, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation or any other legally protected characteristic.

Benefits

• Pension that you and the company both contribute to.
• Access to a portal with discounts, including theme park and cinema tickets.
• Staff discount and exclusive staff sales.
• Private healthcare.
• Flexible working.