Permanent, full-time, hybrid (3 days per week in an office) #LI-Hybrid #LI-MH1

Job purpose 

• Innovate and help drive all SEO activities for the regions you will be managing to improve key metrics and deliver outstanding ROI.

General Duties 

• Own each assigned SEO task from inception to reporting of results (FOREX.com JP and FOREX.com ROW). 
• Managing, training and supporting team members. 
• Optimize all facets of SEO for your region(s) to drive maximum organic growth. 
• Be a technical SEO evangelist by directing and managing all on-site audits and implementations to ensure SEO best practices are adhered to (e.g. CWV, structured data, etc.). 
• Proactively keep on top of industry news, search engine updates and industry trends. 
• Share useful insights with the team to ensure the company is at the forefront of SEO innovation. 
• Report to senior stakeholders to highlight return on investment and progress achieved on KPIs. 
• Leverage, create and contribute to content strategies to maximise SEO growth.s 
• Ensure content and technical SEO considerations are always taken into account. 
• Help internal teams to better understand search engines and help them drive organic growth.  
• Working closely with internal/external teams and regional offices to identify commercial SEO growth areas and ensure SEO is prioritised.  
• Be an SEO evangelist within the company by showing how SEO can help drive conversions.  
• Working with APAC SEO team lead to define the regional strategy and deliver outstanding ROI. 
• Undertaking backlink audits & collaborating toward/managing white-hat link building campaigns. 
• Liaising with external service vendor and internal financial teams to process invoices. 

Knowledge and Experience 

• Native Japanese, fluent in English. 
• International SEO experience 

• Japan online search market experience is mandatory (cross-channel experience would be an advantage). 
• Working on global domain(s) with multiple websites for different regions/languages that receive traffic from multiple search engines. 

• CMS editing or website development experience is desired, e.g. WordPress. 
• Experience in content creation or general copywriting for marketing purpose (Japanese only). 
• ASO experience is an advantage. 
• Experience in working with teams across different time zones.   
• Experience / knowledge of FX / CFD trading and/or investing would be an advantage. 
• Working experience in a regulated financial company would be an advantage. 
• Good experience working with industry tools: GA, Semrush, Majestic, Screaming Frog, etc.. 
• Good knowledge about ranking signals and technical SEO. 
• Experience in managing and executing modern white-hat link-building strategies. 
• Knowledge around important SEO verticals and rich results: news, video, GMB, etc.  
• Good overall understanding of how content impacts SEO efforts and how to optimize it for target audiences. 

Qualification and Skills 

• ROI orientated approach to task prioritisation. 
• Agile working approach to effectively manage tasks that are influenced by fluid financial market movements. 
• Good understanding of Power BI reporting and web analytics.