SEO Specialist

Location: Auckland, New Zealand (preferred; open to candidates outside NZ with remote trial)

Salary: Negotiable based on experience

Job Title: SEO Specialist

About EC Markets:

EC Markets is a globally recognized and regulated forex broker, committed to providing traders with innovative trading solutions, industry-leading platforms, and world-class support. With a growing presence in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Australia, and now Latin America, EC Markets is expanding to better serve and support clients in the LATAM region.

About the Role:

The SEO Specialist will be responsible for ensuring that our websites are technically optimized for search engines and that our content team is supported with clear, data-driven SEO guidance. This role works closely with SEO writers, developers, and marketing stakeholders to identify opportunities, diagnose technical issues, and implement improvements that drive sustainable organic traffic growth.

Responsibilities:

• Lead keyword research to support SEO writers in planning and prioritizing content.
• Build and maintain keyword maps that connect target keywords to specific pages or content clusters.
• Provide clear SEO briefs for writers, including primary/secondary keywords, search intent, and on-page recommendations (e.g., titles, headings, meta descriptions, internal links).
• Diagnose and resolve technical SEO issues, such as indexation, crawl budget, site speed, structured data, canonical tags, hreflang, redirects, and XML sitemaps.
• Regularly audit website health using SEO tools and create simple, action-oriented reports for non-technical stakeholders.
• Monitor search performance (e.g., rankings, clicks, impressions, CTR) for key pages and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Ensure our websites follow SEO best practices for site architecture, internal linking, mobile-friendliness, and Core Web Vitals.
• Work with developers to implement technical fixes, provide clear tickets and test cases, and verify that changes are correctly deployed.
• Collaborate with the broader marketing team on campaigns to ensure landing pages and funnels are search-friendly and technically sound.
• Stay up to date with major search engine updates and communicate relevant changes and risks to the team.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience in SEO, with a focus on technical SEO and on-page optimization.
• Solid understanding of how search engines crawl, index, and rank websites.
• Practical experience using key SEO tools (e.g. Google Search Console, Google Analytics/GA4, SEMrush).
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, basic JavaScript behavior, and how these impact SEO.
• Experience working with CMS platforms (e.g. WordPress) and understanding of how to implement SEO recommendations within them.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to translate data into clear, simple recommendations.
• Good communication skills, able to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• English reading ability sufficient to use global SEO resources and tools; additional language skills are a plus.

What We Offer:

• Competitive base salary + performance-based commissions.
• Career growth opportunities in a dynamic and multicultural environment.
• Role is open to candidates outside New Zealand. If you do not hold a valid New Zealand work visa, we will initially assess your performance through a remote working arrangement. For those based in Auckland, we may invite you for an in‑person interview as part of the process. Salary is negotiable based on your experience and location.