Senior Specialist, Domain Governance

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We are seeking a Senior Specialist Domain Governance to lead and scale our companys global domain governance and rationalization strategy across digital properties. This role is critical in ensuring a secure compliant and optimized domain ecosystem enabling improved user experience SEO performance cost efficiency and digital scalability. Join our team and support the organizations transition from a fragmented multi-domain landscape toward a governed authority-led domain model that improves SEO GEO/AI discoverability regulatory consistency operational efficiency and long-term digital trust.

• Define and maintain the enterprise domain governance framework including policies standards and lifecycle management.
• Support domain consolidation and rationalization initiatives reducing fragmentation and improving scalability.
• Ensure consistent domain naming ownership and alignment with enterprise digital strategy.
• Oversee end-to-end domain lifecycle processes.
• Maintain centralized visibility into domain inventory ownership and usage across markets.
• Partner with stakeholders to ensure accurate domain classification.
• Ensure domain portfolio complies with our company security privacy legal and regulatory standards.
• Ensure domain governance accounts for healthcare/pharma regulatory requirements audience segmentation gated versus public content market-level rules and privacy obligations.
• Support audits compliance reviews and governance reporting for domain-related controls.
• Define domain governance KPIs such as domain reduction exception rate migration success redirect error rate crawl health SEO/GEO visibility governance SLA and compliance remediation status.
• Create dashboards scorecards and governance reports for leadership product teams and market stakeholders.
• Continuously improve domain standards based on search performance AI discoverability insights regulatory changes platform evolution and market feedback.

Required

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems Digital Marketing Data Analytics or a related field.
• 8 years of experience in digital governance web operations IT governance or related roles.
• Strong understanding of domain management DNS hosting and web platform ecosystems.
• Experience working in global cross-functional environments.
• Ability to manage complex portfolios and governance frameworks at scale.
• Familiarity with security compliance and risk management practices.
• Ability to balance governance with business agility.
• Structured detail-oriented and process-driven mindset.
• Proactive ownership-oriented and solution-focused.

Preferred

• Experience in domain optimization or large-scale digital transformation initiatives.
• Exposure to pharmaceutical healthcare or other regulated industries.
• Understanding of SEO implications of domain strategy and migrations.
• Experience with enterprise web platforms (e.g. WordPress VIP AEM).
• Experience working with Security Privacy and Legal teams.

What we offer

• Exciting work in a great team global projects international environment
• Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally
• Hybrid working model flexible role pattern
• Competitive salary & incentive pay
• Pension and health insurance contributions
• Internal reward system and referral scheme
• 5 weeks annual leave5sick days15days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities12weeks of parental contribution
• Cafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers sport culture health travel etc.) Multisport Card
• Vodafone Raiffeisen Bank Foodora and discount programmes
• Up-to-date laptop and iPhone
• Parking in the garage showers refreshments massage chairs library music corner

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