Senior SEO Editor
Senior SEO Editor
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Job Description
The Sun is the biggest news brand in the UK publishing hundreds of stories a day and reaching over 170m unique users digitally every month. Its exclusives set the news agenda and its campaigns have changed the lives of many. Delivering news entertainment and sports coverage to millions of readers every day. With a rich history spanning decades we are dedicated to providing accurate insightful and engaging content across print and digital platforms.
The Sun has a massmarket audience and aims to appeal to a diverse audience in the UK and beyond.
Your role: The Sun is looking for a talented individual to help lead the development of The Suns SEO strategy in a world of AI.
Day to day you will:
Help grow organic search Discover and Google News on all four of The Suns domains thesun / thesun / thescottishsun / thesun.ie
Optimise The Suns content for large language models
Help drive sign ups to The Sun Club (The Suns premium content offering)
Lead The Suns trending content output
Lead The Suns live blog strategy
Feed into The Suns forward planning meetings
Own the SEO strategy for specific sections
Analyse and report back to the newsroom on SEO successes and failures
Perform competitor analysis and identify opportunities to improve and overtake in key markets
Monitor algorithmic changes and developments and help recommend actions to relevant teams
Communicate with the newsroom on big breaking stories
Be a goto person for journalists and reporters seeking SEO advice
What were looking for from you:
Strong understanding of daily news trends as well as what is working longterm
Good relationships and strong communication with the different section heads
Be agile: Fastmoving and quick to flag emerging and declining trends
Ability to implement ideas and strategies to help overall traffic growth
Good understanding of SEO tools in the newsroom and ability to use them to maximum effect
Passion for news and digital journalism
Good team player
Some technical SEO knowledge would be a bonus
News UK is one of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times The Sunday Times The Sun The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT Times Radio and Virgin Radio UK and we have marketleading local stations across Ireland. Our worldfamous brands provide news analysis opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel audio and video events and experiences our multiformat brands are home to a plurality of opinion representing the diverse communities we serve. Driven by passion guided by principles and acting with purpose we exist to promote a fair society freedom of speech and a little bit of fun. Rethinking continually the business of storytelling we represent reflect and reach the nation telling the stories that matter.
Life at News
Driven by passion guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent reflect and reach the nation telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.
To do this we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individuals potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Equity and Inclusion Strategy which focuses on three main priorities attracting talent from a wider more representative pool developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have 12 employee led networks and groups that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.
Benefits
Some of our benefits include:
Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
Wide range of training available plus full LinkedIn Learning access
Private medical insurance including coverage for preexisting conditions
Discounted gym memberships free ClassPass at Home weekly virtual yoga classes
Bikes for Work and Electric Car scheme
Access to exclusive events Up to 60 discount on Harper Collins books and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP physio/massage and counselling
A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5
30 days holiday plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year
We want to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or for us to do anything differently to support you apply for any of our roles please contact us on emailprotected.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
