Junior SEO Specialist [Portugal]

We’re looking for a hands-on, growth-oriented Junior SEO Specialist to join our in-house Organic Marketing team. This role involves technical, on-page, content, keyword research, link building, and AI search readiness across 30+ market sites. The position offers growth opportunities and direct collaboration with senior leadership.

Location: Work From Home/Remote, Flexible

Salary: Competitive base + monthly performance bonus + fast-track career growth

Responsibilities

• Manage and ship technical SEO tickets in project management system, working with IT and development teams
• Implement schema markup, structured data, and rich result features
• Handle hreflang corrections, international SEO debugging, ccTLD and subdomain consistency
• Maintain sitemap, canonical tags, robots.txt, and indexation hygiene
• Improve Core Web Vitals (image optimization, lazy loading, render-blocking resources)
• Check JavaScript rendering affecting indexation
• Manage redirects and QA for migrations and category changes
• Implement on-page SEO (title tags, meta descriptions, headings, internal linking)
• Update and optimize existing content
• Conduct keyword research and competitor gap analysis
• Support content briefing for content team
• Perform localization QA on SEO elements
• Support AI search visibility through structured data and schema
• Monitor AI search visibility and adapt content accordingly
• Run outreach campaigns for backlinks and brand mentions
• Monitor crawl errors, indexation, and ranking issues in Google Search Console
• Report on SEO performance and issues

Requirements

• 2-3 years hands-on SEO experience, ideally in e-commerce or agency environment
• Strong command of Google Search Console, GA4, Screaming Frog, Ahrefs or Semrush
• Solid keyword research and on-page optimization skills
• Awareness of AI search (SGE, AI Overviews, LLM citation) and structured data support
• Experience with multi-region and multi-language sites (hreflang, ccTLDs, subdomains)
• Comfortable working with Jira, Asana, or similar project management tools
• Reliable, organized, and able to ship on time
• Excellent written communication skills
• Fluent English
• Self-motivated remote worker with stable internet connection
• Bonus: WordPress/Elementor, Shopify, custom CMS, HTML, CSS, JSON-LD schema, regex, product feeds, Merchant Center

Additional Information

• Include the word Croissant in your cover letter to confirm you've read the job description.
• Please send your CV with a description of two recent SEO problems you solved, your tool stack, your weekly availability, and start date.