Website Technical Manager
Birmingham, MI - USA
Job Summary
Website Technical Manager
DEPLOY is recruiting on behalf of a fast-growing digital agency that builds smart high-performing digital experiences for leading brands. Our team brings together design development data and technology and were lookingmfor someone who loves getting under the hood of a website and making it work better.
The Opportunity
Were looking for an experienced hands-on Website Technical Manager who knows their way around a CMS and can independently identify diagnose and fix technical website issues.
This is not a content SEO position. It is not a strategy role. It is also not a client account management role.
At its core this is a website management position for someone who enjoys being inside the CMS every day monitoring site health finding problems fixing what they can and clearly documenting larger issues for the development team. If broken redirects crawl errors indexing problems messy site structures and CMS quirks feel more like puzzles than headaches you may be exactly who were looking for.
What Youll Be Doing
- Work hands-on inside client CMS platforms every day.
- Monitor websites for technical health performance accessibility crawlability and indexation issues.
- Independently identify troubleshoot and resolve technical website problems.
- Run and interpret site crawls technical audits indexation reports Core Web Vitals and log-file data.
- Find and fix broken links redirect chains crawl errors duplicate content canonical issues sitemap problems and other technical roadblocks.
- Manage and improve site architecture including URL structures internal linking canonical tags pagination
redirects and hreflang.
- Implement and maintain structured data using and JSON-LD.
- Make light updates to HTML CSS and basic JavaScript when needed.
- Identify issues that require deeper development work and provide developers with clear actionable requirements.
- Monitor how search engines and AI crawlers discover render and interpret website content.
- Support accessibility improvements involving semantic HTML heading structures alt text and ADA/WCAG fundamentals.
- Partner with developers designers content teams project managers and QA specialists to keep websites healthy and running smoothly.
- Document fixes recurring issues and recommended improvements.
What Were Looking For
- 2-6years of experience managing websites technical SEO website operations or a closely related technical discipline.
- Strong daily hands-on experience working inside CMS platforms.
- The ability to diagnose and remedy technical site-health issues independently.
- A deep understanding of crawlability and indexation including sitemaps canonicals redirects pagination hreflang and related technical elements.
- Strong working knowledge of HTML with the ability to read and make light changes to CSS and JavaScript.
- Hands-on experience implementing structured data and JSON-LD schema.
- Experience with tools such as Screaming Frog Google Search Console GA4 Ahrefs Semrush and log-file analyzers.
- Comfort working with technical data in spreadsheets exports dashboards or APIs.
- Knowledge of ADA/WCAG accessibility fundamentals as they relate to website structure.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the confidence to take ownership of an issue from discovery through resolution.
- The ability to communicate technical findings clearly to developers and internal teams.
- A practical curious team-first approach.
Nice to Have
- Experience with WordPress Webflow Shopify Sanity or headless CMS platforms.
- Familiarity with Git or another version-control system.
- Experience managing multiple websites in an agency environment.
- Knowledge of how AI-powered search and answer enginessuch as Google AI Overviews ChatGPT and
Perplexitydiscover and interpret website content.
- Experience with emerging crawler standards and technologies.
Youll Thrive Here If You
- Love being hands-on and close to the work.
- Notice technical problems other people miss.
- Dont just flag issuesyou figure out how to fix them.
- Can move comfortably between a CMS a site crawler analytics and light code.
- Enjoy working with smart collaborative people across multiple disciplines.
- Take pride in keeping websites clean healthy accessible and performing at their best.
What DEPLOYs client Offers
- A flexible remote or hybrid working environment.
- Unlimited PTO.
- Opportunities to grow your technical expertise and career.
- A talented collaborative and supportive team.
- The chance to solve interesting website challenges for leading brands.
- Meaningful work where your technical skills have a visible impact.
If youre the kind of person who sees a website issue and cant resist figuring out what caused it and how to fix it wed love to meet you.