Website Manager (WordPress / Next.js / SEO)

About Us

We are The Dog House Pet Salon, a Houston-based pet services company with 3 grooming locations and a pet technology platform called My Pet Credentials. We manage multiple web properties including WordPress sites (with Elementor), a Next.js website, and various business listings across Google, Yelp, and other platforms. We need someone who can keep everything running smoothly, optimize our search visibility, and manage content across all of our digital properties.

We are a family-run business that values reliability, initiative, and attention to detail.

What You Will Do

- Manage and update our WordPress websites using Elementor page builder
- Make content updates, publish blog posts, and maintain page accuracy across all web properties
- Perform on-page SEO optimization (meta titles, descriptions, headings, internal linking, image alt text)
- Monitor and improve technical SEO (page speed, Core Web Vitals, crawl errors, sitemap, robots.txt)
- Manage local SEO for 3 physical locations (Google Business Profiles, Yelp, Apple Maps, local citations)
- Use Google Search Console and Google Analytics to track performance and identify issues
- Make minor content updates to our Next.js website (text, images, basic component edits)
- Monitor website uptime and respond to issues (slow load times, broken pages, SSL certificates)
- Coordinate with developers when technical fixes are needed beyond content management
- Use AI tools to research SEO opportunities, draft content, and diagnose website issues

Skills Required

- 2+ years of WordPress management experience (content updates, plugin management, basic troubleshooting)
- Experience with Elementor or similar visual page builders
- Working knowledge of on-page and technical SEO
- Experience with Google Search Console and Google Analytics
- Understanding of local SEO (Google Business Profile optimization, NAP consistency, local citations)
- Basic understanding of HTML/CSS (enough to make minor edits and troubleshoot layout issues)
- Strong written English for content management and blog posts
- Organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple properties simultaneously
- Comfortable using AI tools for research, content drafting, and problem diagnosis

Nice to Have

- Experience with Next.js or React-based websites (even basic familiarity)
- Knowledge of structured data / JSON-LD markup
- Experience managing Google Ads or social media accounts
- Familiarity with cPanel, Plesk, or similar hosting control panels
- Basic image editing skills (Canva, Photoshop, or similar)

Why Join Us

- Long-term, stable position with a company that has been serving the Houston community for years
- Clear, well-defined responsibilities -- no ambiguity about what success looks like
- Opportunity to grow into a broader digital marketing role as the company expands
- Competitive pay with annual raises based on performance
- Supportive team that provides context and training, not just task lists
- Work across a variety of platforms and properties -- no two days are exactly the same

How to Apply

Send your application with:
1. A brief introduction about yourself and your WordPress/SEO experience
2. Examples of websites you have managed (URLs if possible)
3. One specific SEO improvement you made on a past project and the result
4. Your experience with Google Business Profile management

Qualified candidates will be asked to complete a short online skills assessment (approximately 60 minutes). You will diagnose website issues, perform an SEO audit on our actual website, and walk through an emergency response scenario. AI tools are welcome -- we want to see how you think, not memorize.

Work Schedule: Full-time, 40 hours per week. We are flexible on exact hours but expect overlap with US Central Time (Houston, TX) for team communication.

Payment: Paid bi-weekly or monthly via your preferred method (Wise, PayPal, direct bank transfer).

Equipment: You provide your own computer and internet connection. We provide access to all necessary software, accounts, and AI tool subscriptions.

We use AI assistants (Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Cursor) as a standard part of our workflow. We are looking for people who know how to use AI effectively and know when it is wrong.