Domain Governance Senior Specialist
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Job Description We are seeking a Senior Specialist, Domain Governance to lead and scale our company’s 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 organization’s 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.
Responsibilities 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.
Qualifications Required Bachelor’s 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 leave, 5 sick days, 15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually, 40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities, 12 weeks 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 Ready to take up the challenge?
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