About this role
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
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Employee Status: Regular Relocation: No relocation VISA Sponsorship: No Travel Requirements: 10% Flexible Work Arrangements: Hybrid Shift: 1st - Day Valid Driving License: No Hazardous Material(s): n/a Job Posting End Date: 09/1/2026*A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day BEFORE the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day BEFORE the job posting end date.
Requisition ID:R411041