Director Web Strategy and Development at Seattle University in First Hill

Job description

Months Per Year: 12 Work Model: Hybrid Work Eligible Seattle University will be one of the most innovative and progressive Jesuit and Catholic universities in the world, educating with excellence at the undergraduate, graduate, and professional levels. We embrace an intersectional framework for defining diversity in its broadest sense, including differences in gender, gender identity, race, ethnicity, generational history, culture, socioeconomic class, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship status, political perspectives, geographic origin and physical ability. Seattle University strives to be a welcome, open and safe campus climate for all who learn, live and work at Seattle University. Seattle University's Core Competencies Effective Team Collaboration: Works harmoniously with others towards a common goal, leveraging individual strengths to achieve shared objectives. Emotionally Intelligent Communication: Engages in a skillful exchange of information, thoughts, and feelings, verbally and non-verbally. Ethics and Integrity: Demonstrates an unwavering commitment to honesty, professionalism, and alignment with our Jesuit mission in all actions and decisions. Flexibility and Innovation: Embraces change, approaching problems with curiosity adaptability, and is committed to making a positive impact. Mindful Inclusion: Fosters mindful inclusion by consciously creating a workplace that celebrates differences, embraces cultural humility, and empowers uniqueness. Outcomes-Driven Orientation: Sets clear objectives, pursues excellence, and delivers measurable outcomes while upholding Jesuit Catholic values. Position Description: Primary Responsibilities Digital Strategy & Product Leadership Develop and execute a comprehensive, multi-year web and digital experience strategy aligned with Seattle University's strategic and marketing priorities. Lead major website redesigns, platform migrations, integrations, and digital transformation initiatives. Partner with university leadership and stakeholders to identify opportunities for digital experiences to improve recruitment, enrollment, engagement, fundraising, and institutional reputation. Establish scalable approaches for integrating newly acquired, affiliated, or evolving institutional web properties into the broader Seattle University digital ecosystem. Web Platforms & Technical Strategy Provide strategic and technical leadership for the University's web technology ecosystem, including Terminalfour, WordPress, Drupal, SharePoint. Establish platform architecture, configuration, development standards, release processes, integrations, APIs, and technical governance. Evaluate the long-term role of existing platforms and recommend consolidation, migration, modernization, or replacement when appropriate. Partner with ITS on infrastructure, authentication, integrations, security, cloud services, data architecture, and enterprise technology standards. Oversee development environments, source control, Git workflows, deployment processes, CDNs, performance optimization, monitoring, and quality assurance. Ensure web platforms remain scalable, maintainable, secure, performant, and resilient. User Experience, Content Strategy & Search Engine Optimization Lead user experience, information architecture, content strategy, navigation, search, SEO, and digital discovery. Improve audience journeys, conversion, engagement, findability, and task completion through research and continuous optimization. Establish scalable content models, structured data, taxonomy, and SEO practices supporting both traditional and AI-powered discovery. Establish technical and content SEO standards across institutional websites. Optimize University content for traditional search engines as well as evolving AI-powered search, answer engines, and generative discovery experiences. Oversee structured data, metadata, taxonomy, schema, content relationships, and other technologies that improve discoverability. Analyt