Domain Governance Senior Specialist

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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