SEO Content Specialist Dubai, UAE (12-month Contract)

Canva; United States; Remote; USD 24,000 - 43,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Contract role

Job summary

Canva is seeking an SEO Content Specialist for the Arabic-speaking region to help scale our growth. You will craft and manage SEO-friendly content, coordinate with the Arabic SEO Lead, and ensure consistency with Canva's brand voice and editorial standards.

You’ll work with the International SEO team on a global content strategy, publish in a CMS, and contribute to keyword research and content production across multilingual markets. This is a remote, contract role with a 12-month horizon.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Modern Standard Arabic & English is required.
• Experience creating SEO-optimised content.
• Copy editing and providing feedback to writers preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop SEO-aligned content for landing pages and blogs.
• Create and edit engaging content per the SEO strategy.
• Publish content in the CMS following brand tone and guidelines.
• Coordinate with Arabic SEO team to align goals and best practices.
• Support keyword research, competitive analysis, and outreach collaboration.

Skills

Arabic & English

SEO content writing

Copy editing

Editorial planning

SEO tools

Web analytics

Communication

Project management

Education

Experience with CMS publishing

Tools

Ahrefs

Semrush

Job description

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

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Where and how you can work

Alongside our global campuses we also collaborate with talented contractors and freelancers from all over the world to help us achieve our crazy big goals. While we support flexible remote-friendly ways of working for this role were focusing on Dubaiso we can best support our teams and keep collaboration flowing.

This role is a 12-month engagement working full-time hours.

What youd be doing in this role

As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think thats all part of the fun. So this will give you the flavour of the type of things youll be working on when you start but this will likely evolve.

Canvas SEO is world-class and were looking for a passionate SEO Content Specialist to join the International SEO team to help scale our next phase of growth in the Arabic-speaking region!

The SEO Content Specialist will work closely with the Arabic SEO Lead and local team. The role of an SEO Content Specialist is to help create and manage engaging SEO-optimised copy and content that informs and converts.

As an SEO Content Specialist you will provide initiative direction and support to create helpful and inspiring content for users in the Arabic region.

What youll do

• Champion content requirements for landing pages and blog articles and support the development of a long-term content strategy by keeping an up-to-date editorial calendar and publishing plan
• Create and edit SEO-optimised and engaging content about various design topics that are in line with the content strategy of the SEO team
• Upload and publish content that follows the latest SEO copy best practices and fits our local tone of voice which is set by our language managers
• Provide feedback on content management systems translation quality and page layout to improve efficiency and quality.
• Work with the Arabic SEO team to align on goals priorities and SEO best practices to drive SEO Growth with potential to support broader SEO activities such as keyword research competitor analysis and collaboration with Outreach Specialists for content production.
• Maintain a high level of quality and consistency as well as alignment with our brand guidelines

About you

• Proficiency in Modern Standard Arabic& English
• Experience in SEO content writing/content marketing
• Previous experience with copy editing and giving feedback to other writers
• Experience with editorial planning and publishing content in a CMS
• Broad knowledge and understanding of SEO best practices and familiarity with SEO tools like Ahrefs/Semrush (bonus!)
• Experience using web analytics tools to understand how users engage with content
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to self-manage capacity and project deadlines

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About the team

The International SEO team is responsible for improving the SEO performance of logged-out pages across the Canva website. Our mission in SEO is to empower every user in the world to discover Canva.

Other stuff to know

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Please note that contractor-accreditation meetings are conducted virtually.

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Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Contract