About this role
Location : This is a hybrid role, offering a combination of being able to work remotely and from our offices.
Contract Type : Permanent
The Opportunity
The SEO/GEO Product Owner is responsible for managing and prioritising the product backlog that supports organic discovery across search engines, AI-powered experiences and emerging agentic search platforms.
Reporting into the Easy to Find domain, the role works closely with SEO, Digital Product, Technology and Analytics teams to translate discovery opportunities into product outcomes that improve visibility, traffic acquisition and customer engagement. The role will leverage experimentation and testing capabilities to measure the impact of changes and continuously optimise how RS products and content are surfaced across digital discovery channels.
What You Will Be Doing
- Own and prioritise the SEO and GEO product backlog, ensuring alignment to business objectives, customer needs and strategic priorities.
- Work closely with SEO, Engineering and Analytics teams to identify, evaluate and deliver opportunities that improve organic visibility, traffic and conversion performance.
- Define and manage requirements for SEO and GEO initiatives, translating business needs into clear user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Lead delivery of SEO and GEO experimentation initiatives through SearchPilot and related platforms, including the transition of successful tests into permanent production solutions.
- Collaborate with Engineering teams to deliver scalable technical SEO improvements, supporting server-side experimentation, API-driven deployments, Core Web Vitals and platform performance objectives.
- Analyse performance data and experimentation results to inform prioritisation, optimisation opportunities and business value realisation.
- Stay informed on emerging SEO, GEO, AI-powered search and digital discovery trends, identifying opportunities to improve customer findability and business performance.
What You’ll Bring
- Proven experience as a Product Owner or similar role within a digital product or ecommerce environment.
- Strong understanding of SEO and GEO principles, including technical SEO, experimentation methodologies and organic search performance drivers.
- Experience managing and prioritising product backlogs, balancing commercial opportunity, customer value and technical considerations.
- Experience working closely with Engineering teams to deliver technical capabilities, with familiarity of server-side rendering, API-driven architectures and modern web platforms.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret data, experimentation outcomes and performance metrics.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across cross-functional teams.
We Are RS
At RS, we are making amazing happen for a better world.
As a global product and service solutions provider, we help industrial customers operate more efficiently and sustainably. Operating in 33 markets, we support around one million customers worldwide with more than 875,000 stocked products, access to over five million additional products, and a range of service solutions designed to help businesses thrive.
What sets us apart is our people. More than 8,500 colleagues around the world bring technical expertise, digital innovation, and a customer first mindset to everything we do. Guided by our values – we are one team, we deliver brilliantly, we do the right thing, and we make every day better, we're creating an environment where our people can grow, contribute and make a meaningful impact.
Join us and help make amazing happen.
Rewards
Our Reward Strategy Philosophy is designed to offer market competitive base salaries and provide all of our people the opportunity to participate in a short-term incentive, enabling them to share in the success of the Company.
Our total reward package is more than just the cash; our recognition and benefit offering provide the opportunity for us to recognise, reward and enable the wellbeing of our people at all stages of their journey with RS. Our rewards and benefits vary by country, but include:
- Financial - pension/retirement; life assurance; salary finance (payroll deduction loan scheme)
- Wellbeing - medical plans; health screening; critical illness; disability insurance; holiday / paid time off; employee assistance programme; discounted gym/health club membership
- Lifestyle - transportation assistance schemes (e.g., cycle to work, travel loans, car leasing); onsite catering/lunch vouchers; retail discounts
- Spotlight – our global recognition programme provides a platform to highlight and recognise people role modelling our values
Ready to Make Amazing Happen?
Join over 8,500 colleagues and help us shape the future of our industry. Whoever you are, wherever you are — it all starts here.
Apply now and make RS a part of your journey.
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