Director of SEO and Agentic Search

Seattle, WA (Remote)

$170K/yr – $190K/yrDirector/ExecutiveFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own and shape the company’s organic growth through brand-wide SEO strategy, AI search visibility, and scalable technical foundations, while leading content, team development, and cross-functional alignment to drive measurable revenue impact.

  • Organic strategy across our brand portfolio. The vision, roadmap, and standards for how our brands compete in organic search and AI powered discovery.
  • AI Search visibility. Establishing our brands as cited, authoritative sources in Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and emerging conversational search surfaces. Through answer first content architecture, entity authority, and structured data that AI systems can discover, extract, and trust.
  • Technical SEO and architecture. Large scale technical infrastructure, Core Web Vitals, structured data, crawl efficiency, and the product architecture decisions that drive organic performance.
  • Content strategy and production. Directing the editorial work that produces the pages, guides, studies, and resources that rank, get cited, and convert.
  • Team leadership and hiring. Assessing the current core, making the talent calls that need to be made, and building the team you need for the new direction.
  • Cross functional partnership. Working closely with Engineering, Analytics, and Data to build the technical and measurement foundation organic needs to operate at scale.

Job Description

Own and shape the company’s organic growth through brand-wide SEO strategy, AI search visibility, and scalable technical foundations, while leading content, team development, and cross-functional alignment to drive measurable revenue impact.

  • Organic strategy across our brand portfolio. The vision, roadmap, and standards for how our brands compete in organic search and AI powered discovery.
  • AI Search visibility. Establishing our brands as cited, authoritative sources in Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and emerging conversational search surfaces. Through answer first content architecture, entity authority, and structured data that AI systems can discover, extract, and trust.
  • Technical SEO and architecture. Large scale technical infrastructure, Core Web Vitals, structured data, crawl efficiency, and the product architecture decisions that drive organic performance.
  • Content strategy and production. Directing the editorial work that produces the pages, guides, studies, and resources that rank, get cited, and convert.
  • Team leadership and hiring. Assessing the current core, making the talent calls that need to be made, and building the team you need for the new direction.
  • Cross functional partnership. Working closely with Engineering, Analytics, and Data to build the technical and measurement foundation organic needs to operate at scale.
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LawnStarter

4.1 Glassdoor

LawnStarter is a marketplace for outdoor home services. We offer the simplest and most effective solution for ordering and managing outdoor home services, with operations in more than 3,000 cities across the United States. With incredibly high ratings from consumers and providers, it is easy to see why we have industry-leading retention on both sides of the marketplace and are poised to build a multi-billion-dollar consumer brand.We have successfully raised over $35M from some of the leading technology and growth investors.

Founded in 2013
Austin, Texas, USA
437 employees (65 in marketing)
74% recommend to a friend
83% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
388.9K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$150.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
58.5%
Direct
35.1%
Referral
4.3%
Social
1.2%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~439

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
56 (13% of company)

Funding

Total Funding
$17.6M
Last Raise
$10.5M
Series Unknown, 6 years ago

Funding History

  • Nov 2019
    Series Unknown • $10.5M
  • Jun 2015
    Series A • $6M
  • Jan 2015
    Seed • $1M

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