Senior SEO Manager

Lake Forest, CA (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableSenior LevelFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive and own SEO/GEO strategy to grow organic traffic, lead conversions, and brand visibility across traditional search engines and AI-driven engines.

  • Own and execute SEO/GEO strategy across channels and platforms.
  • Must-have: Experience leading technical SEO initiatives with cross-functional teams.
  • Standout: Agency/vendor management and scalable SEO workflows.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own and manage the company SEO and GEO strategies to grown organic traffic, brand visibility and lead conversion across traditional search engines and emerging AI-driven answer engines.
  • Drive technical SEO improvements across web, mobile, and app platforms, including site architecture, indexing, schema markup, and mobile optimization.
  • Identify and resolve SEO issues such as duplicate content, broken links, redirecting problems indexing errors or pother SEO errors.
  • Conduct keyword, topic, entity, competitor and audience-intent research to identify growth opportunities for SEO.
  • Monitor and analyze SEO performance using SEMrush, Google Search Console and Google Analytics, reporting on KPIs such as traffic, engagement, and conversions.
  • Run regular SEO audits to identify opportunities for optimizations and prioritize needed updates based on impact and effort.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with marketing, revenue, creative, social media and operations teams as needed.
  • Manage and periodically evaluate agency partners and SEO tools for effectiveness and explore opportunities to improve our SEO/GEO performance through new relationships and tools
  • Stay current on algorithm updates, SERP changes and AI-search developments and adapt strategy accordingly.
  • Establish best practices, documentation, testing frameworks and scalable workflows for SEO/GEO execution

Requirements

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Strong analytical skills with close attention to details.
  • Experience leading technical SEO initiatives and working with Marketing and Revenue teams.
  • Strong knowledge of search ranking factors, keyword strategy and on-page SEO best practices
  • Experience using SEO and analytics tools such as Google Search Console, Google Analytics, Ahrefs, SEMrush, Screaming Frog, or similar platforms
  • Excellent cross-functional collaboration and communication skills working in a team environment.
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate data into actionable insights and recommendations.
  • Experience working agency partners or SEO technology vendors preferred.
  • Ability to gather requirements and data, synthesize proposed solutions and then execute on plans

Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Health insurance including medical, dental and vision
  • Life and Disability Insurances
  • Paid Time Off
  • Generous Holiday Schedule
  • 401(k) matching with no waiting period
  • Employee assistance program
  • Referral program
  • A great culture!
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Founded in 2009
Ladera Ranch, California, USA
404 employees
43% recommend to a friend
54% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
167.8K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$442.5K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
50%
Direct
41.5%
Referral
6.7%
Social
0.6%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~404

Marketing Team

Median Tenure
2.9 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$1.7B
Last Raise
$500M
Post IPO Debt, 26 days ago

Funding History

  • Feb 2026
    Post IPO Debt • $500M
  • Sep 2025
    Post IPO Debt • $145.1M
  • Jun 2025
    Post IPO Debt • $365.9M

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