Founding Head of SEO

Cupertino, CA (On-site)

$130K/yr – $300K/yrDirector/ExecutiveFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the scalable SEO engine that makes millions of job pages discoverable, fast, and trusted by job seekers, blending architecture with content systems and proactive link-building.

  • Programmatic SEO & Architecture: define the scalable page-generation strategy and partner with engineering to deliver optimized pages at scale.
  • Content & On-Page Systems: build repeatable processes to create high-intent content that supports strong search performance.
  • Technical Momentum: optimize crawl efficiency, indexation, and core-site health through robust rendering, data markup, and linking.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Architect Programmatic SEO: Design the strategy and collaborate with engineering to build millions of perfectly optimized, high-converting job and category pages.
  • Drive Content & On-Page: Develop scalable systems for generating high-quality, intent-driven content that job seekers actually want to read and use.
  • Master the Crawl: Manage crawl budgets for massive URL inventories, conduct log file analysis, and ensure rapid indexation of fast-moving job data.
  • Build Authority: Actively monitor our backlink profile and engineer highly effective, scalable campaigns to generate authoritative backlinks and digital PR.
  • Technical Excellence: Ensure flawless technical execution across rendering (React/Next.js), core web vitals, structured data, and dynamic internal linking.

Requirements

  • Elite Technical SEO Expertise: You understand exactly how modern software interacts with search engines. You are highly technical and can speak the same language as our engineers when designing architecture and automated page generation.
  • Extreme Grit and Hustle: You are relentless, move fast, and thrive in a high-intensity startup environment.
  • Mastery of Search Intent & Taxonomies: You intuitively understand how job seekers search and know how to structure facets, filters, and job data to match that intent flawlessly at scale.
  • Proven Link-Building Chops: You know how to identify opportunities, design outreach strategies, and build domain authority without resorting to tactics that risk our reputation.
  • True Ownership: You do not wait for a roadmap; you identify technical bottlenecks, run SEO A/B tests, and execute autonomously.
  • Passionate About Organic Scale: You are obsessed with crawl efficiency, indexation rates, ranking metrics, and scaling platforms to tens of millions of users.

Nice-to-have

    Benefits

    • Flexible PTO & family leave
    • Full medical, dental, and vision benefits
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