GEO & SEO Manager

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

$110K/yr – $140K/yrMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 3 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own Instawork\'s AI search presence and lead the GEO program across priority topics, focusing on visibility, content structure for machine retrieval, dashboards, and cross-channel authority.

  • Drive AI answer-engine visibility and content strategy for mid- to bottom-funnel leads.
  • Build dashboards and optimize technical SEO, site structure, and backlinks.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • GEO
  • Own Instawork's visibility and citation share across AI answer engines for our priority topics and in mid-funnel to bottom-funnel lead-generating conversations.
  • Build and maintain dashboards that measure GEO performance.
  • Structure content and site architecture for machine retrieval, including content coverage, schema and structured data, extractable answer formats, source authority, and freshness signals.
  • Identify gaps in Instawork’s visibility across priority AI conversations and create or update content to close them.
  • Build Instawork’s presence and authority across sources AI platforms reference, including review sites, industry publications, Reddit, Quora, and YouTube.
  • SEO
  • Own the technical SEO health of our Webflow site, including crawlability, indexation, site architecture, internal linking, redirects, and site speed.
  • Execute a high-quality backlink strategy that strengthens Instawork’s search authority.
  • Manage AI agents and automations that expand and refresh existing site templates while maintaining content quality.

Requirements

  • 2+ years of direct, hands-on GEO ownership. You've been responsible for AI answer-engine visibility as a named part of your job, with results you can walk us through. Tell us what you tracked, what you changed, and what moved.
  • Strong technical SEO expertise. You might not have been directly responsible for SEO but you supported an SEO operation or can demonstrate expertise. You understand site, site architecture, internal linking, crawlability, and indexation.
  • Fluency with Google Search Console, GA4, Screaming Frog, Ahrefs or Semrush, and at least one AI-visibility platform such as Profound, Peec, Otterly, or Scrunch—or a tracker you built yourself.
  • You are an AI-first builder with experience in the new wave of platforms like Cursor, Claude, and n8n.
  • A record of measuring success through pipeline and revenue, not rankings and traffic alone.

Preferred

  • Experience with programmatic or large-scale, template-driven SEO.
  • Marketplace, B2B SaaS, or staffing/recruiting industry experience, especially in a business with local demand.
  • Webflow experience.
  • SQL, Python, or scripting experience for analysis and automation; comfort working with APIs.

Benefits

  • A variety of medical, dental, and vision plans with coverage beginning on the date of hire.
  • Flexible paid time off.
  • At least 8 paid company holidays annually.
  • Home office stipend.
  • Phone stipend.
  • Commuter stipend.
  • Supplemental pay on qualified leaves.
  • Employee health savings accounts (HSA) contribution.
  • Flexible spending plans.
  • 401K plan.
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Instawork

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At Instawork, we’re driven by our vision to create economic opportunity for local businesses and skilled hourly professionals in communities around the world. Our accomplished and dedicated team is passionate about our mission and committed to creating products that bring together businesses and skilled hourly workers together in a meaningful way.

Founded in 2016
San Francisco, California, USA
2.2K employees (74 in marketing)
51% recommend to a friend
60% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$110K/yr – $140K/yr

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Funding

Total Funding
$148M
Last Raise
$60M
Series D, 3 years ago

Funding History

  • May 2023
    Series D • $60M
  • Feb 2022
    Series Unknown
  • Jul 2021
    Series C • $60M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
424.4K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$100.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
41.2%
Direct
50.1%
Referral
6.2%
Social
1.9%
Paid
0.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~2.2K

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GEO & SEO Manager

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