Lead Marketing Manager - SEO & GEO

Austin, TX (Hybrid)

$125K/yr – $135K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own CARE.com\'s end-to-end SEO program, driving traffic, rankings, and conversions while shaping AI-driven search visibility across AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and related tools; partner with engineering and product to embed SEO into the product lifecycle and align cross-functional strategy.

  • Own technical, content, and off-page SEO to hit traffic, ranking, and conversion goals.
  • Define and operationalize AI search strategy, optimizing entity coverage, schema, and content structure for AI-driven answers.
  • Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Data to ensure SEO is central to product decisions and SERP strategy.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Organic Growth: Build and execute the SEO roadmap across technical, content, and off-page. Own the numbers: traffic, rankings, conversions. No handoffs, no excuses.
  • AI-Optimized Search (AIO): Define and drive CARE.com's strategy for visibility in AI-generated results — Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and whatever comes next. Optimize entity coverage, content structure, and schema to ensure we're the answer, not just a result.
  • Technical SEO: Run audits, triage issues, and ship fixes. Partner with engineering from requirements through QA — you write the tickets, you join the sprints, you own the outcome. SEO is built into the product lifecycle, not bolted on afterward.
  • Content & On-Page: Own the full cycle from keyword brief to published page. Build scalable frameworks for programmatic SEO across CARE.com's care categories. Every page should earn its index.
  • Cross-Functional Influence: Be the SEO authority for Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Data. Align with Paid on SERP strategy. Build dashboards that make organic performance impossible to ignore.

Requirements

  • Experience
  • 7+ years of SEO experience
  • Proven track record of driving significant organic traffic and revenue growth at scale
  • Direct experience working within or alongside engineering/product teams in an agile environment
  • Demonstrated experience with AI search optimization (AIO, LLM-based search, featured snippets, entity optimization)
  • Technical Skills
  • Expert-level proficiency with SEO tools: Google Search Console, Ahrefs, Semrush, Screaming Frog, Botify, or similar
  • Comfortable reading and writing HTML, CSS basics, and structured data (JSON-LD/Schema.org)
  • Experience with log file analysis, JavaScript SEO challenges, and large-scale site architecture
  • Proficiency with analytics platforms (GA4, Looker, Tableau, or similar)
  • Soft Skills & Mindset
  • A bias for action — you move fast, test, learn, and iterate
  • Strong communicator who can translate complex SEO concepts for non-technical stakeholders and write airtight engineering tickets
  • Project management chops — you can manage multiple initiatives simultaneously without dropping the ball
  • Entrepreneurial ownership mentality: you treat the organic channel like it's yours to build

Benefits

  • health insurance coverage, life, and disability insurance, a generous 401K employer matching program, paid holidays, and paid time off (PTO).
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Care.com

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Care.com is where families go to find care and where caregivers go to find meaningful work. Since 2007, over 45 million people have turned to Care.com—across child care, senior care, adult care, pet care and housekeeping. We’re here to make care simpler, smarter and more personal. Through Care for Business, Care.com empowers over 700 companies to provide family care benefits to their employees. With HomePay, we make it easier for families to manage household taxes and payroll. As moms, dads, pet parents, sons and daughters ourselves, we’re a passionate team of innovators and problem-solvers. We utilize data, AI and cutting-edge solutions to address universal care challenges and build connections. If you’re driven to apply your talents where innovative tech meets heart and want to contribute to a platform that has supported millions of families (and counting!), explore a career with us. Care.com is proud to be part of the IAC family.

Founded in 2006
Dallas, Texas, USA
42% recommend to a friend
63% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Google Ads Budget
$2.1M

Marketing Team

Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3

Funding

Total Funding
$156.9M
Last Raise
$46.4M
Post IPO Equity, 10 years ago

Funding History

  • Jun 2016
    Post IPO Equity • $46.4M
  • Jul 2012
    Series E • $50M
  • Oct 2011
    Series D • $25M

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