SEO & AI Search Lead

Responsibilities

• Lead our organic search work. Work with our e-commerce strategists and SEO team to develop client roadmaps, set priorities and make sure the work produces meaningful results. You'll be the person we turn to when SEO decisions require experienced technical judgment.
• Solve complex e-commerce SEO problems. Get hands-on with technical audits, site architecture, crawling and indexing, structured data, redirects, platform migrations, product catalogs and other challenges that come with running large e-commerce sites. You won't do all the work yourself, but you'll need the skills to step in when necessary.
• Work directly with clients. Be the primary SEO expert our clients interact with through monthly Zoom meetings, email, Slack and other conversations. Help them understand what we're doing, why it matters, what the results tell us and what we recommend next.
• Help win new business. Participate in sales conversations, conduct SEO audits for prospective clients, identify opportunities and explain how StatBid can help. Your technical expertise and ability to connect recommendations to business outcomes will be important to earning clients' trust.
• Improve the framework. Help us establish and measure first-time quality, understand where the work creates merchant value and identify where our approach falls short. Use what we learn to improve the framework, our standards and how we deliver SEO. Nothing about the framework is off-limits to questioning.
• Help build better tools. Our proprietary software, Argos, is becoming an increasingly important part of how our team and AI agents identify, prioritize and execute work. You'll be an important source of feedback, helping define new functionality, improve recommendations and translate SEO expertise into repeatable processes and agent skills. You'll work closely with our engineering and data teams to make that happen.
• Explore organic and agentic commerce. Keep learning as search and shopping behavior evolve. Develop hypotheses, test new approaches and help us understand what actually improves merchant visibility and results across traditional search and emerging AI platforms.
• Help others do better work. Coach team members, review the quality of their work, share your expertise and help improve our standards. Our SEO support team has its own manager, so this isn't primarily a people management role. Your influence will come through your expertise, collaboration and willingness to help others grow.
• Keep clients on track. Make sure client performance is monitored, problems are identified early, recommendations are acted on and we follow through on commitments. Protecting the quality of our existing work and client relationships comes first.

Requirements

• Strong e-commerce SEO expertise. You understand technical SEO, content strategy, site architecture, crawling and indexing, structured data, redirects, migrations and the other challenges involved in growing organic traffic and revenue for online retailers. You can both diagnose problems and help implement solutions.
• Experience with Shopify. Shopify is central to our work, so strong experience with the platform is highly desirable. We'd consider someone exceptional from another e-commerce platform who can demonstrate an ability to get up to speed quickly.
• An understanding of how online retail works. You recognize that rankings and traffic aren't the ultimate goal. You can connect SEO decisions to merchandising, inventory, conversion, revenue and profitability. Experience working inside an e-commerce business is especially valuable, but not required.
• Good judgment and ownership. You can distinguish important problems from distractions, set priorities and take responsibility for outcomes. When something isn't working, you find out why and do something about it.
• A willingness to build systems. You enjoy figuring out how to make good work repeatable. You look for opportunities to improve processes, eliminate unnecessary work and use technology to make the team more effective. You don't need to have built a system like ours before.
• Curiosity and adaptability. You're passionate about e-commerce, organic search and emerging agentic commerce channels. You actively learn new technologies, test ideas and change your approach when the evidence suggests something better.
• Clear communication. You can explain complicated technical subjects in language clients understand, make recommendations confidently and have difficult conversations when needed.
• A collaborative approach. You enjoy working with others, sharing what you know and helping people develop. Previous coaching experience is a plus, but genuinely caring about others and their growth matters more.

Preferred

• Previous coaching experience is a plus, but genuinely caring about others and their growth matters more.
• Comfortable learning new tools and working with AI agents and engineering/data teams to improve systems.

Benefits

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave