About this role
About the Role Founding Head of SEO to architect, build, and execute our massive-scale organic growth engine. You’ll design site architecture, build programmatic SEO systems, and drive off-page authority to capture high-intent job seekers through search. This role requires extreme technical SEO expertise, grit, and startup hustle, with hands-on execution alongside the founders and engineering team. What You'll Do
- 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. What We're Looking For
- 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. Compensation & Benefits
- Salary bands: IC1: 130k - 150k base + equity; IC2: 160k - 180k base + equity; IC3: 200k - 300k base + equity.
- Competitive pay & equity
- Flexible PTO & family leave
- Full medical, dental, and vision benefits
- Design your own perks as a core member of the founding team