Founding Head of SEO

HiringCafe•Cupertino, CA

5d•$130,000 - $300,000•Onsite

About The Position

Hiring.Cafe is building a job search engine that aims to be 100x better than existing platforms, focusing on speed, comprehensiveness, honesty, and usefulness. They index millions of jobs, remove noise, rank important information, and help users find opportunities without employing dark patterns, ads, or pay-to-win placement. The company is funded by top-tier Silicon Valley investors and has grown to over 1 million monthly active users in 12 months with a $0 marketing budget. They are seeking a founding team member to help scale to 10 million+ monthly active users.

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.

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.