Lead Technical SEO Manager

Zoom

6d • $124,000 - $271,200 • Remote

About The Position

This is a hands-on technical leadership role responsible for Zoom’s technical SEO foundation across a complex, global, multi-platform web ecosystem, including Optimizely CMS, WordPress, custom web applications, and modern frontend frameworks. The role translates SEO and AEO strategy into scalable production solutions, reusable capabilities, automation, and engineering standards that support visibility across traditional search engines and emerging AI-powered discovery platforms.

The position is part of Zoom’s Website Engineering team within the Online Business organization, working with web engineers, CMS specialists, SEO and AEO experts, and performance engineers. It collaborates with Marketing, Product, Design, Content, Localization, and senior stakeholders to deliver fast, accessible, and AI-ready digital experiences. The role’s work is tied to organic visibility, acquisition, pipeline, and revenue outcomes.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of experience in technical SEO, web engineering, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated record leading technical SEO initiatives across large-scale websites and web applications in a B2B SaaS or enterprise technology environment.
• Ability to connect technical SEO work to measurable organic visibility, acquisition, pipeline, and revenue outcomes.
• Deep expertise in crawlability, indexation, rendering, canonicalization, redirects, URL architecture, XML sitemaps, robots directives, structured data, internal linking, hreflang, and JavaScript-based web applications.
• Hands-on proficiency with JavaScript, PHP, HTML, and CSS to diagnose and implement technical SEO fixes directly in codebases and CMS platforms.
• Experience improving web performance and Core Web Vitals, including diagnosing JavaScript execution, rendering, caching, CDN, image, third-party script, API, and server performance issues.
• Experience building scalable SEO capabilities, automation, monitoring, and CI/CD quality gates across enterprise CMS platforms such as Optimizely and WordPress.
• Ability to work directly in CMS platforms and codebases to implement configurations, standardize templates, and deploy SEO capabilities across multiple sites and applications.
• Strong understanding of structured data, Schema.org, JSON-LD, semantic HTML, and technical foundations for AEO and AI-powered search.
• Strong analytical skills using tools such as Google Search Console, Screaming Frog, Semrush, Ahrefs, Sitebulb, analytics platforms, and application observability tools.
• Experience analyzing server and crawl logs to identify crawl blocks, indexation gaps, rendering failures, and visibility issues across Google, AI search platforms, and LLM crawlers, and translating findings into prioritized fixes.
• Strong leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills, including the ability to influence engineering architecture, establish technical standards, and partner with SEO, Web Engineering, Product, Marketing, Content, and senior stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with emerging AI search platforms including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical SEO roadmap and execution across Zoom’s global web ecosystem, prioritizing initiatives using SEO analysis, audits, crawl and search performance data, server logs, technical root-cause analysis, and business priorities.
• Translate SEO and AEO requirements into technical designs, development specifications, production implementations, and ongoing maintenance across Optimizely CMS, WordPress, custom web applications, APIs, and modern frontend frameworks throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Own technical solutions for crawlability, indexability, XML sitemaps, robots.txt, canonicalization, redirects, URL architecture, metadata, structured data, internal linking, hreflang, JavaScript rendering, rendering approaches, and search-friendly application architecture.
• Build reusable SEO capabilities such as centralized metadata services, automated sitemap generation, structured-data components, redirect services, internal-linking systems, and standardized SEO configurations.
• Drive Core Web Vitals and web performance improvements, including LCP, INP, CLS, JavaScript execution, rendering, image optimization, font loading, third-party scripts, caching, CDN configuration, API performance, and server response times.
• Develop automated testing, monitoring, dashboards, CI/CD quality gates, proactive alerting, and validation scripts to detect issues and prevent production regressions in SEO, accessibility, performance, and rendering.
• Establish the technical foundation for AEO and AI search through structured data, semantic HTML, machine-readable metadata, entity and product schemas, and machine-readable endpoints; evaluate emerging AI-search and agentic-web standards and translate them into engineering requirements.
• Define and maintain technical SEO standards and governance across Optimizely, WordPress, and custom applications, serving as the technical authority through reference architectures, launch-readiness criteria, design reviews, and code reviews.
• Partner with SEO, Content, Product Marketing, Web Engineering, Product, and senior stakeholders to turn search strategy and business priorities into scalable technical solutions and measurable outcomes for discoverability, organic visibility, acquisition, pipeline, and revenue.

Benefits

• Benefits program offering options to support physical, mental, emotional, and financial health, work-life balance, and community contribution.
• Base salary and/or OTE compensation may include bonus and equity value.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed