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Open nowPosted 142 days ago

Founding Head of SEO

HiringCafe9 open roles

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$130,000 – $300,000 a year
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Cupertino
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The posting

Job discovery is broken. Indeed and LinkedIn want to keep it that way. Join our team and help millions of people put food on the table by finding the perfect job.

Hiring.Cafe http://Hiring.Cafe is building a 100× better job search engine — fast, comprehensive, honest, and actually useful. We index millions of jobs, remove noise, rank what matters, and help people find real opportunities without dark patterns, ads, or pay-to-win placement.

We are funded by top tier investors in Silicon Valley, along with angel investments from former leadership and directors at Indeed and ZipRecruiter. In 12 months, we grew from 0 → 1 million+ monthly active users - all with a $0 marketing budget! Now, we are looking for a founding team member to help take us from 1M to 10M+ MAUs.

OUR TEAM

- Hamed Nilforoshan - Stanford AI PhD, Data Science at Airbnb & Snapchat

- Ali Mir - SWE at Meta, Rippling, DoorDash

- Jure Leskovec - Stanford AI Professor, ex-Chief Scientist at Pinterest

THE ROLE

We are looking for a Founding Head of SEO to architect, build, and execute our massive-scale organic growth engine. Think about the infrastructure that powers Indeed.com http://Indeed.com's organic dominance. That is exactly what we need you to build, but faster, smarter, and without the legacy debt.

This role is exclusively focused on capturing high-intent job seekers through search. We need a deeply technical SEO practitioner who possesses an extreme amount of grit and the startup hustle required to build something massive. You will work hand-in-hand with the founders and engineering team to design site architecture, build programmatic SEO systems, and drive off-page authority, all while rolling up your sleeves to handle day-to-day execution.

This is a highly demanding, high-reward role requiring a minimum commitment of 50 hours per week at our Cupertino office.

WHAT YOU WILL 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 YOU BRING TO THE TABLE

- 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 AND PERKS

- 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

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