SEO & AI Search Lead

StatBid is an operator-led e-commerce growth agency. We pair hands-on services with our own software to help Shopify merchants grow profitably.

We’ve run online retail businesses ourselves. We help clients find what’s holding growth back and spend their marketing money well. Sometimes the problem sits outside of search, and spending more won’t fix it. We’d rather earn trust over time than push for a quick sale.

We’re about 30 people working across more than 14 countries. We run the company democratically, with open books. As a Certified B Corporation™, we’re accountable for our impact on clients, our team, the community and the environment.

We’re working toward a vision of sustainable commerce, and one of the things we find most rewarding is collaborating with people from different backgrounds and parts of the world to make a meaningful difference.

The opportunity

We’re looking for an experienced e-commerce SEO practitioner to lead our organic search practice and help us build what comes next.

We’ve developed a 6-Pillar SEO Framework grounded in years of hands-on experience operating online retail businesses. It gives us a common approach to technical SEO, content, rankings, reporting, competitive intelligence and client-specific projects.

The framework is still early in its development. We need to better understand the quality of the work it produces, the value it creates for merchants, and where we can improve it. We’re looking for someone who can help us answer those questions and turn what we learn into better ways of working.

Today, we support about 20 e-commerce sites. Our ambition is to build a system that can serve hundreds of merchants without growing our team at the same rate. That only works if we’re consistently creating value for the merchants we serve.

We’re also seeing consumer shopping behavior change as AI becomes part of how people discover, evaluate and buy products. Much of what makes good SEO still matters, but there are new techniques to develop, test and improve. We want someone who’s passionate about e-commerce and excited to help us figure out what organic search and agentic commerce will look like in the years ahead.

You’ll be our most senior SEO practitioner and the primary SEO expert our clients work with. You’ll guide the team, solve difficult problems, help improve our software and take responsibility for the quality and effectiveness of our organic search work.

You’ll have a team and a framework to build on, but plenty of freedom to question how things are done.

What you’ll do

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.

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