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ClickUp is seeking a strategic SEO Director to lead the company's organic growth engine in the AI-powered search era. This is a hands-on leadership role that goes beyond traditional SEO—you'll own ClickUp's acquisition strategy across Google Search, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and emerging answer engines, while building the team and workflows to execute at scale.
Key responsibilities include:
- Develop and execute ClickUp's organic acquisition strategy across Google, LLMs, communities, review platforms, and emerging discovery surfaces, adapting for an agentic and LLM-first landscape.
- Build AI-powered workflows and agents to automate content creation, analytical assessments, and other processes, championing experimentation and AI-first methodologies.
- Establish and manage strategic external partnerships with AI platforms, review ecosystems, and third-party publishers; guide internal teams across Reddit, G2, YouTube to maximize organic presence.
- Lead technical SEO oversight including site architecture, structured data, and international SEO strategy.
- Develop measurement frameworks and data-driven prioritization to identify growth opportunities and communicate performance to executive leadership.
- Act as the organic growth product owner for web engineering, scoping technical projects and owning the SEO roadmap alongside the web platform team.
- Own the content portfolio strategy, defining scalable approaches across editorial, programmatic, localization, and product-led experiences while managing quality governance at scale.
- Partner cross-functionally with Engineering, Performance Marketing, Content, Product Marketing, and Analytics as a deeply collaborative leader who also executes.
Required qualifications:
- 8+ years in SEO or organic growth at scale, including 3+ years in a leadership role (B2B SaaS preferred).
- Exceptional analytical skills; ability to separate signal from noise, question assumptions, and communicate recommendations with confidence.
- Deep understanding of AI-powered search and LLMs, with hands-on experience measuring AI visibility, citations, and LLM referral traffic using tools like Peec, AirOps, Profound, or Scrunch.
- Demonstrated experience building AI-powered workflows to automate processes and increase team leverage.
- Experience managing direct reports and building high-output teams.
- Track record building custom measurement and attribution frameworks, including dashboards (Hex, Looker Studio), particularly in emerging channels like AEO.
- Deep expertise in technical SEO, information architecture, content strategy, and on-site optimization.
- Low ego, high candor, bias toward action; preference for shipping imperfect experiments over waiting for perfect data.
Desirable experience includes CRO background, international SEO and localization leadership, deep technical understanding of LLM architecture, multi-property domain strategy, and AI agent deployment.
