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SEO Strategist/Growth SEO Lead

Retell AI - Redwood City, CA, United States - In-office - posted 2026-08-28

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Salary: USD 170,000 - 230,000 / annual

Retell AI is a voice AI platform transforming customer experience for enterprises like CVS/Aetna, American Airlines, Lenovo, and Grab. The company has scaled to $80M ARR with a team of 50, backed by Y Combinator and other leading investors, and is valued at over $1.5B. They're recognized as the #3 fastest-growing software company (G2 2026) and #1 best place to work in the Bay Area. You will own organic growth end-to-end as an SEO Strategist, building a compounding growth engine across Google search, AI-native surfaces (ChatGPT, Perplexity), and programmatic/product-driven SEO. This is a high-ownership role focused on designing systems and building content moats rather than tactical page optimization. Key responsibilities include: - Define SEO strategy across search and AI discovery channels - Create and maintain core content pillars that dominate key topics, ensuring consistency across docs, blog, landing pages, and product - Design scalable growth systems using programmatic SEO and repeatable content loops to turn one idea into hundreds or thousands of high-quality pages - Leverage AI deeply to generate, maintain, and evolve content with workflows that keep content fresh and accurate - Own technical SEO, site architecture, indexing, crawlability, and performance optimization - Partner with product and engineering to embed SEO into product surfaces and influence how the product itself generates organic growth - Experiment aggressively, move fast, learn fast, and double down on what works Requirements: - 5+ years of experience in SEO or growth roles - Proven track record of driving 10x+ growth through SEO - Strong experience with technical SEO and on-page optimization - Hands-on execution; you ship, not just plan - Experience using AI tools to scale content and workflows Nice to have: - Programmatic SEO experience - Experience optimizing for AI-native search (ChatGPT, Perplexity) - Background in SaaS, developer tools, or technical products - Startup experience or working in fast-moving environments

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