Metanomaly

Head of SEO

Japan (Remote)RemotePosted 4 days ago
Full TimeExecutiveRemoteVisa SponsorshipJP

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Job Description

Small SEO team. Short path from decision to production You work directly with engineers, designers, PMs and analysts, without a ticket queue in between Engineering resource is allocated. You are a dec

Key Highlights

  • Small SEO team. Short path from decision to production
  • You work directly with engineers, designers, PMs and analysts, without a ticket queue in between
  • Engineering resource is allocated. You are a decision maker inside the team, not an advisor to it
  • Reports to the Head of Growth
  • Tokyo, on-site / remote hybrid. Team communication is in English, and Japanese is not required to work here

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

  • 6+ years in SEO, most of it technical, including a site of 100k+ URLs
  • Experience with UGC, marketplace or database-driven sites, where pages are generated rather than written
  • You can read and debug HTML, JSON-LD, HTTP status codes, canonical and hreflang yourself, and trace the gap between what a JavaScript framework renders and what Google actually sees
  • You’ve analyzed server logs and changed a decision you had already made because of what they showed
  • Track record of getting template or site architecture changes implemented through an engineering team. Migrations or large restructures welcome
  • Basic SQL
  • Able to define underspecified work yourself instead of waiting for direction
  • Honest estimation, and early flagging when something is blocked or bigger than it looked
  • English at native or fluent level
  • Able to discuss the relationship between generative AI and creator communities calmly

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience running SEO experiments with the success threshold set in advance
  • Experience running SEO across multiple languages, including non-Latin scripts
  • Experience with programmatic page generation at the tens-of-thousands scale
  • Japanese or Chinese language ability, or consumer product experience in the Japanese market
  • Experience measuring or improving visibility in LLM-based search
  • Interest in anime, otaku culture and creator communities. Interest in AI generation

Skills & Technologies

ReactTypeScriptTailwindCSSNode.jsGraphQLPostgreSQLHTMLJavaScriptSQL

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Job Details

Employment Type

Full Time

Experience Level

Executive

Location

Japan (Remote)

Work Mode

Remote

Posted

4 days ago

Visa Sponsorship

Available

Country

JP