Lead Product Manager, SEO (Remote - United States)
Yelp
Summary
Yelp engineering culture is driven by our values: we’re a cooperative team that values individual authenticity and encourages creative solutions to problems. All new engineers deploy working code their first week, and we strive to broaden individual impact with support from managers, mentors, and teams. At the end of the day, we’re all about helping our users, growing as engineers, and having fun in a collaborative environment.
For 20 years, Yelp has been synonymous with helping consumers discover and connect with great local businesses - from restaurants and nail salons to movers and plumbers. With unmatched local business information, photos, and review content, Yelp provides a one-stop local platform to discover, connect and transact with local businesses of all sizes by making it easy to request a quote, join a waitlist, and make a reservation, appointment, or purchase.
Currently, Yelp experiences 4 billion sessions and 100 million monthly active users in the US alone and has continued to grow organically. Yelp sees an opportunity for exponential growth by doubling down on efforts to address all local needs beyond finding restaurants. with potential for expansion in untapped markets and international areas, we expect transformational growth.
The Product Manager, SEO is a critical role within our high-performing product team to drive Yelp's critical SEO efforts. You will play a key role in achieving our vision of becoming the top SEO team in the market. Utilizing your strong skills and experience, you will own the SEO roadmap, implementing new strategies, and enhancing existing SEO levers such as structured data, internal linking, and meta optimization. You will collaborate with product and engineering teams with deep SEO expertise to identify leverage points and efficiencies.
The culture at Yelp is a unique blend of a dynamic startup environment with the stability and resources of a successful public company. You will have full ownership of your focus area and be able to make fast decisions in a highly collaborative setting.
This opportunity is fully remote and does not require you to be located in any particular state within the US. We welcome applicants from throughout the US. We’d love to have you apply, even if you don’t feel you meet every single requirement in this posting. At Yelp, we’re looking for great people, not just those who simply check off all the boxes.
What you'll do:
- Own Yelp’s SEO efforts - including creating new SEO levers, optimizing existing levers, testing strategy/execution, and contributing to cross-company initiative as part of the SEO center of excellence.
- Develop and execute the vision and roadmap for SEO features.
- Understand both end users (search engines and Yelp visitors) and build products and features that will further enhance growth without negatively impacting the consumer experience.
- Partner closely with the tech organization, and other consumer PM teams, to ensure alignment, partnership and outcome delivery.
- Build a SEO toolkit, that enables the turning of dials, to support targeted growth.Use data to inform decision making on prioritization of roadmap and optimization of SEO experiments.
- Mentor, and support the hiring efforts to grow a world-class SEO product team.
What it takes to succeed:
- Multiple years of SEO product management experience.
- Experience at a top-tier consumer or marketplace business that is rooted in A/B testing and witnessed massive user growth is highly preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to understand a business and how to set product strategy.
- Strong understanding and track record of implementing SEO product growth mechanics, ideally in a consumer marketplace/social business.
- Proven experience in managing full product development lifecycle, from research and concept to release and future evolution in a high growth, scale-up environment.
- Strong product sense and an ability to think about the business broadly.
- Experience fostering an inclusive, collaborative, and accountable team culture.
- Passionate about Yelp’s mission of connecting people to great local businesses.
- Compensation range is $120,000-315,000 annually. You may also be offered a bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits.
- This opportunity has the option to be fully remote in all locations across the US.
- You can find more information about Yelp's five star benefits here!
- A Bachelor’s Degree or an equivalent work experience is required.
What you'll get:
- Compensation range is $188,000-335,000 annually. You may also be offered a bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits.
- This opportunity has the option to be fully remote in all locations across the US.
- You can find more information about Yelp's five star benefits here!
