Technical SEO Lead | EU

TECHNICAL SEO LEAD | Based in EU

As Technical SEO Lead, you'll be the person who makes sure Hostinger's organic foundation is solid, scalable, and ready for what search looks like today — and tomorrow. That means being as comfortable in a staging environment before a major launch as you are presenting a roadmap to stakeholders. It means connecting crawl budgets to billings and knowing which technical debt is actually costing us traffic.

This is a senior IC role — no direct reports, high cross-functional influence. The craft is the job.

Diagnose and fix

• Run continuous technical audits across Hostinger's large-scale, multilingual site — and own the fix end-to-end, not just the ticket.
• Lead pre- and post-migration audits for domain migrations, re-platforming, URL restructures, and CMS or framework changes.
• Investigate performance anomalies (traffic drops, ranking shifts, crawl issues) and resolve them before they compound.

Own the roadmap

• Build and drive the technical SEO roadmap — prioritized by commercial impact, sequenced with Product and Engineering planning cycles.
• Build SEO QA into pre- and post-launch workflows: review staging environments, prevent regressions, catch issues before they cost rankings.
• Build the business case for technical SEO projects — owning the impact, effort, and prioritization rationale end-to-end.

Build for scale

• Design and maintain technical SEO automations: indexability monitoring, sitemap validation, hreflang checks, redirect monitoring — using GSC API, DataForSEO MCP, and n8n.
• Own technical SEO best practices documentation so DRIs across SEO, Content, and Localization can enforce consistent standards without reinventing them.
• Run technical SEO split tests and advise on methodology for broader specialist testing initiatives.

Stay ahead

• Own Hostinger's technical readiness for AI-powered discovery — structured data for LLM citation, AI bot crawlability, and monitoring how AI crawlers access content at scale.
• Translate technical wins into language stakeholders care about — not "847 crawl errors fixed" but "we unlocked X pages blocking organic traffic to [product]."

Must-haves:

• 5+ years of hands-on technical SEO on large, complex websites — with a track record of diagnosing real problems and shipping real fixes.
• Multi-locale SEO at scale.
• Deep expertise across the full technical stack: crawlability, indexation, site architecture, structured data, Core Web Vitals, JS rendering, hreflang, and multilingual SEO.
• Experience leading pre- and post-migration audits — you know what breaks, why it breaks, and how to stop it.
• Commercially minded: you prioritize by business impact, connect technical work to acquisition and billings, and never present a finding without a "so what".
• Confident working with engineering teams — you can scope a ticket, validate the fix, and explain the trade-off to a non-technical stakeholder in the same breath.
• Experience building technical SEO automations — Python, API integrations, or workflow tools; you reduce manual overhead, you don't just live with it.

Proficient with core tooling: GSC, Screaming Frog, Ahrefs, Lumar or Botif.

Nice-to-haves:

• Hands-on experience with AI search readiness: structured data for LLM citation, entity optimization, AI crawler monitoring.
• Familiarity with DataForSEO, GSC API, and workflow automation tools like n8n.
• Experience with JS-rendered environments (React, Next.js).

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