SEO Lead, IT​/Tech

Our mission is to inspire entrepreneurs and shoppers to find something new. We buy great brands built on Shopify, unlocking liquidity for small business entrepreneurs looking to start new adventures. We manage nearly 50 brands with over 100,000 products across apparel, beauty, home goods, and electronics. Our team of e‑commerce experts and engineers uses proprietary technology and tooling, and leverages our size to grow our brands  million people have purchased Open Store products, and soon we’ll launch a consumer shopping app that helps people discover products in a new way.

Open Store was started in 2021 by top investor and operator Keith Rabois, a former executive at Pay Pal, Linked In, and Square, and a co‑founder of Opendoor. We are backed with $150M+ from world‑class investors such as Atomic, Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, and Lux Capital.

Open Store is building a world‑class Consumer Growth team and is looking for a builder who has deep SEO experience to lead the company’s SEO strategy and operations. We have a unique model, where we operate dozens of individual DTC brands, each of which has its own website. The SEO Lead will develop an SEO playbook that can be applied to all of these sites, manage the implementation of this playbook across priority sites, and partner with the Engineering and Storefronts teams to develop processes, systems and tools that allow for scalable investment in content and authority.

This is a very senior IC role with a potential to hire a small team based on demonstrated impact. First, we must stand up the function and initial strategy, and deliver impressive results with focused investments and resources.

• Own channel results, actions, roadmap, strategy, and prioritization
• Develop a programmatic SEO strategy and content working closely with engineering team
• Lead keyword analysis and traditional content creation
• Manage technical components of SEO to drive domain authority
• Partner with the Engineering, Data Science and Consumer Growth teams to develop scalable mechanisms for growing organic traffic and sales across dozens of sites (e.g., reviews/UGC content generation, cross‑portfolio analytics, content monetization)
• Serve as the company’s resident SEO expert, weighing in on technology decisions, brand acquisition reviews and changes in the external environment

• You thrive in fast‑paced environments. At this stage we’re still learning. You will iterate with engineers, analysts and product managers to focus on high impact work.
• You’ve done it before. You’ve kick‑started an SEO strategy before and led SEO efforts through a phase of rapid growth. You’ve made mistakes, learned lessons and are excited to do it again. Your experience will help us avoid pitfalls and move faster.
• You are strategic. You’re focused on where you’re going and build the strategies and plans to achieve the goal. You’re not afraid to admit something didn’t work and have backup plans brewing for your next test.

• 8+ years of professional experience with a track record of escalating impact and responsibility
• 5+ years of SEO experience at one or several consumer brands, marketplaces or retailers
• Comfortable working with internal teams and external resources, serving as the primary facilitator of a multi‑threaded strategy
• Demonstrated experience with the following tools:
  • Technical SEO Tools, e.g. Screaming Frog, Lumar (Deepcrawl), Oncrawl, Botify
  • General SEO Tool, e.g. Google Search Console, Google Analytics, SEMRush, Ahrefs, Brightedge
  • Data Manipulation Tools, e.g. Google Sheets, Microsoft Excel, SQL
  • Data Visualization Tool, e.g. Mode, Snowflake, Tableau

Open Store is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer where we welcome and celebrate differences. We are committed to providing a workspace that is safe and inclusive, where everyone feels supported, connected, and inspired to do their best work. If you require any accommodations to participate in our recruitment process, please inform us of your needs when we contact you to schedule an interview.

Compensation Range: $160K - $215K

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