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
Visa sponsorship available

Own non-brand organic acquisition across EN/JA/KO/ZH as a number, and decide which page types and which markets get the investment
Set the index policy for auto-generated pages: what gets indexed, and where we stop spending crawl budget
Fix technical SEO with engineering, with SSR as the foundation
Own visibility in AI search (AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity) as a measured channel
Make the calls on team, tooling and outside partners, and build the team

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

While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following.

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

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