GEO/SEO Senior Manager

NOTE: This is a FULLY remote role, but the candidate must be within Europe to collaborate with their team, peers, and internal customers. You do not have to be in the specific country or city shown in this listing, but please only apply if you are physically based within Europe. Trusted by 20,000+ property managers worldwide, Hostaway is an industry leading, AI-powered vacation rental management platform designed for professional short-term rental operators. Hostaway brings everything together for greater efficiency and faster growth. Profitable, high-growth, and the first short-term rental PMS unicorn 🦄. Join us at our most exciting stage yet! Learn more about our recent valuation and story here. About the role We’re looking for a senior GEO/SEO expert to own how Hostaway is discovered across traditional search and AI-powered (LLM) experiences. This is a senior individual contributor role with broad ownership across GEO (AEO), SEO, including measurement, experimentation, and cross-functional execution. You’ll help us understand how AI is changing the buyer journey and build the strategy, systems, and programs that improve our visibility, authority, and business impact. Your mission Drive Organic Demand: Own the global GEO and SEO strategy, roadmap, and performance to increase revenue from organic demand. Use analytics to improve: Build dashboards, reporting, playbooks, and processes that connect AI and search performance to engagement, pipeline, and revenue. Create targeted campaigns: Partner with Content and Product Marketing to create targeted campaigns addressing the unique needs Hostaway buyers have across different geos. Win in AI LLM discoverability: Create programs that ensure Hostaway is visible, cited and recommended across the topics, prompts, queries, and buyer questions from top to bottom of the sales funnel Broaden distribution: Identify the third-party sources, publications, communities, and platforms that influence how AI systems understand and recommend our brand and work with the team to secure content placements. Improve technical performance : Own technical SEO and AI discoverability, including structured data, entity optimization, crawlability, indexation, internal linking, and site architecture. Run experiments: Use test and learn mentality to determine what improves AI visibility and organic performance, and turn findings into repeatable best practices. Own and evolve the GEO/SEO technology stack: Actively monitor the landscape to understand what the emerging technologies are, test and learn from them, and make recommendations for implementation. Job requirements Deep GEO/SEO expertise: You have 5+ years of experience in GEO/SEO, organic growth, search strategy, or a related discipline, with hands-on expertise across technical optimization, content strategy, structured data, entity optimization, and measurement. AI search fluency: You deeply understand how AI is changing buyer discovery, research, and evaluation, and how brands need to adapt across traditional and generative search. Modern measurement mindset: You know how to measure AI mentions, citations, share of voice, prompt performance, competitive visibility, and downstream business outcomes. Strong command of the toolset: You have experience with platforms such as Semrush, Ahrefs, Peec, Conductor, Google Search Console, GA4, or similar tools used to monitor and improve search and AI visibility. Analytical and experimental: You use data to identify opportunities, form hypotheses, run experiments, and continuously improve performance. AI-native: You use AI regularly to accelerate research, analysis, optimization, experimentation, and execution, and you stay current as the AI landscape evolves. High-leverage collaborator: You partner closely with Content, Product Marketing, Web, Demand Generation, Communications, and Analytics to turn GEO/SEO insights into coordinated action across the buyer journey. Able to navigate ambiguity: You are comfortable operating in a fast-evolving discipline where best practices are still being defined. You can separate meaningful signals from hype, prioritize the highest-impact opportunities, and build a clear path forward with incomplete information. What we offer Competitive Compensation: We offer competitive pay based on market rates in the country of the applicant. 100% Remote: Enjoy the freedom to work from anywhere within your country of residence—be it a co-working space, your home office, or even your dining room table. The choice is yours. Just don’t ask to work in our office (we don’t have one). Equity: Every role in our company comes with valuable stock options in a fast-growing and profitable company. This ensures we all share in the company’s success. Values-Driven Leadership: Our Core Values are not just words we’ve written to make us feel good. We leverage them daily when making strategic and tactical decisions. Professional Growth: Our rapid growth offers unparalleled learning and development opportunities, along with a multitude of career advancement opportunities. Annual Paid Leave: The specific amounts vary by country and are aligned with country and/or contract-specific norms. Geographic Specific Benefits: As an international employer, we offer different country-specific benefits such as Health Insurance and Pensions in countries where these perks are customary. The specifics depend on the country of the applicant. Dynamic Team Culture: As a global company with team members in over 40 countries, our diverse and international culture fuels our innovation and creativity, providing a key pillar to our success (and making it a lot of fun to work here).

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