Senior SEO Manager, Proton
Encrypted email, drive, and VPN services
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Encrypted email, drive, and VPN services
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To fight for a better internet that is secure and private by default.
Role
Who you are
- We're looking for someone who brings most of the following:
- Proven experience growing organic traffic through SEO
- Strong understanding of technical SEO and how modern websites work
- Experience working with Google Search Console, Ahrefs, Screaming Frog, SEMrush, or similar SEO platforms
- Confidence working with data to turn complex problems into clear, actionable insights
- Experience collaborating with engineering, product, or development teams
- A naturally curious mindset—you enjoy understanding why something happens, not just what to change
- You're curious, analytical, and enjoy digging into complex problems
- You're just as comfortable thinking strategically as you are getting hands-on with implementation
- You challenge assumptions with data, enjoy working across teams, and care more about impact than activity
Desirable
- Experience working on large-scale websites such as ecommerce, SaaS, marketplaces, or publisher platforms
- SQL and/or BigQuery experience
- Deep expertise in site architecture, crawl optimisation, and JavaScript SEO
- Experience with BI tools such as Looker Studio, Tableau, or Power BI
- Familiarity with SEO testing or experimentation frameworks
What the job involves
- The Organic Growth team owns Proton's SEO strategy across all products and markets — one of our highest-leverage acquisition channels
- We operate at the intersection of engineering, product, and marketing: we don't just recommend changes, we ship them
- The team works directly with engineers to influence how our platform is built and treats search as a technical discipline first, not a content afterthought
- You'll have real autonomy, real data, and a real seat at the table
- If you're used to fighting to get SEO taken seriously, this will feel different
- This is not a "tweak meta tags" job. You will solve real technical challenges, work with large datasets, and influence how our platform is built
- We are not treating SEO as an afterthought. You will have autonomy to shape strategy backed by a team that invests in organic search
- You'll own SEO from strategy through execution, working closely with product and engineering teams to drive measurable business growth
- Own the SEO roadmap, from identifying opportunities to prioritising initiatives and measuring impact
- Lead technical SEO initiatives across crawling, indexation, site architecture, Core Web Vitals, rendering, and JavaScript SEO
- Analyse organic performance using Google Search Console, Ahrefs, Oncrawl, Screaming Frog, and other SEO tools
- Work with large datasets (SQL and BigQuery are a plus) to uncover opportunities beyond standard reporting
- Partner with engineering and product teams to ship technical improvements that move the needle
- Drive international SEO strategy, including hreflang implementation and scalable site architecture
- Collaborate with content teams to identify search intent and prioritise high-impact content opportunities
- Support authority growth through digital PR and strategic link acquisition
- Build reporting that connects SEO performance to traffic, revenue, and business growth
- Design, run, and evaluate SEO experiments to continuously improve performance
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Proton is a Geneva-based startup founded by former CERN worker and internet privacy advocate Andy Yen. It provides internet users with encrypted webmail, calendar, drive, and VPN services.
Proton maintains its pro-privacy ethos using a Swiss VPN, protected by strict Swiss privacy laws. In essence, it has established a connection between the personal and the political, smartly utilising the country’s national laws to benefit people and organisations globally. Proton also funds charities and movements such as the World Wide Web Foundation and Netblocks, further cementing it as an influential NGO.
Perhaps Proton’s most important quality is its determination to maintain independence from advertisers and companies. Originally founded on donations, Proton has funded itself via grants rather than venture capital so that all of its customer's data is never at risk of being mined. One effect of this is that to keep up with the increasing competition in the data privacy sector, Proton has expanded its services to allow more cross-selling and simultaneously has more products to offer, such as drive and calendar privacy.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- These vary by location and type of contract but expect support on your vacation, parental leave, refreshment if working from the office, learning and development opportunities, equity for shared success, flexible working hours and remote work, company events, and team-building activities.
Company HQ
Plan-les-Ouates, GE
Leadership
Andy Yen
(Founder & CEO)Previously PhD Researcher at CERN
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