SEO Lead, Brightwheel
$98-150k
Offers Equity
Online platform for early education management
Posted today
Online platform for early education management
501-1000 employees
Posted today
$98-150k
Offers Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To improve education for young children, given the vital importance of early education for later life.
Role
Who you are
- 5–8+ years of SEO experience, ideally in B2B SaaS or a high-growth consumer tech environment
- Proven track record independently managing complex, end-to-end SEO programs with measurable impact on organic traffic and pipeline
- Deep expertise in technical SEO, content strategy, and AEO/GEO (AI search/LLM citation optimization)
- Hands-on experience with AI citation and visibility tracking tools (e.g., Profound, Ahrefs Brand Radar, or similar) and a clear point of view on Share of Voice, Visibility Score, and citation-share metrics
- Experience implementing structured data/schema, entity optimization, and emerging machine-readability standards (e.g., llms.txt) to improve AI citation performance
- Experience managing high-volume content production workflows, including AI-assisted content at scale, balanced against content freshness/refresh strategy and E-E-A-T/quality standards
- Strong analytical skills — comfortable pulling and synthesizing data from GA4, Search Console, SEMrush/Ahrefs, Profound, and CRM to drive decisions
- Demonstrated ability to independently structure strategic recommendations and present to senior leadership with minimal direction
- Strong cross-functional collaborator — viewed as a thought partner by growth, product, and content peers
- Demonstrated ability to work independently in a remote, full-time environment
What the job involves
- We're looking for an experienced SEO Manager to own and scale our non-paid traffic and lead generation strategy full-time. This is a senior individual contributor role — you'll independently design and execute a full-stack SEO/GEO program at a time when we're scaling content production aggressively and navigating a rapidly evolving AI search landscape, from Google's core updates to the rise of ChatGPT, Gemini, and AI Overviews as primary discovery surfaces
- This is a hands-on role. You will own SEO and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) strategy end-to-end — from technical audits and keyword architecture to large-scale AI-assisted content production, AEO (Answer Engine Optimization), and AI citation/visibility tracking — directly impacting our high-intent traffic and MQL targets
- You are a systems thinker who understands how SEO fits into a broader demand generation engine, and who treats AI search visibility (citations, Share of Voice, Visibility Score) as seriously as traditional rankings. You are deeply analytical, highly adaptable, and comfortable operating in fast-moving, ambiguous environments. You monitor algorithm and AI search shifts closely, recalibrate quickly, and bring external best practices into the team
- You have independently managed complex SEO programs without relying heavily on engineering or content teams to drive results, and you know how to balance aggressive content scale against content quality and E-E-A-T — you don't chase page-count vanity metrics at the expense of pipeline impact
- Own and execute SEO and GEO/AEO strategy across website and content channels, directly impacting high-intent traffic and MQL targets
- Drive and manage large-scale content production (2K+ pages/month target) using AI-powered workflows, with a focus on high-intent audiences — ECE directors, franchise operators, and childcare providers
- Build and optimize content hubs targeting high-value search categories (e.g., state compliance, childcare management, billing & payments), and run a content freshness/refresh program alongside net-new production
- Own AI citation and visibility tracking (e.g., via Profound or similar platforms) across Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Gemini, and other LLM surfaces — monitoring Visibility Score, Share of Voice, and citation volume/share by page and workstream, and benchmarking against competitors
- Implement technical AEO foundations — structured data/schema markup, entity optimization, FAQ markup, llms.txt, and other machine-readability improvements — to increase citation likelihood in AI-generated answers
- Design and optimize comparison, pricing, and decision-style content, and adapt landing experiences (e.g., homepage) as AI referral traffic patterns shift toward broader, top-of-funnel category queries
- Monitor and adapt to major algorithm changes (Google core updates, AI search shifts from ChatGPT/Gemini) and recalibrate strategy and targets accordingly, including guarding against AI Overview cannibalization and content-farm/E-E-A-T risk as production scales
- Independently lead cross-functional planning sessions with content, product, and analytics teams to align on traffic and conversion goals
- Identify, scope, and champion new SEO/GEO/AEO opportunities — from keyword strategy and technical SEO to AI citation optimization — and drive from concept to launch
- Build and present clear performance reporting and strategic recommendations to senior stakeholders, including recurring scorecard/MBR-style reviews connecting SEO/GEO work to pipeline and revenue
- Coach and share best practices with internal team members on SEO and AI-search functional skills
Our take
Childcare and teaching is a profession fraught with pressures and paperwork and yet it remains relatively ill attended to by advances in tech and software. Brightwheel want to revolutionize this, focusing on facilitating the administrative and communicative relationship between schools, carers and parents or guardians.
As tech enters the classrooms there are various apps focusing on the education itself with fewer actually handling the communications for schools. Brightwheel's platform helps increase parental and teacher engagement with students everyday, while helping small education businesses save money, time, and to grow.
Brightwheel is carving out a name for itself as a service valuable for its exciting and useful new updates. It was quick to adapt to school closures too by offering distance learning capabilities and health testing. And on top of this, it also caters to childcare in lower-income areas with a freemium model. Making its a go-to platform for early education.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Feb 2021
$55m
SERIES C
Oct 2018
$21m
SERIES B
Total funding: $88.8m
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Dave Vasen
(Founder & CEO)Dave began their career at Morgan Stanley, before spending a year at Cisco and 3 years as a Bain Consultant. They then worked at Amazon for 2 years, and after taking on several Advisory roles they founded Brightwheel in 2014, serving as the CEO since.
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