SEO Manager — United States

About The Company

Zoom is a leading enterprise collaboration platform that enables people to stay connected and accomplish more together. With products such as Zoom Contact Center, Zoom Phone, Zoom Events, Zoom Apps, Zoom Rooms, and Zoom Webinars, Zoom has established itself as a trusted solution for seamless communication. Our team of problem-solvers works at a fast pace to design innovative solutions centered on our customers and users. We foster a collaborative, growth-focused environment that offers ample opportunities for professional development and career advancement. At Zoom, we are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where every individual’s unique contributions drive our success.

About The Role

This hands-on technical leadership role is pivotal in shaping how Zoom is discovered, understood, and surfaced across traditional search engines and emerging AI-powered discovery platforms. As the Technical SEO Lead, you will take ownership of the technical SEO foundation across a complex, multi-platform web ecosystem that includes Optimizely CMS, WordPress, custom web applications, and modern frontend frameworks. Collaborating closely with SEO and Website Engineering leadership, you will drive high-impact implementations, develop reusable SEO capabilities and automation, and establish engineering standards that ensure Zoom’s digital presence remains cutting-edge. Your work will directly impact organic visibility, pipeline, and revenue, influencing architecture decisions that determine Zoom’s representation across Google, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and next-generation AI web experiences.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in technical SEO, web engineering, or related disciplines, preferably within B2B SaaS or enterprise technology environments.

• Deep expertise in technical SEO fundamentals including crawlability, indexation, rendering, canonicalization, redirects, URL architecture, XML sitemaps, robots directives, structured data, internal linking, hreflang, and JavaScript-based web applications.

• Hands-on proficiency with JavaScript, PHP, HTML, and CSS for diagnosing and implementing SEO fixes directly in codebases and CMS platforms.

• Proven experience improving Core Web Vitals and web performance metrics such as LCP, INP, CLS, JavaScript execution, rendering performance, image optimization, font loading, third-party scripts, caching, CDN configuration, API performance, and server response times.

• Experience building scalable SEO automation, monitoring, and CI/CD quality gates across enterprise CMS platforms such as Optimizely and WordPress.

• Strong understanding of structured data, ••••••••, JSON-LD, semantic HTML, and technical foundations for AEO and AI-powered search platforms.

• Familiarity with emerging AI search technologies including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI.

• Advanced analytical skills using SEO tools such as Google Search Console, Screaming Frog, Semrush, Ahrefs, Sitebulb, and application observability tools.

• Strong leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills with the ability to influence engineering architecture and establish technical standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical SEO roadmap and execution across Zoom’s global web ecosystem, prioritizing initiatives based on SEO analysis, audits, crawl data, search performance, server logs, and business priorities.

• Translate SEO and AEO requirements into technical designs, development specifications, and production implementations across Optimizely CMS, WordPress, custom web applications, APIs, and frontend frameworks.

• Own technical solutions for crawlability, indexability, XML sitemaps, robots.txt, canonicalization, redirects, URL architecture, metadata, structured data, internal linking, hreflang, and rendering strategies including client-side, server-side, static generation, and incremental rendering.

• Build and scale reusable SEO capabilities such as centralized metadata services, automated sitemap generation, structured-data components, redirect services, internal-linking systems, and standardized SEO configurations.

• Drive Core Web Vitals and web performance improvements, addressing issues related to JavaScript execution, rendering, caching, CDN configuration, images, third-party scripts, APIs, and server response times.

• Develop automated testing, monitoring, dashboards, CI/CD quality gates, proactive alerting, and validation scripts to detect and prevent technical SEO issues and regressions.

• Establish the technical foundation for AEO and AI search by implementing structured data, semantic HTML, machine-readable metadata, entity and product schemas, and machine-readable endpoints.

• Evaluate emerging AI search and agentic web standards and translate them into practical engineering requirements.

• Define and maintain technical SEO standards and governance across platforms, serving as the technical authority through reference architectures, launch-readiness criteria, design reviews, and code reviews.

• Partner with SEO, Content, Product Marketing, Web Engineering, Product, and senior stakeholders to translate search strategy into scalable technical solutions that improve discoverability and organic growth.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits program supporting physical, mental, emotional, and financial health.

• Work-life balance initiatives and flexible hybrid work environment.

• Opportunities for professional growth and career advancement.

• Inclusive and collaborative workplace culture committed to employee happiness.

• Competitive salary range with total direct compensation including base salary, bonus, and equity.

Equal Opportunity

Zoom is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We are committed to fair hiring practices that evaluate every candidate based on skills, experience, and potential. All applicant information is kept confidential in accordance with EEO guidelines. If you require accommodations during the hiring process due to a qualifying medical disability, please let us know so we can support you at every step.