SEO Manager

  • Full-time

Company Description

BlaBlaCar is the global leader in long-distance carpooling. We are an innovative and fast-growing company building a unique community of members to transform the way people travel!

For more information about us, please visit www.BlaBlaCar.com/DreamJobs

Job Description

Why join us?

BlaBlaCar is looking for a SEO manager based in Paris who would oversee all our domains across the world. As such, you will manage our SEO activities in several countries dealing with diverse Search Engines like Google, Yandex or Bing. The role is extremely critical given importance of SEO traffic for BlaBlaCar. It also includes our App Store Optimization needs

You will be joining BlaBlaCar at a very exciting SEO period, as our product is constantly evolving and so is our competitive environment.

To turn these changes into opportunities, we’re looking for an expert with strong business sense, project management skills and entrepreneurial spirit. While being embedded in the Tech team, you will have multiple stakeholders from Product, Content, Design, and Marketing teams as well as our different local teams abroad (France, Spain, Germany, Russia etc.)


What you will directly contribute to:

  • Owning the SEO expertise in-house and being identified as such across teams

  • Reactively and proactively making recommendation on our Product decisions so they maximize SEO impact

  • Preparing for Mobile First Indexation

  • Defining an offensive SEO strategy and roadmap, especially on travel-related searches

  • Executing this strategy and roadmap, with support of different teams

  • Collecting, formatting and analysing SEO KPIs to measure performance

  • Re-defining the SEO role at BlaBlaCar and extending the team if impact proven

  • Fostering a SEO culture across the company

  • Building strong SEO position in new countries and new businesses where BlaBlaCar is deploying (beyond carpooling)

Qualifications

What you will need to be successful

  • 5 years of SEO experience (not only agency), with Tech focus

  • Mastering both on-site and off-site SEO dimensions with emphasis on on-site

  • Being able to build business cases (estimating impact of changes) in order to determine roadmap

  • Deep knowledge of monitoring tools (eg. SEMRush etc)

  • Having worked in a start up environment

  • Having defined SEO strategy for large scale tech projects is a strong plus

  • Precise knowledge of Yandex is an advantage

  • Botify certification is an advantage

  • Fluent in English and in French (other languages are appreciated)

  • International work or study experience is a significant advantage

Additional Information

A few practical details about the role:

  • Start: As soon as you are ready!

  • Location: Paris

  • Contract: Long-term contract (CDI)

  • Benefits: Competitive package combined with challenging career opportunities in a high-growth environment

What we offer all of our employees:

  • A start-up spirit that fosters agility, teamwork and impact;

  • Challenging career opportunities in a high-growth and fast-paced environment;

  • An inspiring working environment including state-of-the-art office spaces;

  • Free carpooling to live our value “Think it. Build it. Use it.”;

  • Annual BlaBlaBreak which takes us all for an unforgettable weekend;

  • Weekly BlaBlaTalks when we learn from each other;

  • And many more benefits - check them out on BlaBlaCar.com/dreamjobs.

What is next?

If you are ready to join our exciting journey, please apply below: upload your resume and cover letter both in English (PDF format). Kindly note that only complete applications will be reviewed by our hiring team and that all your information will be kept confidential.


You can expect us to review your application within the following two weeks. If your application and profile fit our requirements,we will invite you for a phone interview, followed by two/three in-house interview sessions.