SEO Specialist
About the Role
You’d be our first dedicated SEO hire, taking ownership of a channel the founders run today. Organic search is already how most people find Renée Space, your job is to turn it from a promising channel into a dependable one, with full autonomy over strategy and a direct line to engineering and content.
About Company
At Renée Space, we’re building a space where people can feel heard, understand themselves better, and navigate life’s challenges with more confidence. Join us to help shape a more thoughtful approach to emotional wellbeing while learning, growing, and doing meaningful work together.
We pair clinically reviewed guidance with Renée, an AI companion that listens, reflects and helps people take the next small step. We’re a small, remote-first team who believe support should feel human, unhurried and within everyone’s reach.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Own the organic search channel end to end, from strategy to measurable growth in qualified traffic.
- Run keyword research and write content briefs for our blog and landing pages.
- Plan and execute backlink outreach campaigns, building relationships with relevant publishers and communities.
- Conduct technical SEO audits and work with engineering to fix crawl issues, Core Web Vitals, structured data, and sitemap gaps.
- Monitor rankings, indexing, and site health in Google Search Console and Ahrefs, and report on what is and isn’t working.
- Keep metadata, internal linking, and on-page SEO consistent across new and existing pages.
- Stay on top of search and AI-discovery trends in mental-health and wellness, and adapt our strategy to them.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on SEO experience with results you can show and explain.
- Proven backlink outreach experience, campaigns you ran yourself, not just briefed.
- Comfortable with technical SEO: crawling, indexing, Core Web Vitals, structured data, and sitemaps.
- Fluent with Google Search Console, Ahrefs (or similar), and GA4.
- Strong written English, briefs, outreach emails, and reports are a daily part of this role.
- Able to work independently in a remote, async team.
Nice to Have
- Experience in mental health, wellness, or another trust-sensitive space.
- Familiarity with Next.js sites and how rendering affects SEO.
- Experience optimising for AI answer engines and LLM-driven discovery.
- Basic HTML/CSS skills, enough to spec a fix precisely for engineers.
What We Offer
- Fully remote, work from anywhere in the world.
- Flexible hours and an async-first culture, we care about outcomes, not time zones.
- A small team where your work is visible and ships quickly.
- Budget for the tools, courses, and equipment you need to do your best work.
- Generous, trust-based time off, rest is part of doing meaningful work.
- A product that genuinely helps people feel better, and a team that acts like it.
Hiring Process
- Intro call (30 min), mutual fit, your background, and what you’re looking for.
- Case review (45–60 min), walk us through past work you’re proud of and how you think.
- Working session (60 min), a realistic, scoped exercise with the team, no free labour.
- Offer, we aim to get from first call to decision within two weeks.