Own the organic growth strategy and execution across our six memorial and obituary portals in Germany, Sweden, and Norway. We're sitting on a large, multi-market inventory of memorial pages with a 3–4× traffic upside that is entirely unworked – no active SEO ownership, no programmatic content strategy, no GEO positioning.
This is a build-it-yourself, first-of-its-kind role at Rapid Data, and it's built for someone in founder mode: you don't wait for a roadmap to be handed to you, you define the target state yourself, build the programmatic SEO architecture in close partnership with Engineering, and establish the content-as-marketplace playbook from scratch – the same model that made StepStone, ImmobilienScout24, and mobile.de category leaders in their verticals. You report into the Director Product, work directly with Engineering leadership on technical implementation, and operate with wide decision-making latitude as the recognized expert for organic growth across the organization, with visibility to the CTO, CRO, and CEO. If you've built something 0-to-1 before and love turning an empty field into a working system, this is your kind of role.
Senior Manager SEO & Growth Strategist (m/f/d)
Berlin
Full-time
Permanent employee
Job Description
Your tasks:
- Build and own the multi-market SEO strategy across DE, SE, and NO: keyword architecture, programmatic page templates, internal linking structure, and indexation at scale across our full page inventory
- Conduct a full technical SEO audit and drive resolution directly with Engineering: crawl budget, Core Web Vitals, Schema.org markup (Person, Event, BreadcrumbList, Obituary), JavaScript rendering (SSR/CSR), and sitemap infrastructure
- Design and build a unified event tracking and measurement framework for organic performance across all portals: Google Search Console, GA4, Ahrefs/Semrush – with regular KPI reporting to the VP Product and the wider executive team (CTO, CRO, CEO)
- Build GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) foundations: AI-crawler accessibility (GPTBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended), fact-structured content formatting, and visibility monitoring across Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT Search, and Perplexity
- Translate SEO requirements into clearly specified Engineering backlog tickets; prioritise and QA implementation independently
- Build an organic growth forecasting model: traffic potential per market, investment prioritisation, ROI projection
- Identify and develop Traffic Partnership opportunities (white-label integrations with regional newspapers and special-interest portals) and evaluate Paid Search as a complementary channel – scope expands as the function matures
Your skillset:
- Founder or builder mentality: you've built something from zero before – a growth function, a product, a business, a side project that scaled – and you default to action and hands-on building rather than waiting for a perfect brief or someone else's roadmap
- Extensive experience in SEO at a marketplace, classifieds, or large-scale UGC platform (Jobs, Real Estate, Automotive, Travel, or comparable) – template-level programmatic SEO, not page-by-page optimisation
- Proven track record scaling organic traffic across millions of individual pages; deep technical SEO expertise (crawl budget, structured data, rendering, sitemaps, robots.txt)
- Direct hands-on experience collaborating with Engineering teams: you write clean SEO tickets, argue prioritisation in sprint planning, and QA implementations yourself
- Multi-market / multi-domain SEO across languages and geographies; Local SEO experience a strong plus
- Strong analytical foundation: Matomo, Google Search Console, Ahrefs or Semrush, GA4; SQL a plus
- Commercial mindset: you can build an organic growth business case and present it credibly to investors and executive leadership
- First practical exposure to GEO / AI-search optimisation a plus
- Fluent English and German required
Find us here:
- Full ownership of organic growth as a function, built from the ground up – tooling decisions, strategy, and roadmap – with wide decision-making latitude as the recognized expert in your domain
- A true builder's canvas: no legacy SEO function to untangle, no politics to navigate – you create the playbook, the tooling, and the results yourself, and get to see your work compound at scale
- Direct line to the Director Product, with visibility to the CTO, CRO, and CEO as part of the executive team
- International scope from day one across Germany, Sweden, and Norway – each market with a substantial, largely untapped page inventory and a 3–4× upside still on the table
- A Berlin office that keeps you close to Engineering and Product, with hybrid flexibility
- Meaningful work as the market leader in funeral technology in Europe, backed by one of the world's most respected growth investors
About us
Rapid Data is a leading software provider for the funeral industry in Europe and has been synonymous with innovation and progress since 1989. It is our passion to develop state-of-the-art ERP and CRM solutions that revolutionize the way funeral service providers work.
We are more than just a company – we are pioneers of change and stand at the forefront to lead the industry into a new era. Our goal is not only to be present in Europe but to establish a global presence, supporting every funeral service provider and their partners with our all-in-one technology platform.
Driven by our vision and supported by one of the most demanding and renowned private equity investors in the world, we are in a phase of accelerated growth. Every day is a new opportunity for us to push our boundaries and realize our dreams. We are ready to change the world – be part of this exciting journey with Rapid Data.