--- title: 'SEO Manager at fonio' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/seo-manager-fonio-vienna-a6vvvgq5kck2' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-05' --- # SEO Manager at fonio - **Company:** fonio - **Location:** Vienna, Austria - **Compensation:** €65k–€85k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-10-06 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-05 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fonio/fd152dac-fac9-48b1-a594-a9530342a4a6 ## Job description ## Your Role You’ll be fonio’s in-house SEO Manager. The goal is to rank #1 for every relevant query on Google and in AI search tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity, in DACH and in every other market we enter. You own strategy and execution. You tell the website team how pages should be built, and you set the direction for keyword research across all markets. ## What You’ll Do - Own SEO strategy and execution across all our markets. - Define how pages are built and structured, and work closely with the website and engineering teams on technical SEO. - Lead keyword research and decide how we win in both classic search and AI-generated answers. - Write content and commission it from others so we have what we need to rank. - Manage an SEO budget of €20,000–30,000 per month. - Work with agencies where it makes sense, while keeping the strategy and know-how in-house with you. - Scale SEO as fonio grows, and build your own team over the medium term. Who We’re Looking For Must-have: - SEO has been your main job, at scale: you’ve owned it full-time and you have results to show. The industry (tech, consumer, anything else) matters less than the scale you’ve worked at. - International SEO experience: you know how to win in markets beyond your home market. - Fluent English Nice-to-have: - Strong copywriting skills. SEO people who also write well are rare and valuable. - Hands-on experience with website tools like Webflow or similar. ## What We Offer - Competitive salary: €65,000–85,000 - Equity: if you help build fonio, you should own a piece of it. - Food & drinks: lunch and dinner at our office are on us, plus any drinks you want (and yes, we stock protein bars and vitamins too). - Relocation bonus if you need to move - Equipment of your choice, set up however you like Hiring Process - 15-min intro call - Case Study - 20-min Skill-interview - 20-min culture call How we hire? We're AI-native, including in hiring. AI helps us to remain efficient, but people make every decision. fonio is an equal opportunity employer. We hire for talent and ownership, whatever your background is. Need an adjustment in the process? Just tell us. Please send your CV in English. Then knock us off our feet 🚀 ## About fonio ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: fonio is a European AI platform that provides AI phone assistants and omnichannel customer communication solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage) - **Headquarters**: Vienna, Austria - **Founded**: 2024 - **Founders**: Daniel Keinrath (CEO) and Matthias Gruber (CTO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: AI-powered customer communication / Telecommunications - **Target customers**: B2B, primarily small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with high volumes of customer calls - **Mission or purpose statement**: To ensure no lead, customer, or opportunity is missed by providing 24/7 AI-powered communication across phone, WhatsApp, email, and chat. ## Products & Services - **AI Phone Assistant**: An AI agent that handles inbound and outbound calls, capable of scheduling appointments, answering inquiries, processing orders, and transcribing conversations. It features speech recognition for difficult dialects, turn-detection for natural conversation flow, and real-time emotion recognition. It can be set up in under 10 minutes with no coding required. - **Omnichannel Platform**: Expanding beyond voice to include WhatsApp (already live), with email and chatbot support to follow. The platform integrates with CRMs, calendar tools, and databases via native integrations and APIs. - **Proprietary Calendar**: An AI-native calendar tool that is already live as part of the platform. - **Proprietary CRM**: A CRM purpose-built for AI-driven customer interactions, expected to launch by the end of Q3 2026. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: $140 million valuation (as of June 2026, per seed round) - **Key Metric**: Total funding of over $20 million, including a $17 million seed round led by 20VC (June 2026) and a €3 million angel round (December 2025). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: 20VC (lead), with participation from founders and executives of Synthesia, HubSpot, and Revolut. Previous angel investors include early backers of Facebook and Airbnb. - **Growth Signals**: - Over 7,000 customers across nine markets (Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy, Poland, Brazil, UK, USA) - Automates over 2 million calls per month - Growing at roughly 40% month-over-month - Acquired competitor fluently in September 2025 - Added $1 million in ARR in April 2026 alone, targeting a 5x increase by year-end - Opening offices in New York, Munich, Milan, Paris, London, Warsaw, and Barcelona ## Competitive Advantages - **Proprietary European Infrastructure**: Develops its own orchestration layer and models (speech recognition, turn-detection, emotion recognition), ensuring all data remains in the EU on servers in Nuremberg, Germany. This differentiates them from competitors who white-label US services. - **High End-to-End Resolution Rate**: In roughly 90% of cases, the AI agent conducts a fully human-like conversation and resolves the inquiry without needing to route it to a human. - **Builder-Heavy Team**: Over half the team are former founders, operations leaders, or people who have scaled products at companies like Canva. ## Strategic Focus - **Omnichannel Expansion**: Moving beyond voice to become a full omnichannel platform (WhatsApp, email, chat). - **International Expansion**: Establishing physical offices in key markets (New York, Munich, Milan, Paris, London, Warsaw, Barcelona) after recent launches in the UK and US. - **Building an AI-Native Tool Ecosystem**: Developing a proprietary calendar and CRM to create a complete, integrated platform for customer communication. ## Why Work Here - **Rapid Growth & Impact**: The company is in a phase of hypergrowth (40% MoM), and employees are "still early enough that your work will genuinely shape the culture, the product, and the company." [fonio.ai/en/careers](https://www.fonio.ai/en/careers) - **Culture**: Described as fast, committed, and in-office by default. The team emphasizes moving fast and having fun. Most roles are Vienna-based, with the expectation of being in the office most days. - **Remote Options**: Engineering roles are fully remote (within ±3 hours of CET). For other roles, there is a temporary relocation to Vienna for onboarding (1-3 months), followed by relocation to the target market. - **Relocation Support**: The company sponsors travel and accommodation in Vienna for the onboarding period and offers full relocation support for moving to target markets. - **Team Size**: Around 40-50 people, with plans to double by the end of the year. - **Hiring Process**: A 3-4 step process: 15-minute intro call, 30-45 minute skills interview (sometimes with a case study), potentially a deeper skills or leadership interview, and a final 20-minute culture call with both founders. [fonio.ai/en/careers](https://www.fonio.ai/en/careers) ## Sources 1. [fonio.ai - Product Page](https://www.fonio.ai/en) 2. [fonio.ai - Careers Page](https://www.fonio.ai/en/careers) 3. [fonio.ai - Press Section](https://www.fonio.ai/en/press) 4. [fonio.ai - Seed Funding Press Release](https://www.fonio.ai/en/news-cool-stuff/pr-14mio-seed-funding-20vc) 5. 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