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title: 'SEO Strategist/Growth SEO Lead at Retell AI'
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# SEO Strategist/Growth SEO Lead at Retell AI

- **Company:** Retell AI
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $170k–$230k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/retell-ai/184a619b-fa33-45f5-9fbf-d3e6dfb5121e/application

**Skills:** SEO, Technical SEO, On-page Optimization, AI Tools, Content Strategy, Data Analysis, Programmatic SEO, AI-native Search Optimization, ChatGPT Optimization, SaaS Optimization, Developer Tools Optimization

> The SEO Strategist owns organic growth end-to-end, building compounding growth engines across Google search, AI-native surfaces, and programmatic SEO. This high-ownership role involves designing scalable content systems, leveraging AI tools for content scaling, and optimizing technical SEO to drive significant growth.

## Job description

## ABOUT RETELL AI

Retell AI is using first-principles thinking to reimagine the call center with cutting-edge voice AI. Thousands of companies now use Retell's AI voice agents to handle sales, support, and logistics calls that once required large teams of human agents. Backed by Y Combinator, Alt Capital, and other leading investors, we've scaled to $80M in ARR with a team of 50, up from $5M at the start of 2025, and are now valued at over $1.5B. Our vision for 2026 is to build a modern CX platform where entire contact centers are powered by AI. Instead of basic automation that needs constant human tuning, we're creating intelligent AI “workers” that act as frontline agents, QA analysts, and managers, continuously executing, monitoring, and improving every customer interaction. We're growing fast and looking for ambitious builders who want to tackle hard technical problems, move quickly, and have a real impact on one of the fastest-growing voice AI companies in the world. Let's build the future together. Recent recognition:

- [No. 1 Best Places to Work in the Bay Area, San Francisco Business Times 2026](https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/voice-ai-startup-retell-ai-145200025.html)
- https://a16z.com/the-ai-application-spending-report-where-startup-dollars-really-go/
- [#3 Fastest-Growing Software Company, G2 Best Software Awards 2026](https://company.g2.com/news/g2s-2026-best-software-awards)
- [Best Agentic AI Software, G2 Best Software Awards 2026](https://www.retellai.com/blog/retell-ai-recognized-as-the-best-agentic-ai-software-by-g2)
- [#4 Fastest-Growing Software Vendor, Brex Benchmark 2025](https://www.brex.com/journal/brex-benchmark-december-2025)
- [Enterprise Tech 30 Class of 2026, Nasdaq & Wing VC](https://www.nasdaq.com/videos/retell-ai)
- [Top-Ranked Startup, Lean AI Leaderboard](https://leanaileaderboard.com/)
- [Backed by Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/retell-ai)

## ABOUT THE ROLE

Retell AI transforms customer experience with voice AI for enterprises, including customers like CVS/Aetna, American Airlines, Lenovo, and Grab. We have more customer stories than we can tell! We’re hiring an SEO Strategist to own organic growth end-to-end, from strategy to execution. You will be responsible for building a compounding growth engine across:

- Google search
- AI-native surfaces (ChatGPT, Perplexity, etc.)
- Programmatic and product-driven SEO

This is a high-ownership role. You won’t just optimize pages, you’ll design systems, build content moats, and create leverage.

## KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Own SEO strategy end-to-end

- Define how Retell wins across search and AI discovery channels

Build content as “source of truth”

- Create and maintain core content pillars that dominate key topics
- Ensure consistency across docs, blog, landing pages, and product

Design scalable growth systems

- Build programmatic SEO and repeatable content loops
- Turn one idea into hundreds or thousands of high-quality pages

Leverage AI deeply

- Use AI to generate, maintain, and evolve content
- Build workflows that keep content fresh and accurate over time

Own technical SEO and on-page optimization

- Improve site architecture, indexing, crawlability, and performance
- Continuously optimize pages for both ranking and conversion

Partner with product and engineering

- Embed SEO into product surfaces and user workflows
- Influence how the product itself generates organic growth

Experiment aggressively

- Test unconventional ideas
- Move fast, learn fast, and double down on what works

## YOU MIGHT THRIVE IF

Must have

- 5+ years of experience in SEO or growth roles
- Proven track record of driving 10x+ growth through SEO
- Strong experience with technical SEO and on-page optimization
- Hands-on execution, you don’t just plan, you ship
- Experience using AI tools to scale content and workflows

## Nice to have

- Experience with programmatic SEO
- Experience optimizing for AI-native search (ChatGPT, Perplexity, etc.)
- Background in SaaS, developer tools, or technical products
- Startup experience or working in fast-moving environments

## JOB DETAILS

- Cash: 170k-230k per year
- Equity: Equity Provided
- Location: Redwood City, CA, US
- US Visas: Retell AI is open to sponsoring work authorization for qualified candidates, including H1B/H-1B, TN, L-1, E-3, F-1 (OPT/CPT), and O-1 visas.

## OTHER BENEFITS

- 100% coverage for medical, dental, and vision insurance
- $70/day DoorDash credit for unlimited breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks
- $200/month wellness reimbursement (gym, fitness classes, etc.)
- $300/month commuter reimbursement (gas, Caltrain, etc.)
- $75/month phone bill reimbursement
- $50/month internet reimbursement

## COMPENSATION PHILOSOPHY

- Best Offer Upfront: Choose from three cash-equity balance options; no negotiation needed.
- Top 1% Talent: Above-market pay (top 5 percentile) to attract exceptional builders.
- High Ownership: Small teams, >$1M revenue/employee, and significant equity.
- Performance-Based: Offers tied to interview performance, not experience or past salaries.

## INTERVIEW PROCESS

- Resume Screening (15 min)
- Hiring Manager Experience Screening (30min)
- SEO Deep Dive (30 min)
- Walk through past projects
- What worked, what didn’t, why
- Identify true ownership vs surface-level involvement
- Onsite (2–3 hours)
- Live Strategy Exercise
- “How would you grow Retell from X → Y using SEO?”
- Evaluate thinking in systems, prioritization, creativity

## About Retell AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Retell AI is a real-time conversational AI platform that builds human-like, low-latency voice agents to automate phone calls for businesses.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage, Y Combinator-backed)
- **Headquarters**: San Carlos, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Bing Wu (CEO), Todd Li (COO), Evie Wang (CTO), Weijia Yu (President), Zexia Zhang (CMO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Contact Center Automation, AI Voice Agents, Conversational AI, Enterprise Communication Software
- **Target customers**: B2B (enterprise, healthcare, insurance, automotive, SMBs)
- **Mission**: "A world where every business call is handled by AI that actually gets it right."

## Products & Services
- **AI Voice Agent Platform (SaaS)**: Drag-and-drop agentic framework to build, deploy, and manage AI voice agents for inbound (support, routing, appointment booking) and outbound (reminders, lead qualification, surveys) calls. Includes:
  - Real-time function calling (book, pay, update records, transfer)
  - Proprietary turn-taking model and ultra-realistic voices
  - Streaming RAG with auto-sync knowledge base
  - Performance analytics dashboard
  - Batch calling with conversion tracking
  - SIP trunking (connect to any telephony)
  - Enterprise on-prem deployment option
  - Compliance: HIPAA, SOC 2 Type II, GDPR; SSO; PII redaction; role-based access

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: $40M annualized revenue (fully profitable as of 2025)
- **Total Funding**: $9.4M (including $4.6M seed round led by Alt Capital, backed by Y Combinator and angel investors)
- **Headcount**: ~69 employees (175% YoY growth)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Alt Capital (lead seed), Y Combinator

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary Voice AI Orchestration**: Built from the ground up for sub-second latency (~600ms) and natural turn-taking, not stitched-off APIs.
- **Scalability**: Battle-tested infrastructure handling millions of calls reliably.
- **Enterprise Security**: HIPAA/SOC2/GDPR certified, on-prem deployment, SSO, redaction.
- **High Capital Efficiency**: $40M ARR with only 25 employees at time of reaching that milestone.

## Strategic Focus
- Replace traditional call centers by shifting from human-staffed support to AI-handled routine calls, with human escalation for complex cases.
- Continue improving low-latency, agentic voice models and expanding enterprise feature set (batch calling, analytics, compliance).
- Scale customer base across healthcare, insurance, and other regulated verticals.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Small, high-ownership teams; >$1M revenue per employee; "ship fast" — no committees, ship this week if you can make the case.
- **Work Environment**: In-office in San Carlos (on purpose — speed and collaboration on hard problems).
- **Benefits**: Competitive equity packages, health/dental/vision insurance, meal stipends, relocation support, visa sponsorship (H-1B and other work visas).
- **Tech Stack**: Backend in TypeScript and Python, ML in Python, Frontend in React.
- **Interview Process**: Conversations with co-founders, deep on product thinking and technical ability, transparent and fast.

## Sources
1. [retellai.com](https://www.retellai.com/)
2. [retellai.com/about-us](https://www.retellai.com/about-us)
3. [retellai.com/careers](https://www.retellai.com/careers)
4. [linkedin.com/company/retellai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/retellai)
5. [cbinsights.com/company/retell-ai](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/retell-ai)

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