Head of SEO

**About the company:** Metanomaly Tokyo Metanomaly is behind PixAI, a character generation engine that enables users to generate virtual characters and avatars using generative AI. Read more **Responsibilities:** Own non-brand organic acquisition across EN/JA/KO/ZH as a number, and decide which page types and which markets get the investment Set the index policy for auto-generated pages: what gets indexed, and where we stop spending crawl budget Fix technical SEO with engineering, with SSR as the foundation Own visibility in AI search (AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity) as a measured channel Make the calls on team, tooling and outside partners, and build the team Requirements 6+ years in SEO, most of it technical, including a site of 100k+ URLs Experience with UGC, marketplace or database-driven sites, where pages are generated rather than written You can read and debug HTML, JSON-LD, HTTP status codes, canonical and hreflang yourself, and trace the gap between what a JavaScript framework renders and what Google actually sees You’ve analyzed server logs and changed a decision you had already made because of what they showed Track record of getting template or site architecture changes implemented through an engineering team. Migrations or large restructures welcome Basic SQL Able to define underspecified work yourself instead of waiting for direction Honest estimation, and early flagging when something is blocked or bigger than it looked English at native or fluent level Able to discuss the relationship between generative AI and creator communities calmly Nice to haves While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following. Experience running SEO experiments with the success threshold set in advance Experience running SEO across multiple languages, including non-Latin scripts Experience with programmatic page generation at the tens-of-thousands scale Japanese or Chinese language ability, or consumer product experience in the Japanese market Experience measuring or improving visibility in LLM-based search Interest in anime, otaku culture and creator communities. Interest in AI generation If you’ve read this, please tell us your top 3 favorite anime at the end of your message. **Requirements:** 6+ years in SEO, most of it technical, including a site of 100k+ URLs Experience with UGC, marketplace or database-driven sites, where pages are generated rather than written You can read and debug HTML, JSON-LD, HTTP status codes, canonical and hreflang yourself, and trace the gap between what a JavaScript framework renders and what Google actually sees You’ve analyzed server logs and changed a decision you had already made because of what they showed Track record of getting template or site architecture changes implemented through an engineering team. Migrations or large restructures welcome Basic SQL Able to define underspecified work yourself instead of waiting for direction Honest estimation, and early flagging when something is blocked or bigger than it looked English at native or fluent level Able to discuss the relationship between generative AI and creator communities calmly **Nice to have:** While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following. Experience running SEO experiments with the success threshold set in advance Experience running SEO across multiple languages, including non-Latin scripts Experience with programmatic page generation at the tens-of-thousands scale Japanese or Chinese language ability, or consumer product experience in the Japanese market Experience measuring or improving visibility in LLM-based search Interest in anime, otaku culture and creator communities. Interest in AI generation If you’ve read this, please tell us your top 3 favorite anime at the end of your message.