Search Engine Optimization Manager
Mid-Senior levelBachelor's DegreeMarketingInformation Technology and ServicesCommercial
About the role
About Mahally
Mahally is Saudi Arabia's home for local commerce. We bring thousands of Saudi stores - across beauty, fashion, home, food, gifting, electronics, and more - into one marketplace and one app, making it easier for customers to discover and buy from local brands.
We're more than a catalogue. Mahally is a demand engine for Saudi merchants - helping great products get discovered and connecting shoppers with local businesses they may not have found otherwise.
About the Role
We're looking for anSEO Managerto own Mahally's organic search strategy end-to-end, coveringtechnical SEO, content and organic growth, and AI-driven discovery (GEO/AEO).
This is not a keyword-reporting role.
Mahally is a large, dynamic marketplace with millions of URLs, constantly changing stores and products, and significant opportunities to improve how search engines crawl, index, understand, and rank our content.
You'll lead the work to strengthen our technical SEO foundation, improve indexation and discoverability, build scalable organic landing-page strategies, and create sustainable organic growth that isn't dependent on individual merchants or products.
You'll also help shape how Mahally appears across emerging AI and answer engines, including ChatGPT Search, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google's AI-powered search experiences.
Working closely withEngineering, Product, Content, and Merchant teams, you'll turn SEO opportunities into clear priorities and measurable business impact.
Success will be measured not only by rankings and visibility, but byqualified organic traffic, orders, and GMV.
What You'll Do
1- Fix the technical foundation
- Own technical SEO for a marketplace at scale: crawl budget, indexation, canonicalisation, pagination, faceted navigation, internal linking, sitemaps, Core Web Vitals, and JS rendering.
- Diagnose and resolve index bloat - decide which page types deserve to be indexed at all, and enforce it through robots directives, canonical strategy, and sitemap hygiene.
- Solve for churn:…