Software Engineering Manager, SEO & Content

Role Overview

The Manager of the SEO & Content Engineering team at CarGurus leads an engineering team responsible for one of our most important growth channels: organic discovery. The team partners closely with Marketing, Product, and Engineering leaders to shape the technical strategy behind how millions of shoppers discover CarGurus through search. They evolve the site architecture and content platforms, build new experiences that answer shoppers' questions, and directly influence traffic growth, shopper engagement, and business outcomes.

What You'll Do

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers through coaching, technical direction, and professional development.
• Build and evolve systems and experiences used by millions of shoppers throughout their car buying journey.
• Partner with Product and Marketing stakeholders to establish priorities and align SEO strategies with broader business goals.
• Drive execution against the team's roadmap, balancing short term impact with long term investments in platform capabilities and technical foundations.
• Use data and experimentation to validate hypotheses, measure impact, and continuously improve organic traffic quality and shopper engagement.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with marketing, design, analytics, engineering, and content teams to implement features to enhance search engine visibility and user experience.
• Own SEO problems end-to-end, managing diverse systems and technologies to optimize efficiency and user experience.
• Help shape CarGurus' strategy for the future of search, ensuring our content and experiences remain discoverable across both traditional search engines and emerging AI powered experiences.

Who You Are

• 6+ years of hands-on software design and development experience
• 2+ years of experience managing software development teams
• You have experience leading engineering teams and creating environments where people can do their best work.
• You are comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast moving environments and making thoughtful tradeoffs.
• You have a strong technical foundation and can effectively partner with engineers on architecture, design, and delivery decisions.
• You bring an analytical mindset and can translate data and insights into clear priorities and action.
• You excel at building relationships and influencing across functions and organizational boundaries.
• You have experience delivering customer facing web experiences at scale.
• You understand the fundamentals of SEO and are excited to learn how search and AI driven discovery are evolving.
• You have JavaScript and React experience.
• Experience with Remix is a strong plus.
• Experience with Java based services is a strong plus.