# SEO Content Specialist (Remote) | South Africa

> HireHawk · Johannesburg, South Africa (Remote) · Full-time · Posted 2026-05-26

**Workplace:** remote

**Department:** Recruitment Ops

## Description

HireHawk helps companies build high-performing global teams through offshore staffing and AI-powered recruiting workflows. We work with fast-growing businesses to help them hire top international talent faster and more cost-effectively across roles in operations, marketing, finance, legal, customer support, and technology.

We are building a scalable organic growth engine focused on programmatic SEO, high-intent landing pages, and AI-assisted content operations and we’re looking for an SEO Content Specialist to help lead execution.

HireHawk helps companies build high-performing global teams through offshore staffing and AI-powered recruiting workflows. We work with fast-growing businesses to help them hire top international talent faster and more cost-effectively across roles in operations, marketing, finance, legal, customer support, and technology.

We are building a scalable organic growth engine focused on programmatic SEO, high-intent landing pages, and AI-assisted content operations and we’re looking for an SEO Content Specialist to help lead execution.

**Responsibilities:**

**1\. SEO Content Production & Publishing**

-   Create SEO briefs for:

-   Industry pages
-   Role pages
-   Location pages
-   Service pages
-   Long-form blog content

-   Optimize pages for search intent, conversions, and topical authority
-   Review and refine AI-generated content to align with brand voice and quality standards
-   Publish and QA content in the CMS
-   Optimize:

-   Titles
-   Meta descriptions
-   Headers
-   Internal linking
-   Page structure

-   Maintain content consistency across templates and landing pages

**2\. AI-Assisted Content Operations**

-   Build and maintain AI prompt workflows for different page types
-   Run multi-step content generation workflows:

-   Outline creation
-   Draft generation
-   Editing
-   QA

-   Improve efficiency while maintaining content quality
-   Create SOPs and documentation for content production workflows
-   Identify opportunities to scale content operations using AI

**3\. Programmatic SEO & Landing Page Scaling**

-   Support the creation and scaling of:

-   Industry pages
-   Role pages
-   Location pages
-   Comparison pages

-   Work closely with brand marketing and design to improve template performance
-   Help structure scalable internal linking systems
-   Ensure content remains unique, useful, and non-duplicative at scale

**4\. Technical SEO QA**

-   Perform SEO QA checks across published pages
-   Monitor:

-   Indexability
-   Canonical tags
-   Redirects
-   Metadata
-   Crawlability
-   Sitemap health

-   Identify and troubleshoot SEO issues proactively
-   Work with engineering or Webflow developers to resolve issues

**5\. Reporting & Growth Support**

-   Monitor performance in:

-   Google Search Console
-   GA4
-   Ahrefs/Semrush

-   Track content performance and keyword growth
-   Support ongoing SEO experiments and growth initiatives
-   Maintain weekly reporting on shipped work and performance impact

**What Success Looks Like**

-   Consistent publishing velocity across SEO landing pages and blogs
-   Growth in organic traffic, impressions, and conversions
-   Faster scaling of SEO content using AI-assisted workflows
-   Strong content quality with minimal post-publish revisions
-   Improved internal linking and topical authority
-   Clean technical SEO hygiene across the site
-   Well-documented and repeatable workflows

**You’ll Thrive In This Role If You…**

**Enjoy:**

-   Shipping work consistently
-   Building scalable systems and workflows
-   Combining SEO + AI + operations
-   Working in fast-moving startup environments
-   Turning messy processes into organized pipelines

**Are Comfortable With:**

-   High-volume execution work
-   Managing multiple content workflows simultaneously
-   Ambiguity and evolving priorities
-   Repetitive QA work while maintaining quality standards

**May Struggle If You Prefer:**

-   Slow-moving environments
-   Highly rigid processes
-   Minimal accountability
-   Limited ownership

## Requirements

**Must-Haves**

-   4+ years of SEO content or SEO operations experience
-   Strong understanding of on-page SEO best practices
-   Experience working with AI-assisted content workflows
-   Experience creating SEO briefs and content outlines
-   Hands-on large scale CMS publishing experience, particularly with WordPress
-   Familiarity with:

-   Google Search Console
-   GA4
-   Ahrefs / Semrush

-   Strong attention to detail and QA skills
-   Excellent written communication skills
-   Ability to manage deadlines and content pipelines independently

**Nice-to-Haves**

-   Experience with programmatic SEO
-   Experience scaling location or role-based SEO pages
-   Technical SEO knowledge
-   Familiarity with internal linking strategies
-   Basic automation or scripting knowledge
-   Startup or agency experience
-   Experience in staffing, recruiting, HR tech, or B2B SaaS

## Benefits

-   Access to a $200k+ perk marketplace with instant discounts on 150+ services
-   Access up to 50% of approved earnings before payday (no credit checks or fees)

## Apply

[Apply at HireHawk](https://apply.workable.com/hirehawk/j/3054C045DA/apply)

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