[Hiring] YouTube SEO Researcher @Smart Content

Role Description

We’re looking for a YouTube Keyword & Title Researcher to power the packaging of several YouTube channels focused on technology, AI, SaaS, Tutorials, and Educational Content. You’ll feed our content pipeline with:

• Keyword and topic research
• Competitor analysis
• Title options that slot straight into our existing title framework

Your job is to make our packaging decisions fast, well-sourced, and data-informed, so every video goes into production with the right angle and the right title logic behind it. This is an execution-focused role where we provide the frameworks; you work within them, suggest improvements, and help scale them effectively.

Responsibilities

• Run keyword and topic research for upcoming YouTube videos, covering both evergreen search intent and timely/trending angles.
• Break down competitors: identify what’s working in comparable channels and translate it into concrete keyword and title direction.
• Propose title options per video within our title framework, each with a short, clear rationale for why it earns the click.
• Flag search vs. browse/suggested logic per video so each one is positioned correctly.
• Must have experience using Ahrefs; experience with Semrush will be a plus.
• Use AI tools in the research workflow — keyword clustering, title variants, competitor-gap analysis — with editorial judgment over raw output.
• Document every recommendation with its sources and reasoning, so decisions are checkable at a glance.
• Maintain steady throughput and hit deadlines across multiple channels.
• Keep a lightweight knowledge base of what’s working per channel, so the process compounds instead of restarting each time.

Requirements

• Experience with related SEO experience - minimum 1 year.
• High level of English proficiency; strong English intuition for titles — a native-level feel for what makes an English-speaking tech audience click.
• Genuine YouTube-native SEO understanding — you think in CTR (title), retention, search intent, and browse/suggested traffic.
• The ability to articulate why a title works — you can break it into principles, not “I like this one.”
• Hands-on experience with Ahrefs is required; Semrush experience is a strong plus.
• Solid research fundamentals: YouTube autocomplete, competitor title/tag mining, and Google Trends for timing.
• A data-over-ego mindset — when the data contradicts your taste, you follow it and figure out why.
• Reliable, proactive, and able to manage consistent volume across multiple channels without hand-holding.
• Clean documentation habit — sources and a one-line “why” with every recommendation.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with the tech / AI / SaaS / educational / Gadgets niches.
• AI SEO / GEO experience — understanding how content gets surfaced and cited in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and Gemini.
• Experience building or improving an AI-assisted research workflow.

Benefits

• Consistent, long-term work.
• A clear framework and structured briefs already in place — you research within a system, not from a blank page.
• Fast feedback and a professional, collaborative remote team.
• Access to current AI research and SEO tools and workflows.
• Room to grow with a fast-scaling media company.

Hiring Process

If this sounds like how you already think about titles: clicks first, reasoning over taste, and a real system to work inside — we’d love to see what you can do.