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Paris, Île-de-France, France
Hybrid
At Pennylane, SEO and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) are central to making our product easier to discover and understand, while helping us reach new customers.
We are looking for an SEO & AI Content Specialist to work closely with our SEO Manager and the wider Growth team. Your mission will be to produce, improve and scale high-quality content that drives non-branded organic traffic and conversions, while embedding AI thoughtfully into the way we work.
This role is for someone who enjoys writing, structuring, optimising, measuring and iterating. You are curious about the evolution of search and eager to explore how people discover products through search engines and AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Perplexity.
Pennylane is one of France’s leading fintech unicorns, building the financial and accounting operating system for European SMEs and accounting firms.
Founded in 2020, we help business owners make better decisions and enable accountants to focus on advising their clients.
A few figures that illustrate our scale and ambition:
💻 More than 1.3 million SMEs already work with Pennylane.
🤝 More than 7,000 accounting firms use our platform.
👨👩👧👦 More than 1,100 Pennylaners work across the company, representing more than 25 nationalities.
💰 More than €400 million raised since launch.
🌍 A remote-friendly, international culture as we continue to grow across Europe.
You will work closely with our SEO Manager and the wider Growth team and :
Build AI-powered content workflows
Use AI to accelerate research, outlining, first drafts and content optimisation, while maintaining a high editorial standard.
Design repeatable workflows, including briefs, quality checklists, templates and editorial guidelines.
Help scale content production efficiently without compromising relevance, accuracy or clarity.
Produce and optimise high-value SEO content
Write, update and improve SEO content, including articles, pillar pages and landing pages, to generate non-branded organic traffic and conversions.
Turn search intent into clear, useful and well-structured content for Pennylane’s audiences.
Run continuous optimisation initiatives, including content refreshes, consolidation, internal linking and on-page improvements.
Work with stakeholders across Growth to ensure content supports broader acquisition priorities.
Help develop our GEO approach
Build an understanding of the questions and prompts prospects use in AI-powered discovery tools.
Adapt content to help ensure Pennylane is accurately understood and discoverable across emerging AI search journeys.
Test content formats, structures and optimisation approaches that improve visibility in AI-generated answers — without compromising the experience for human readers.
Share learnings and contribute to shaping Pennylane’s evolving SEO and GEO playbook.
Make decisions with data
Monitor and prioritise work based on SEO performance signals, including visibility, rankings, impressions, clicks, CTR, organic traffic and conversions.
Translate data into concrete, actionable recommendations.
Run experiments, measure their impact and iterate quickly and rigorously.
You have initial, meaningful hands-on experience in SEO, ideally with published content you can share.
You are fluent in French, with strong writing and editing skills. You also have professional working proficiency in English.
You enjoy improving content and are motivated by the challenge of turning a good page into a high-performing one.
You take a pragmatic, data-informed approach: you form hypotheses, test them, measure outcomes and improve.
You already use AI tools in your day-to-day workflow and are excited to deepen your practice.
You have a sharp eye for structure, clarity, accuracy and editorial quality.
You are comfortable working in a fast-moving, collaborative environment and know how to focus on the initiatives with the greatest business impact.
🛠️ Tools and environment
You will work with tools such as Meteoria, Profound, Google Search Console, GA4, Semrush, Contentful and Notion.
A role with real room to propose, structure and improve how SEO works at Pennylane.
The opportunity to develop expertise at the intersection of SEO, content, GEO and AI.
A demanding and supportive team that values execution, learning and sound judgement.
A direct and visible impact on organic acquisition and conversion.
A remote-friendly working environment, with access to home-office equipment, coworking options where relevant and regular opportunities to meet teammates in person.
Benefits that support flexibility, wellbeing, connection and growth. These may vary depending on your country, contract type and role.
This role can be based in Paris on a hybrid basis, or remotely from anywhere in France.
All interviews are held remotely:
An initial conversation with Talent Acquisition (30 min).
A conversation with the Hiring Manager (30 min).
A case study and debrief with the Hiring Manager and a team member (1 hour).
A final team-fit conversation with a Marketing Team Lead (30 min).
Pennylane is committed to providing an inclusive and supportive work environment, with equal opportunities for all candidates regardless of social or ethnic background, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability or any other personal characteristic.
We know that some people are less likely to apply when they do not meet every single requirement. If this role sounds exciting and you believe you could make an impact, we would love to hear from you.
Please apply only through Pennylane’s official channels. Our communications are sent from email addresses ending in @pennylane.com or @pennylane-partners.com.
We will never ask you to make a payment or share financial information during the recruitment process.
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Pennylane traite vos données pour gérer votre candidature et évaluer votre adéquation au poste. Si votre candidature n’aboutit pas, vos données peuvent être conservées 2 ans à compter de notre dernier échange ou de la clôture du recrutement afin de constituer & gérer un vivier de candidats. Vous pouvez vous opposer à tout moment et demander la suppression de vos données en écrivant à : dpo@pennylane.com.
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