Takeshi Young

Growth Marketing Manager

Growth Product Manager

Content Marketing Manager

San Jose, CA, US

SEO

Technical SEO

ASO

Growth Marketing

Google Analytics

A/B Testing

Content Strategy

Experimentation

Analytics

Growth Hacking

HTML

Available for hire fromNegotiable

SEO & Growth Leader | Technical SEO, ASO, Experimentation (17+ Years)

SEO and growth leader with 17+ years of experience building organic acquisition programs for global consumer and B2B brands. Expertise spans technical SEO at billion-page scale, international SEO, ASO/GEO/AEO, AI search, experimentation, and cross-functional execution—plus team building and launching new acquisition channels to drive measurable traffic and user growth.

Projects

Optimizer's Glossary

Built an SEO-optimized glossary for the marketing niche, generating 100k+ visitor's a month via SEO. Continues to rank at the top of Google for terms such as "search engine marketing" more than 7+ years after creation.See More

DiDi Food Web Launch

Spearheaded the launch of the web experience for DiDi Food, helping to bring the app experience to the web in an SEO-friendly way, and driving over 100k/mo organic web visitors within the first month of launch.See More

Salsa Vida

Salsa dancing content and directory site, built on WordPress. Grew from zero to over 160k visitors/mo primarily from SEO.

Work History

SEO Manager

QuizletJul 2023 - Jun 2026 • 3 yrs● Owned global SEO strategy for a channel generating 800M+ annual organic visits ● Led technical SEO across 1B+ web pages, improving crawl efficiency, content discovery, internal linking, and indexation quality ● Expanded organic growth beyond search, pioneering ASO, GEO/AEO, Pinterest, YouTube and other search-adjacent channels ● Drove ASO strategy across iOS and Google Play, improving conversion rate and generating 100K+ incremental annual downloads ● Built Codex-powered SEO workflows connected to GA, BigQuery, and GitHub, automating audits/reporting and shipping multiple production PRs without dedicated engineering support

Global SEO & ASO Lead

DiDiFeb 2021 - Mar 2023 • 2 yrs 2 mos● Managed a portfolio of 20+ company websites across 15 countries and built a comprehensive SEO strategy covering technical SEO, content strategy & analytics ● Built a global SEO team from the ground up, providing mentoring, guidance and a unified SEO strategy across markets ● Worked closely with the product and engineering teams to bring the DiDi Food app to the web, growing the site from 0 to 100k SEO visitors/mo ● Managed ASO for our portfolio of apps across 15 countries and increased web-driven app downloads by 100% through A/B testing and website optimization

Growth Marketing Manager

OptimizelyMar 2015 - Feb 2021 • 6 yrs● Developed global SEO strategy and grew organic search traffic to 1M+ annual organic visits, growing SEO to be the largest source of organic marketing qualified leads ● Managed the global marketing website and worked cross-functionally with the marketing and product teams to manage web content while maintaining SEO performance ● Managed a $3M/year ad budget and executed ad campaigns across Google, LinkedIn and Meta properties to drive cost-effective and targeted lead generation ● Conducted website A/B testing to increase conversion rates on key landing pages, and grew adoption for Optimizely Rollouts from 0 to 20,000 active users

SEO Team Lead

EntirelyPets.comMay 2013 - Mar 2015 • 1 yr 11 mos● Built and managed an SEO team to scale SEO traffic to website by 400% ● Worked closely with the product team to implement technical SEO best practices across our e-commerce site ● Developed content marketing strategy and managed company blog & content production, and partnered closely with the marketing team on content promotion

Technical SEO Project Lead

Become.comMay 2009 - May 2013 • 4 yrs 1 mo● Worked with product team to improve technical SEO across 20 million+ pages ● Helped manage a team of several dozen interns and contractors to produce SEO content a scale link building

Education

San Jose State University

Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy (Minor: Computer Science)2007

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