Head of Content
ZenRows
Hirezar Summary for South African Applicants
This fully remote full time position at ZenRows explicitly welcomes applicants based in South Africa. This role is suited for executive-level professionals. As a remote position, you can work from anywhere in South Africa — whether you're based in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, or a smaller town.
Job Description
Remote | Full-time
Born in the Basque Country and built for the world, Zenrows is one of the fastest-growing data infrastructure startups in Europe. We work 100% remotely and hire the best people regardless of where they are.
Founded in 2021, we started as a scraping API for developers. In 2026, we are evolving into something bigger:the data collection infrastructure layer for the AI era. Thousands of companies across e-commerce, finance, real estate, and AI rely on Zenrows to power their data pipelines. Now, we're building for the next generation of users: workflow builders, AI engineers, and business teams who don't write code but need data to flow reliably through their systems.
We're looking for aHead of Organic Growthto own how Zenrows is discovered, understood, and trusted across LLMs, developer communities, integration ecosystems, and the open web.
The Role
The way developers and technical teams discover tools has fundamentally changed. Google search is no longer the only, or even the primary surface. Developers ask ChatGPT. Business users ask Gemini. AI engineers search Perplexity. Workflows are built inside Clay, n8n, and Make, where discovery happens through directories, templates, and community recommendations.
Your job is to make Zenrows the trusted, cited, recommended answer across all of these surfaces, not just in Google's top 10.
You'll work closely with Product, Sales, and the GTM Engineer to ensure content is a genuine growth engine, not a support function.
What You'll Own
🔍 AEO, GEO & Discoverability Strategy
This is the core of the role.
* Own Zenrows'Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)andGenerative Engine Optimization (GEO)strategy: ensuring we are the cited, recommended answer when developers and AI engineers ask about web scraping, data collection, workflow automation, and data pipelines
* Understand how LLMs (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity) surface and prioritize content, and build a strategy around it
* Develop structured, citation-friendly content formats: comparison pages, definitional guides, integration explainers, and technical FAQs that earn LLM citations
* Own competitive intelligence: track how competitors are being cited, recommended, and positioned in AI search
📊 SEO Strategy & Content Operations
* Own Zenrows'organic search strategy end-to-end: keyword research, topic prioritization, content gap analysis, and competitive benchmarking, with a clear view of where SEO still drives meaningful pipeline and where it doesn't
* Leadcontent operations: manage the editorial calendar, maintain publishing velocity, and ensure quality standards across in-house writers, freelancers, and external agencies
* Manage, and develop a team oftechnical writers and editors, setting clear briefs, review processes, and feedback loops that raise the floor on content quality without creating bottlenecks
* Own the relationship withexternal content agencies: briefing, quality control, performance review, and deciding what stays in-house versus what gets outsourced
* Develop and maintainoff-page SEO strategy: link acquisition, guest publishing, and building the kind of third-party authority signals that reinforce Zenrows' position in both traditional search and LLM training corpora
* Work closely with Engineering ontechnical SEO: site architecture, crawlability, Core Web Vitals, structured data markup, and indexing health, you won't do this alone, but you'll own the roadmap and hold the team accountable
* Maintain acontent performance framework: define and track the metrics that matter (organic traffic, keyword rankings, assisted conversions, LLM citation frequency) and use them to make prioritization decisions, not just report on them
* Continuously audit the existing content library fordecay, cannibalization, and coverage gaps, and make the hard calls about what gets updated, consolidated, or cut
🧑💻 Developer Education & Docs-as-Marketing
* Turn Zenrows' documentation into atop-of-funnel acquisition channel. Think Stripe's docs: content that ranks, educates, and converts, not marketing fluff disguised as technical writing
* Build actionable, developer-focused resources: integration tutorials, use-case walkthroughs, SDK examples, and migration guides
* Create content specifically for theAI/LLM data pipeline audience: tutorials on using Zenrows for RAG pipelines, AI agents, training data collection, MCP server integrations, and agentic workflows
* Collaborate with Engineering and Product to ensure documentation is accurate and genuinely useful
* Partner with DevRel to amplify technical content across developer communities
🔗 Ecosystem & Integration Content
This is new territory for Zenrows, and one of the highest-leverage content surfaces in 2026.
* Build and maintain a library ofintegration content: how Zenrows works inside Clay, n8n, Make, Zapier, LangChain, LlamaIndex, and other workflow and AI platforms
* Create content that earns Zenrows a presence inintegration marketplace
Tips for South African Applicants
Timezone Advantage
South Africa (SAST, UTC+2) overlaps well with European business hours and has a few hours of overlap with US East Coast. Mention your timezone flexibility in your application.
Salary in Context
Even without a listed salary, international remote roles typically pay 2-3x more than equivalent local positions in South Africa due to the exchange rate advantage.
Application Tips
Tailor your CV to international standards — use a clean format, highlight remote work experience, and include your English proficiency. Many SA applicants succeed by emphasising their strong work ethic and cultural adaptability.
Load Shedding Preparedness
If you're applying for a remote role, having a backup power solution (UPS, inverter, or generator) and mobile data as a backup internet connection shows employers you're prepared for South Africa's infrastructure challenges.
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About ZenRows
ZenRows is a company in the Content Creator industry that hires remote workers from South Africa.