My buddy Rich is looking for a person to head this group over at Amazon.  If you're interested, let me know.

LinkedIn Rich Williams has sent you a message. Date: 3/02/2010 Subject: I'm Hiring: Head of WW SEO/Free Search at Amazon If you know of any great candidates, please send them my way. For a little color on the job, the position manages the end-to-end delivery of technology solutions (and of course business results) for search engine optimization and free search traffic for Amazon's WW retail sites (and more). The role has a global, large scale revenue footprint and leads a fully integrated team--from channel and program management to software development and QA. The job description is posted below. Thanks in advance for your help! Cheers, RW ----------------------------------------------- WW Free Search Traffic Leader Amazon.com is seeking an innovative business and technology leader for the Free Search team within its Global Marketing Organization (also referred to as “Traffic”). The Global Marketing or Traffic Teams at Amazon are responsible for all external communication with retail customers, wherever those customers are, except for on Amazon.com. Communication channels the teams oversee include Paid and Free Search, Display Advertising, Email, Mass Advertising, Amazon’s Associates (Affiliate) program, Social Network Marketing and more. The Free Search traffic team at Amazon.com is responsible for driving traffic and revenue from natural results on search engines. The team is responsible for Search Engine Optimization of Amazon retail websites Worldwide and manages the landing page experience from search engines for our Customers. This team builds and manages the core/scalable Engineering activities and systems to drive incremental traffic from search engines and works with other technical/business teams to prioritize the work required to drive incremental traffic. The leader of the team will be responsible for driving the product strategy and vision for Free Search and delivering scalable technology solutions to make the product vision a reality. The role is global in nature and is highly visible within the organization. The ideal candidate would have a mix of both business and technology skills and is expected to manage an engineering team and present business metrics and roadmap/strategy to senior management across the company. The broad scope of this role includes: * Owning Amazon’s Search Engine Optimization program and the revenue goals of the channel * Delivery of high quality and scalable technology solutions for driving incremental traffic and sales from search engines * Analysis and presentation of weekly input and output metrics to senior management within the company * Mentoring and growing Program Managers, Software Dev Managers and SDE’s within the company * Evangelizing SEO concepts and best practices within the company * Driving/influencing other technical/business teams to prioritize the work for driving incremental traffic from search engines The successful applicant will be a clear, strategic thinker with a strong technical background in delivering scalable technology solutions. The applicant must have a track record of solving hard problems and delivering business results in an aggressive, results-focused environment. Deep SEO knowledge and experience is obviously a huge plus. Communication skills and a passion for metrics and quantitative analysis are critical. Strong analytical, product and project management skills are required. BA/BS and 7+ years of relevant work experience required; MBA and Engineering/CS experience preferred.