BetterHelp is hiring an International SEO/AEO Manager for its Spanish, French, Dutch and German markets, with hreflang named in the brief. Today the sitemaps tag the localized pages for one country each: es-ES, fr-FR, de-DE, nl-NL. Spanish speakers outside Spain, French speakers in Canada, Belgium or Switzerland, German speakers in Austria or Switzerland and Dutch speakers in Belgium are not told those pages are for them. Behind the tags, the libraries are thin: 174 Spanish, 206 German, 213 Dutch and 353 French articles against 4,259 in English, and none of the localized articles is linked to its English counterpart.
First action
List which countries each localized site is meant to serve, and add the language-level tags to the main sitemap.
How to measure it
Organic sign-ups from the four languages
- Now
- –
- Target
- +40%
- By
- 2 quarters
Steps
Confirm markets
Which countries each language site serves.
International SEO/AEO Manager 2 days
Fix the tags
Language-level alternates plus country codes; link articles to English versions.
International SEO/AEO Manager 1 week
Rank the gap
Top 200 English articles per language by search demand.
International SEO/AEO Manager 1 week
Set the workflow
AI-assisted drafts, native editors, clinical review.
International SEO/AEO Manager 2 weeks
Publish in waves
50 articles per language per month.
International SEO/AEO Manager 1 quarter
Measure
Indexing, rankings and sign-ups per language.
Manager, Business Analytics & Insights monthly
Why it works
Add language-level alternates (es, fr, de, nl) next to the country codes for every market BetterHelp serves, and link each localized article to its English version where one exists. Then pick the 200 English articles with the most search demand in each language, and produce them through the AI-assisted, human-reviewed workflow the role describes, reviewed by licensed clinicians who work in that language. Track indexing and organic sign-ups per language.
Search engines and AI assistants can then send each speaker to the right page, and every translated article starts from a page that already proved demand in English. It grows the markets the new hire owns without new ad spend.
Ready to use
ChecklistInternational launch checklist
[ ] es, fr, de, nl alternates added beside es-ES, fr-FR, de-DE, nl-NL [ ] x-default kept on the English pages [ ] Localized articles linked to their English versions [ ] Top 200 articles per language ranked by demand [ ] Native editor and clinical reviewer named per language [ ] Local helplines and prices checked per country [ ] Search Console property per language folder
Risks and how to handle them
Translations read as machine text
Native editors and clinicians review every article before it goes live.
Advice differs by country
Adapt helplines, laws and pricing per country, not only the language.
Evidence
- Your websiteSitemaps (checked October 23, 2026): main pages carry hreflang alternates for en-US, fr-FR, de-DE, nl-NL and es-ES only. Article libraries: 4,259 English advice pages against 353 French, 213 Dutch, 206 German and 174 Spanish; each localized article's hreflang points only to itself. 36,213 therapist directory pages and 3,476 Canadian pages under /ca/, which carry no hreflang.Source
- HiringInternational SEO/AEO Manager (open, San Jose): owns "international organic growth strategy across all priority markets" for "our Spanish, French, Dutch, and German markets", including "hreflang implementation, Core Web Vitals, and structured data", "subdomain vs. subdirectory strategy", a "content refresh program", "AI-assisted, human-reviewed content workflows", and monitoring "how our brand and content appear across AI-powered search surfaces" to improve "visibility and accuracy of representation".Source
- HiringSenior Clinical QA Specialist, AI (posted October 14, 2026): "We're building safe, effective AI tools that support both members and clinicians"; the role develops "clinical standards, evaluation rubrics and review processes" and "escalation pathways". Every post describes BetterHelp as "the world's largest online therapy service" with "over 30,000 licensed therapists", founded in 2013.Source