Responsibilities

• Own organic end to end across Google and AI assistants: cluster strategy, page production, technical health, links, and the results they deliver in traffic, rankings, and paid subscribers.
• Move our hardest category head terms in AI image and video into the top results, and be honest about which need better content versus authority we don't yet have.
• Own measurement, including connecting SEO performance to revenue by cluster, and make the calls on where to stop investing — including in clusters you originally championed.
• Run the SEO team day to day, set the bar for briefs, templates, and review, and own the output as a whole.
• If pages ship late or quality slips, that's yours before it's anyone else's.
• Coach the team on AEO and on working with AI. Most SEO practitioners have never written for citation or run an AI-assisted pipeline, and both are trainable.
• Ship the hardest clusters yourself, from keyword set to live pages. You set the standard by doing the work, not by describing it in a doc.
• Build the production system that lets a small team publish hundreds of pages a month with AI: prompts, templates, review criteria, and a kill rate you can defend.
• Own how OpenArt shows up in AI assistants and AI Overviews across tracked prompt sets, and define what we count.
• The data is noisy and easy to over-read, so the metric has to be one leadership can actually act on.

Requirements

• 5–10 years of SEO experience , including time owning organic growth for a site at real scale.
• Experience leading people, with clear examples of work that improved because of how you managed the team.
• A genuinely hands-on approach. You still run your own audits, pull your own data, and write your own briefs.
• Experience shipping content with AI at volume, with a clear system for maintaining quality.
• An AI-native workflow: LLMs and agents are part of your daily work, including wiring up tools over MCP to pull your own data.
• Strong technical SEO fundamentals, plus real AEO experience or a serious point of view on how AEO should work.
• Strong data fluency. You're comfortable enough with SQL or a BI tool to answer your own questions, and skeptical enough to notice when a number looks wrong.
• Based in the Bay Area , or willing to relocate.

Preferred

• Consumer or content-heavy platform experience.
• Programmatic page generation at scale.
• Experience managing across time zones.
• Digital PR and link-building experience for high-difficulty head terms.
• International SEO experience.