Principal Growth Manager - SEO/AEO

Tempe, AZ (Hybrid)

$140K/yr – $200K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the organic growth engine across SEO and AEO with cross-functional impact on content, site structure, and platforms to beat competitors in discovery.

  • Lead SEO/AEO Strategy and Growth by shaping the plan that drives brand and category visibility across SERPs and LLMs.
  • Drive Execution and Cross-Functional Impact by turning strategy into plans and coordinating engineering and content teams for rapid delivery.
  • Social Platform Strategy and Growth by crafting platform-specific playbooks for high-intent channels and dominating emerging search paths.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead SEO/AEO Strategy and Growth: Own the overarching organic discovery strategy to ensure our domains rank for brand, category, and competitor keywords across traditional SERPs and large language model platforms.
  • Authority and Relevance: Develop actionable plans that continually ramps our brand/domain authority and relevance to ensure high organic visibility and growth rate relative to competition.
  • Competitive Rank Analysis: Conduct ongoing analysis of top-ranking content and LLM-generated citations in our category and across algorithms to identify trends, white space, and sentiment
  • Data & Discovery Architecture: Stay ahead of how search engines and AI models find information. Optimize site structures, schema, and API feeds to ensure maximum legibility for search and LLM web-crawlers.
  • Optimization opportunities. Use this analysis to set direction and targets for high performance.
  • Technical performance. Effectively partner our technical team to ensure consistently high user experience as measured by Core Web Vitals, EEAT, …
  • Drive Execution and Cross-Functional Impact: Turn strategic ideas into written, actionable plans and effectively partner in-house teams to deliver with quality on a high cadence.
  • Communication Skills: Ability to structure, create, and deliver a compelling, actionable plan to executive level audiences in addition to peers.
  • Social Platform Strategy and Growth: Analyze winning formulas per platform and contribute strategies to win top placements on high-intent social platforms (YouTube, TikTok, Reddit). Ensure our brand dominates where the next generation of consumers go to search.
  • Test & Optimize: Develop and run robust experiments to test optimization strategies (e.g., content formatting, entity relationship linking, structured data) and rapidly adapt based on performance.
  • Measure & Reporting: Define success benchmarks and progressive milestones to get there. Partner Business Intelligence teams in defining tools, reporting progress, diagnosing challenges, and identifying opportunities via funnel data.
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Achieve

Achieve is the leader in digital personal finance, built to help everyday people thrive. Achieve offers innovative digital financial solutions including home equity loans, personal loans and debt relief, as well as financial education.From the single parent trying to catch up on bills to the entrepreneur trying to make their dreams a reality, we provide innovative, personalized financial solutions to move them towards a better financial future. By focusing on each individual to understand what’s working for them and what’s not, we tailor an approach to meet their specific needs and goals. Then we add in our data and intelligence, innovative technology, unique solutions, and an empathetic human touch to help our members move their finances forward. We put our members first and treat them like humans, not account numbers.Our people make the biggest difference. With more than 2,300 teammates across the country with hubs in California, Arizona, and Texas, everyone collaborates to make an impact on our mission; to empower everyday people to move forward on the path to a better financial future.Since our founding in 2002, we’ve been committed to fostering an environment where everyone can belong while giving their true authentic selves a place to shine. Whether you’re in sales, member support, engineering, product design, IT, or any of our other exciting roles, you’ll join a team passionate about serving our members and embracing our core values every day:Care (For Everyone)Get Better (Every Day)Act With Integrity (Every Time)Collaborate (With Everybody)Achieve is a family of companies, including including Bills.com, LLC d/b/a Achieve.com (NMLS ID #138464); Freedom Financial Asset Management, LLC (NMLS ID #227977); Freedom Resolution (NMLS ID 1248929); and Achieve Loans (NMLS ID #1810501).

Founded in 2002
Tempe, Arizona, USA
1.9K employees (90 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
330.7K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$483.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
21.3%
Direct
63.2%
Referral
13.3%
Social
1.4%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1.9K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
73 (4% of company)
Median Career Experience
15 years
Median Tenure
4.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$1.8B
Last Raise
$271.2M
Debt Financing, 3 months ago

Funding History

  • Dec 2025
    Debt Financing • $271.2M
  • Aug 2025
    Debt Financing • $226M
  • Nov 2024
    Debt Financing • $186.4M

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