Search & Discovery Lead (SEO/AEO/GEO)

Auburn Hills, MI (Unknown)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the discovery-driven growth by shaping a scalable SEO/AI-enabled strategy that expands visibility across search, AI answers, and content-powered authority, while building robust technical foundations and cross-functional partnerships.

  • Strategize discovery across search, AI-driven answers, and content to capture broad intent and high-value surfaces.
  • Build and measure a scalable technical foundation, structured data, and KPI-driven discovery programs with cross-functional partners.
  • Embed discovery into product, content, and campaigns to continuously improve visibility, authority, and demand capture.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Defines and leads Whisker’s search and discovery strategy across Google, YouTube, marketplaces, and AI-powered answer engines
  • Evolves SEO into a broader “discovery layer”—ensuring visibility wherever customers search, ask, or explore
  • Identifies and prioritizes high-impact surfaces for both brand and non-brand demand capture
  • Builds and scales organic search as a performance channel with clear contribution to traffic, conversion, and revenue
  • Identifies high-intent opportunities and ensures we win across the full demand spectrum—from problem discovery to product consideration
  • Continuously optimizes for both capture (rank/visibility) and conversion (click ? action)
  • Owns and influences the technical foundation that enables discoverability at scale (site architecture, crawlability, indexation, structured data, performance)
  • Builds systems that ensure resilience and rapid detection of issues across domains
  • Partners with Engineering and Ecom teams to continue to optimize Whisker sites toward search-optimized platforms
  • Defines how content builds authority, relevance, and coverage across key topics and entities
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Whisker

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Whisker is the maker of Litter-Robot, Feeder-Robot, and Litterbox.com. At Whisker, we believe pet parenthood can always get better. As leading innovators in pet tech and refined pet accessories, we work tirelessly to solve problems and deliver smarter insights for pet parents while enriching the lives of pets. Whether it’s a self-cleaning litter box that automates scooping, an automatic feeder that helps pets develop healthier eating habits, or a modern cat tree that delights both humans and felines, we strive to deliver better solutions for consumers, transforming pet care along the way. And we don’t rest once we’ve created the best—we exist to make life for pets and pet parents endlessly better. Whisker's team of 500 employees are headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan with manufacturing operations in Juneau, WI, and a growing remote team. Interested in joining? Visit www.litter-robot.com/careers.html

Founded in 1999
Auburn Hills, Michigan, USA
520 employees (60 in marketing)
0% recommend to a friend

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
720.3K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$37.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
35.9%
Direct
50.9%
Referral
4.5%
Social
7.4%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~522

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
42 (8% of company)

Funding

Total Funding
$31M
Last Raise
$31M
Private Equity, 6 years ago

Funding History

  • Dec 2019
    Private Equity • $31M

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