Senior Manager, SEO/AEO (AI Search)

Responsibilities

• Diagnose each client's search demand, answer-engine visibility, technical health, content system, and conversion path; set baselines and targets.
• Own the SEO/AEO roadmap for your accounts and decide what ships next.
• Track answer-engine citations: a fixed prompt set per client, run weekly across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews, logging where the client and its competitors are cited.
• Build and maintain the agents that do production (research, briefs, refreshes, internal linking, technical checks, reporting) and get teammates using them.
• Keep brief-to-publish under five working days, with a human check on facts, brand, and technical accuracy.
• Lead client strategy calls with proactive recommendations; give writers, developers, and analysts clear acceptance criteria.
• Report monthly in terms a GM would use: citations, qualified organic traffic, and pipeline or revenue where attribution allows.
• Write runbooks so the system runs without you at the keyboard.

Requirements

• 6+ years in SEO or organic growth, currently at Senior Manager, Associate Director, Director, or Head scope, with client-facing ownership.
• Shipped answer-engine or AI-for-SEO work we can inspect: the pages, the citations, and how you measured them.
• One agent or workflow you built and still maintain that removed real production work: inputs, outputs, QA, and the result.
• One quantified result (citations, qualified traffic, pipeline, or revenue) with the baseline, period, and how you attributed it.
• AI fluency you can show: how answer engines retrieve and cite sources, and which calls you still make yourself.
• Strong technical SEO, analytics, and prioritization judgment.
• Steady tenure; internal promotions are a big plus (same company counts fully).
• Ideal: specialist search agency or an in-house growth team that ships; B2B.

Preferred

• Ideal: specialist search agency or an in-house growth team that ships; B2B.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision; life insurance; 401(k) with 4% match; unlimited PTO; monthly UberEats; MacBook; home-office stipend/setup. Subject to plan terms and eligibility.