Director of AEO, SEO

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead and develop the AEO & SEO team, encompassing hiring, coaching, accountability, leadership growth, capacity planning, and succession planning.

• Manage the department’s P&L, headcount, KPIs, annual budget contributions, staffing, scope, margins, and growth through expansion and new service offerings.

• Proactively engage with clients to identify challenges, opportunities, sentiments, and potential areas for additional work.

• Generate qualified leads, introductions, and closed deals through industry relationships, LinkedIn, events, and collaboration with the Sales team.

• Collaborate with Leadership and Sales to effectively package and price AEO & SEO services.

• Own the AEO & SEO perspective, measurement philosophy, playbooks, and direction of methodologies.

• Drive AI integration by establishing standards and developing tools, workflows, and agents to automate repetitive tasks.

• Define and uphold excellence standards for research, strategy, reporting, and quality assurance of deliverables.

• Ensure client health across the portfolio in collaboration with Account Management, Digital PR, and Editorial leaders.

• Report directly to the Chief Client Officer and work alongside Directors, Account Management, founders, and Sales.

⛳️ Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in SEO and organic growth.

• Significant hands-on AEO work within the last 18-24 months.

• Familiarity with AI visibility tools such as Peec or Profound.

• Ability to articulate visibility, share of voice, citations, and provide recommendations.

• Strong perspective on AI search, how AI models formulate answers, and strategies for enhancing visibility.

• Experience leading multi-level teams, including managers or team leads.

• Proven track record of owning a P&L, developing annual budgets, and achieving GPM targets.

• Commercial mindset: adept at linking organic work to pipeline and revenue while defending attribution approaches to a discerning C-suite.

• Established industry network and market presence.

• Player-coach capable of conveying complex ideas to analysts and CMOs.

• Experience in driving AI adoption and implementing agents and automations for AEO and SEO tasks.

• Strong attention to detail.

• Experience in an agency setting and/or in-house B2B roles.

• Proficient in presenting to CMOs, CEOs, and VPs.

• Application must include passcode AEO2026.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health insurance coverage: 90% of medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums for employees in the US.

• 401k plan with employer matching: 100% of contributions up to the first 3% of pay, followed by 50% of contributions on the next 2% of pay.

• Profit-sharing opportunity: eligibility to participate in quarterly profit share after one year of employment.

• Unlimited vacation policy; a minimum of 14 days recommended annually.

• $2,000 learning and development stipend after one year of employment.

• Free books program: includes a Kindle and one Kindle book per month.

• $50 per month networking stipend.

• Complete remote work flexibility.

• Annual team offsite events.

• Team trips organized each year.