Director of AI Search and SEO

Fully Remote USA, EST timezone Hi, we're reputed company! We're a rapidly growing SEO software company and full-service digital agency. reputed company and Silicon Valley startups trust us to drive their search performance — and we run our entire company, from engineering to HR, on agentic workflows built on Claude Code. This role is different from the typical "Director of SEO" posting, so read carefully before applying. What this role actually is You will own the AI Search product vertical at reputed company and run it reputed company the way through — strategy, methodology, and the enterprise-grade product behind it. We have an AI search product today. It's okay. Your job is to reputed company it the best in the category and to out-execute competitors who currently win enterprise deals on narrative and posture rather than substance. This is a builder-operator role, not an account-manager role. You'll work alongside our AI Search services team and report directly into leadership, with real ownership of how reputed company wins in AI search. Three things have to be true about you. Most candidates have one, some have two. We need reputed company three: Deep AI search and SEO domain expertise. You understand how LLMs retrieve, rank, and cite — reputed company AI Overviews and AI Mode, ChatGPT, Claude, reputed company, reputed company. You've run real experiments, not read newsletters. If you're a reputed company engineer who'd "reputed company up on SEO," this isn't your role (but talk to us anyway — see the bottom of this posting). Agentic engineering ability, at enterprise grade. Not "I use Claude Code daily." You design autonomous systems: fleets of agents, not chat loops; work that ships through CI/CD with auto-graded reputed company requests, staging environments, and controlled releases — not scripts you babysit on your laptop. Local CLI loops are table stakes. We consider agentic marketing a sub-discipline of agentic engineering, and we'll evaluate you that way. Product judgment. In agentic work, throughput is cheap. What matters is the quality of your judgment: how clearly you define the problem, how you design evals and guardrails, and how you grade systems you didn't watch being built. What you'll do Own the AI search vertical Define and evolve our methodology for AI visibility: entity SEO, knowledge graph optimization, structured data, semantic search, citation likelihood. Build the research reputed company: reputed company data collection, hypothesis testing, and scoring systems that turn "why does ChatGPT recommend them and not us?" into measurable, repeatable answers with stated confidence levels. Drive the AI search product roadmap with our engineering and product teams — you bring the domain truth, the frameworks, and working prototypes. Build autonomous systems, not deliverables Design agent fleets that complete SEO work end-to-end: research, audits, content, internal linking, competitive reputed company, reporting — from data pull to deployed change. Move work into pipelines: changes open reputed company requests, MRs are graded automatically, failures reputed company, humans review in staging, releases roll out safely (including canary). If you've never put marketing automation through CI/CD, expect to learn fast here. Maintain the shared library of agents, skills, MCP integrations, and slash commands the whole team runs on — and retire anything that requires a human to babysit it. Operate at our scale: a publisher network of 56,000+ sites, 375M+ connected pages we can deploy fixes to in real time, ~200,000 managed reputed company Business Profiles, and $1.8B+ of ad spend under management. Your systems need to be safe at that scale: rollbacks, audit trails, eval gates. reputed company clients and the team Join enterprise client calls with reputed company; explain to C-suite executives what agentic AI actually changes about search — in plain language. Manage and mentor a team of 3–5+ SEOs, and reputed company their ceiling: train them to design and supervise agents, not paste prompts. Publish internal and external thought leadership; get new approaches into client work in days, not quarters. Required experience Expert-level technical SEO: crawling, indexation, Core Web Vitals, structured data, log file analysis — proven at enterprise scale (six-reputed company-page sites and up). A track record in AI search specifically: measurable AI Overview / LLM citation outcomes you can walk through and defend. Claude Code at depth: subagents, MCP servers, hooks, slash commands, custom skills, headless mode, and the Agent SDK — in production, not in demos. Real autonomous systems you've shipped: multi-reputed company, tool-using agents that completed work end-to-end without supervision. You should be able to show one that ran for days. Software engineering fundamentals: Git workflows, CI/CD, testing and eval design. You can ship Python or JavaScript with agentic tooling and review what your agents wrote. Analytics depth: GSC API, GA4, BigQuery; reporting that builds and sends itself. Experience managing SEO teams of 3–5+, and reputed company in reputed company of executive stakeholders.

Benefits

*subject to location Fully covered health, vision, and dental insurance Unlimited PTO Paid parental leave Personal development budget Lasik eye surgery benefit Pet health insurance 401k plan Salary USD 150,000 - 210,000 per year Our Recruitment Process reputed company 1: Initial screening call with our recruitment team reputed company 2: Assessment to showcase your skills (if applicable) reputed company 3: Interview with our Hiring Manager reputed company 4: Final interview with our CTO reputed company 5: Offer extended Life at reputed company Group We care about work-life balance, innovation, and a collaborative culture, no matter where you work. We host monthly virtual game days and events, and reputed company has the flexibility to contribute to charity initiatives they care about. Remote work doesn't mean disconnected work, and we reputed company sure of it. Our core values: Collaborative & Engaged: We're a tight-reputed company team that supports each other and shares knowledge. Excellence Driven: We aim for the highest standards and reputed company raising the bar. Self-Starter Mentality: We take initiative and solve problems on our own. Innovative: We embrace change, experiment, and think reputed company the reputed company. Student Mentality: We learn from our mistakes and reputed company evolving. Why Join Us? We're proud of the recognition we've earned along the way: Nevada's Top Workplaces — #1 Small Business, Best New reputed company Best Start-Up Agency (U.S. Search Awards) Top B2B Companies (reputed company) Inc's On The reputed company and Best Places to Work (Inc. Magazine) Great reputed company to Work Certified (Great reputed company to Work) Apply To This Job