Editor-in-Chief, SEO & AEO Content

Jerry.ai•San Francisco, CA

9d•$150,000 - $190,000•Remote

About The Position

Jerry.ai is seeking an Editor-in-Chief to lead the company's content quality and output across its website (jerry.ai) and external platforms. This role will be responsible for building and managing a system that establishes Jerry as an authoritative source of information wherever customers seek answers. The position requires a strong understanding of the evolving discovery landscape, including not only traditional SEO but also Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) to ensure visibility in AI-generated responses from platforms like ChatGPT and Claude. The Editor-in-Chief will own traffic and AI-citation targets directly impacting business growth and will be instrumental in rebuilding Jerry's AI-native content system, including designing and operating the entire brief-to-publish pipeline. A critical aspect of this role is ensuring the accuracy and compliance of content, particularly in the YMYL (Your Money Your Life) finance category, which has a zero-tolerance standard for factual claims and requires rigorous verification and human judgment.

Requirements

7+ years in content and editorial roles.
3+ years leading an SEO-driven content program at a consumer, fintech, insurtech, or marketplace brand, or at a content-led media or affiliate site.
Demonstrable organic growth results (sessions grown, publish volume scaled, topic cluster built) with supporting dashboard data.
Hands-on command of LLMs (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) for drafting and research.
Proficiency with SEO and content tools such as Sitefire, Surfer, Clearscope, MarketMuse, or Frase.
Fluency in Google Search Console (GSC), Semrush or Ahrefs, and Google Analytics 4 (GA4).
Comfortable owning a traffic target, not just reporting on it.
Experience managing at least one writer and/or a freelance bench, while continuing to produce content personally.
A portfolio demonstrating voice, editorial judgment, and accuracy, not just keyword density.
Experience shipping a real AI-assisted content pipeline in production with guardrails that maintained quality at scale.
Understanding of where AI earns its place and where it creates risk in content production.
Experience tracking brand presence in AI answer engines and knowledge of what impacts performance.
Experience working in a regulated or high-stakes content category (insurance, personal finance, health, or legal) where accuracy is paramount.

Responsibilities

Own Jerry's editorial engine across jerry.ai and external platforms, including roadmap, architecture, resource allocation, and organic traffic and conversion targets.
Define content strategy and achieve associated numbers.
Design and run the brief → AI draft → human edit → QA → publish workflow for AI-native content production.
Manage and develop prompt libraries, QA gates, and quality-drift metrics to enable scalable output without degradation.
Set policy on AI's role in content creation and define human involvement checkpoints.
Build pages and content clusters that rank on Google and earn citations from AI answer engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, AI Overviews).
Structure content for answer capsules, question-based headings, FAQ schema, and entity optimization.
Stay updated on the evolving AI landscape and ensure model updates benefit Jerry's content.
Track citation presence across search and AI answer engines and own the roadmap for closing gaps.
Set and enforce Jerry's voice and style guide across writers, freelancers, and AI output.
Build the trust infrastructure required for YMYL finance content, including named expert authors, sourcing discipline, editorial review processes, and transparent credentials.
Manage one direct report, AI agents, and a freelance bench.
Set the editorial bar through personal work and leadership.