Organic Growth & Discovery Lead (SEO/AEO)

Dave

2d • $158,000 - $204,000 • Remote

About The Position

Dave is a financial app on a mission to build products that level the financial playing field. We are redefining the financial landscape by leveraging technology to create an affordable, transparent, and user-centric access to liquidity for millions of Americans. As a leading innovator in the U.S. financial services sector, Dave’s digital financial platform offers products designed to meet the credit needs of those underserved by traditional financial institutions. Dave’s offerings include its flagship ExtraCash product, providing members up to $500 within minutes. The company is on track to launch several new product offerings in 2026, including a Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) option. Dave is focused on serving Americans who are financially vulnerable or living paycheck to paycheck. Dave is leading the charge in creating a new era of credit products that prioritizes speed, affordability, and accessibility, making it the go-to financial partner for those who need it most.

We're looking for an Organic Growth & Discovery Lead to own the on-site and off-site content that makes Dave findable in search and AI answer engines, and to turn that visibility into new members at an efficient cost. This role sits within the User Acquisition team and focuses on how Dave gets found. You will own the onsite content portfolio that earns the ranking, the offsite authority that earns the citation, and the reporting that proves any of it worked. Content is the whole job - most of what wins here is a well-built portfolio with real topical authority behind it and the editorial judgment to know what is worth publishing. Dave is an app-first business, so the bar for this channel is filling and converting the web-to-app funnel, generating new members at an efficient cost, not solely traffic acquisition.

You will not own the technical layer. Your Product and martech partner owns site structure, site speed, the technical roadmap, and tooling. You need to be fluent enough in technical aspects of SEO and AEO to know what is limiting discoverability and to make the case for it cross-functionally.
You’ll work closely with teams across brand, content, product, martech, analytics, partnerships, and compliance. AEO is new; not everything will be fully defined - part of the role is helping shape what organic discovery should even mean for a consumer fintech, including how we measure a surface the industry hasn’t standardized yet based on your SEO expertise.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in SEO, content marketing, organic growth, or growth marketing, including at least 2 years of hands-on work on AEO, GEO, or AI search optimization and a track record of leading cross-functional initiatives (specifically for consumer products/b2c).
• Demonstrated success growing organic into a real acquisition channel measured against a business outcome and cost efficiency rather than traffic, with specific work you can walk through and explain.
• Onsite content strategy depth - you’ve built topical authority from scratch, mapped content to real search and prompt intent, directed writers through briefs, and made hard calls about what to consolidate or kill, with the writing and editing judgment to hold the work to a publishable standard.
• Offsite experience earning placements, coverage, or citations through partnerships, affiliates, or digital PR, and the judgment to explain why a given placement was worth pursuing.
• Current, hands-on experience improving visibility in AI answer engines, and a defensible point of view on how to measure it.
• Technical and data fluency without needing to be the expert - you can read a site audit, understand how structure and performance affect discoverability, brief a product team credibly, and pull and interrogate your own data in GA4, Search Console, spreadsheets, or SQL.

Nice To Haves

• Fintech or financial services industry experience
• Experience with programmatic or templated content at scale
• Familiar with organic strategies for App channels (App Store Optimization, etc)

Responsibilities

• Define the strategy and roadmap for organic discovery across search and AI answer engines, and own the forecast, budget, and reporting cadence for marketing leadership.
• Own the onsite content portfolio end-to-end: topical authority and content architecture, keyword and prompt research, intent mapping, the editorial roadmap, and the briefs that direct writers and agencies. Write and edit to a publishable standard, and run a consistent cadence of refresh, consolidation, and pruning so the portfolio gets stronger rather than just bigger.
• Own where and how Dave shows up beyond dave.com, including forums, communities like Reddit, and other third-party sources that influence search and AI answers, working with marketing partnership and affiliate teams to earn the placements, coverage, and citations that build real authority.
• Own how Dave shows up in ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and AI Overviews, including the measurement approach for citations, share of voice, and accuracy.
• Partner with Product and Martech leads on the technical work that unlocks discoverability and the tools this channel needs, bringing each a business case they can prioritize against.
• Build the reporting that ties organic and AI-sourced traffic to installs, new members, and acquisition cost efficiency, including the content side of the web-to-app path.
• Own the trust signals that make Dave's content credible to both search and answer engines: E-E-A-T, sourcing, author attribution, and factual accuracy. Financial content is held to a higher standard, so keep organic practices aligned with fintech regulatory requirements and Dave's brand safety standards.

Benefits

• Opportunity to tackle tough challenges, learn and grow from fellow top talent, and help millions of people reach their personal financial goals
• Flexible hours and virtual-first work culture with a home office stipend
• Premium Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance plans
• Generous paid parental and caregiver leave
• 401(k) savings plan with matching contributions
• Financial advisor and financial wellness support
• Flexible PTO and generous company holidays, including Juneteenth and Winter Break
• All-company in-person events once or twice a year and virtual events throughout to connect with your team members and leadership team

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed