SEO & AEO Lead

OpenArt AI•San Carlos, CA

12h•Onsite

About The Position

OpenArt is a rapidly growing AI creative platform that empowers individuals with vision but no studio, and creators with a story but no production team. We help millions create images, videos, stories, ads, and other creative content using AI. Selected for the 2026 Disney Accelerator and recognized by Notable Capital's Prosumer AI 40, we are an ambitious, fast-paced team that values ownership and innovation. We are seeking an SEO & AEO Lead to manage our SEO efforts and enhance our visibility across Google and AI assistants. This is a player-coach role, combining team leadership with hands-on execution, focusing on scaling content production with AI.

Requirements

5–10 years of SEO experience, including managing organic growth for a high-traffic website.
Proven experience leading people, with examples of team management improving work output.
Hands-on approach: ability to conduct audits, pull data, and write briefs.
Experience shipping AI-generated content at scale, with a system for maintaining quality.
Proficiency in an AI-native workflow, utilizing LLMs and agents, including data integration with tools like MCP.
Strong technical SEO fundamentals and practical AEO experience or a well-defined perspective on AEO strategy.
Strong data fluency, comfortable with SQL or BI tools for data analysis and validation.
Based in the Bay Area or willing to relocate.

Nice To Haves

Experience in consumer or content-heavy platforms.
Experience with programmatic page generation at scale.
Experience managing teams across different time zones.
Digital PR and link-building experience for high-difficulty head terms.
International SEO experience.

Responsibilities

Own organic strategy and growth end-to-end across Google and AI assistants, including cluster strategy, page production, technical health, link building, and driving results in traffic, rankings, and paid subscribers.
Achieve top search results for challenging category head terms in AI image and video, assessing content quality and authority needs.
Manage measurement, connecting SEO performance to revenue by cluster, and making data-driven decisions on investment allocation.
Lead the SEO team daily, setting standards for briefs, templates, and reviews, and taking full ownership of team output.
Coach the team on AEO and AI-assisted content workflows.
Execute production of high-difficulty content clusters personally, from keyword research to live pages, setting the standard for AI-powered content creation.
Develop and maintain a scalable production system for publishing hundreds of pages monthly using AI, including prompts, templates, review criteria, and quality control.
Own OpenArt's presence in AI assistants and AI Overviews, defining actionable metrics for leadership.
Earn citations through comparison pages, structured Q&A, schema, original data, and off-site content.
Direct link acquisition efforts, including target page selection, anchor strategy, budget allocation, and quality review.
Ensure technical SEO health as publishing volume increases, collaborating with engineering and prioritizing SEO initiatives.
Write actionable tickets for engineers and advocate for SEO work priorities.