SEO + AI Search Specialist (Contract/Part-Time)

SketchDeck

3d•Remote

About The Position

AI-driven discovery is reshaping how audiences find brands, and we are helping our clients lead the way — across AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and beyond. We are looking for a senior SEO and AI search specialist contractor to help our clients show up where their audiences are searching now. Approximately 10 hours per week, ongoing, across a mix of B2B and B2C projects.

Requirements

5–10+ years of hands-on SEO experience across technical, on-page, and content optimization. Agency or enterprise background preferred.
Active work in AI search optimization — AEO, GEO, and AIO. We know this space is new; we want someone experimenting with real results to point to, not someone claiming a decade of expertise that doesn't exist yet.
Fluent in the modern tool stack: Ahrefs or SEMrush, Google Search Console, GA4, Screaming Frog, Schema.org, and at least one AI visibility tracker.
Strong content instincts. You understand how editorial quality, entity clarity, and answer-first structure drive both rankings and AI citations.
Clear communicator. You can translate technical concepts for non-technical clients and write recommendations creative teams can act on.
Comfortable with ambiguity. You test, measure, and adjust rather than wait for settled best practices.
Mix of B2B and B2C experience, ideally including technical/enterprise B2B and consumer brands.

Responsibilities

Conduct technical and content SEO audits, identify AI search visibility gaps, and recommend prioritized roadmaps.
Improve client visibility in Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini through structured data, entity optimization, citation strategy, and answer-first content.
Lead keyword research, search intent mapping, and content briefs for both traditional SERPs and AI surfaces.
Review crawlability, indexation, schema, Core Web Vitals, and rendering. Partner with client or internal dev teams on fixes.
Set up and interpret performance data across GA4, Google Search Console, Ahrefs/SEMrush, and AI visibility tools (Profound, Otterly, Peec AI).
Help us evaluate new AI search tools as they emerge.
Brief our writers and designers on SEO/AEO requirements and join client calls as the SEO subject matter expert.