Senior Manager, SEO/AEO (AI Search)

Location: Fully remote, with at least 4 hours of US time-zone overlap.

Salary: $100,000–$150,000 USD per year.

Company

hirify.global combines marketing services, software, and AI to help clients grow qualified organic pipeline and visibility in search and answer engines.

What you will do

• Diagnose client search demand, answer-engine visibility, technical health, content systems, conversion paths, and baselines.
• Own SEO/AEO roadmaps, prioritize what ships next, and lead client strategy calls with proactive recommendations.
• Track weekly citations across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews using fixed client prompt sets.
• Build and maintain agents for research, briefs, content refreshes, internal linking, technical checks, reporting, and other production work.
• Set acceptance criteria for writers, developers, and analysts while maintaining human checks for facts, brand, and technical accuracy.
• Report citations, qualified organic traffic, pipeline, and revenue attribution, and create runbooks for repeatable execution.

Requirements

• 6+ years in SEO or organic growth, currently operating at Senior Manager, Associate Director, Director, or Head scope with client-facing ownership.
• Shipped answer-engine or AI-for-SEO work that can be inspected through pages, citations, and measurement methods.
• One agent or workflow built and still maintained, including inputs, outputs, quality assurance, and measurable results.
• One quantified result involving citations, qualified traffic, pipeline, or revenue, including the baseline, period, and attribution method.
• Demonstrable AI fluency, including how answer engines retrieve and cite sources and which decisions require personal judgment.
• Strong technical SEO, analytics, and prioritization judgment.
• Steady tenure; internal promotions are valued.
• Client-facing experience in a specialist search agency or in-house growth team that ships, ideally in B2B.
• Ability to work remotely with at least 4 hours of US time-zone overlap.

Nice to have

• Experience in a specialist search agency or an in-house B2B growth team that ships.
• Internal promotions within the same company.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work with a client-facing player-coach scope rather than a people-manager seat.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus life insurance.
• 401(k) with a 4% match.
• Unlimited PTO, monthly UberEats, a MacBook, and a home-office stipend or setup.
• AI tools and internal platforms including Single Brain and ClickFlow.

Hiring process

• Submit a resume or LinkedIn profile and answer 7 short questions sent by email.
• Complete an evidence review and a live working session covering site diagnosis, an AEO plan, and measurement.
• Complete a paid, time-boxed practical exercise on two sample accounts with a live defense, followed by references.