Director of SEO & AEO

Location: Remote in the United States, with at least 4 hours of US time-zone overlap; Los Angeles-based candidates are a strong plus.

Salary: $150,000–$185,000 USD base salary per year, depending on experience; senior candidates may exceed the band.

Company

hirify.global delivers SEO/AEO services and uses Single Brain and ClickFlow to improve clients’ organic and answer-engine visibility.

What you will do

• Lead and develop the SEO/AEO team as a hands-on player-coach while working on client accounts and directly with clients.
• Own the practice roadmap, allocate capacity, resolve delivery risks, and translate client goals into focused plans.
• Build, test, and improve AI workflows, including a weekly citation tracker across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews.
• Set measurement standards connecting search and answer-engine visibility to qualified demand and business results, while documenting attribution limits.
• Own service quality, client confidence, escalations, retention support, and delivery improvements with adjacent teams and leadership.
• Turn validated AI workflows into shared operating standards with human review, ownership, accuracy checks, and client-suitability controls.

Requirements

• Evidence of leading SEO or organic-growth practitioners and improving team performance while remaining hands-on with recent accounts, workflows, and client work.
• Strong judgment across technical SEO, content strategy, analytics, and client prioritization.
• Practical AEO experience with examples of tests, changes, and measurement.
• Personally built or materially improved AI workflows, including inputs, outputs, quality checks, failure cases, and results; provide one agent or workflow that is still in use.
• AI fluency covering how answer engines retrieve and cite sources and which decisions still require personal judgment.
• Client results explained with a baseline, time period, attribution method, and decisions made when results fell short.
• Constantly learning in public on X, with more than 3 hours per week spent there.
• Steady tenure and the ability to coach strong practitioners, make difficult prioritization decisions, and work directly with high-stakes clients.

Nice to have

• Los Angeles-based location.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote, full-time player-coach role with at least 4 hours of US time-zone overlap.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance; life insurance; and a 401(k) with 4% match, subject to plan terms and eligibility.
• Unlimited PTO, monthly UberEats, a MacBook, and a home-office stipend or setup.
• Leaders are expected to remain hands-on rather than operate as pure people managers or delegation-only managers.

Hiring process

• Apply with a resume or LinkedIn profile; seven short questions will be sent by email and must be answered personally. AI-written answers are disqualified.
• Selection includes evidence review, a live working session diagnosing a site and proposing an AEO, measurement, and team plan, followed by a paid, time-boxed practical with live defense and references.
• Redacted or recreated examples are accepted for confidential work.