[Hiring] SEO & AEO Team Lead @Discovered

Role Description

As our SEO & AEO Team Lead (AEO is answer engine optimisation, also called GEO or broadly AI search), you'll lead 2-3 of our delivery pods while running a small number of client accounts yourself to stay sharp and close to the work. Success means every client your pods look after is healthy, any account at risk has a recovery plan underway, team members always have approved work ready, and the standard of our client work keeps rising as we grow.

• Run your own client accounts.
• Be the account strategist on them: run communications, fortnightly check-ins, sign off the 90-day plan an analyst builds and present the monthly report that ties the work to the client's pipeline and revenue.
• Keep every team's delivery planned and moving.
• Attend weekly pod meetings and make sure every client has its next 30 days of work planned, reviewed and with owners assigned.
• Review work before it reaches clients.
• Catch at-risk accounts early.
• Sharpen your team's account strategy.
• Manage and develop your team.
• Hire and onboard.
• Roll out and improve our delivery standards.
• Run our AI agents and help improve them.

Qualifications

• A track record of SEO strategy you owned, including plans and root-cause analyses you built from GSC, GA4, Ahrefs or equivalent data.
• Evidence that you've reviewed and coached other people's work.
• Client escalations you've handled yourself.
• Experience keeping several client accounts on track at the same time.
• A process, checklist, template or training you created that other people adopted.
• Excellent written and verbal English and availability for a working day that overlaps meaningfully with CET.

Requirements

• You give feedback that changes the next deliverable.
• You’re detail-oriented.
• You can tell when a plan is wrong.
• You notice what's slipping before anyone asks.
• You lead with the client's business.
• You create systems, not heroics.
• You own problems through to resolution.

Benefits

• Compensation: $60K - $90K USD (or EUR/GBP equivalent) base salary, DOE.
• Fully remote: work from where you do your best work, with meaningful overlap with GMT.
• Progression: A path towards Head of SEO & AEO as you grow your people and the results your teams deliver for clients.
• Flexibility: You can have flexible working hours with the expectation of 40 hours of meaningful work per week.
• Paid leave.
• Real autonomy: you will have a voice, be trusted to do your work and make improvements to our systems.
• A small, senior team: work directly with experienced operators, with direct feedback and quick decisions.
• Annual company off-site: We get together once a year at a nice destination to relax, reset and plan.

Interview Process

• Async assessment (15 minutes)
• 30 minute call with founder
• 90 minute deep-dive into career history and work
• 3 hour paid assessment
• Reference checks with former peers and managers.

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