Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Search Atlas is a rapidly growing SEO software company and full-service digital agency trusted by Fortune 500 companies and Silicon Valley startups. They are seeking a Director of AI Search and SEO to own the AI search product vertical, drive the product roadmap, and lead a team while ensuring the development of autonomous systems for SEO tasks.

Responsibilities

• Own the AI search vertical
• Define and evolve our methodology for AI visibility: entity SEO, knowledge graph optimization, structured data, semantic search, citation likelihood
• Build the research engine: continuous data collection, hypothesis testing, and scoring systems that turn "why does ChatGPT recommend them and not us?" into measurable, repeatable answers with stated confidence levels
• Drive the AI search product roadmap with our engineering and product teams — you bring the domain truth, the frameworks, and working prototypes
• Design agent fleets that complete SEO work end-to-end: research, audits, content, internal linking, competitive intel, reporting — from data pull to deployed change
• Move work into pipelines: changes open merge requests, MRs are graded automatically, failures block, humans review in staging, releases roll out safely (including canary). If you've never put marketing automation through CI/CD, expect to learn fast here
• Maintain the shared library of agents, skills, MCP integrations, and slash commands the whole team runs on — and retire anything that requires a human to babysit it
• Operate at our scale: a publisher network of 56,000+ sites, 375M+ connected pages we can deploy fixes to in real time, ~200,000 managed Google Business Profiles, and $1.8B+ of ad spend under management. Your systems need to be safe at that scale: rollbacks, audit trails, eval gates
• Join enterprise client calls with Customer Success; explain to C-suite executives what agentic AI actually changes about search — in plain language
• Manage and mentor a team of 3–5+ SEOs, and raise their ceiling: train them to design and supervise agents, not paste prompts
• Publish internal and external thought leadership; get new approaches into client work in days, not quarters

Skills

• Deep AI search and SEO domain expertise. You understand how LLMs retrieve, rank, and cite — Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini. You've run real experiments, not read newsletters
• Agentic engineering ability, at enterprise grade. Not 'I use Claude Code daily.' You design autonomous systems: fleets of agents, not chat loops; work that ships through CI/CD with auto-graded merge requests, staging environments, and controlled releases — not scripts you babysit on your laptop
• Product judgment. In agentic work, throughput is cheap. What matters is the quality of your judgment: how clearly you define the problem, how you design evals and guardrails, and how you grade systems you didn't watch being built
• Expert-level technical SEO: crawling, indexation, Core Web Vitals, structured data, log file analysis — proven at enterprise scale (six-figure-page sites and up)
• A track record in AI search specifically: measurable AI Overview / LLM citation outcomes you can walk through and defend
• Claude Code at depth: subagents, MCP servers, hooks, slash commands, custom skills, headless mode, and the Agent SDK — in production, not in demos
• Real autonomous systems you've shipped: multi-step, tool-using agents that completed work end-to-end without supervision. You should be able to show one that ran for days
• Software engineering fundamentals: Git workflows, CI/CD, testing and eval design. You can ship Python or JavaScript with agentic tooling and review what your agents wrote
• Analytics depth: GSC API, GA4, BigQuery; reporting that builds and sends itself
• Experience managing SEO teams of 3–5+, and presence in front of executive stakeholders

Benefits

• Fully covered health, vision, and dental insurance
• Unlimited PTO
• Paid parental leave
• Personal development budget
• Lasik eye surgery benefit
• Pet health insurance
• 401k plan

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