Organic Search Marketer - SEO/AEO

About the role

The Organic Search Marketer (SEO/AEO) is responsible for defining how Mercury shows up across search engines, answer engines, and AI-native discovery. This role involves identifying high-impact opportunities, developing SEO and AEO strategies, experimenting with new workflows and formats, and ensuring that Mercury’s expertise is discoverable, authoritative, and genuinely useful.

Responsibilities

• Identify high-impact opportunities and develop SEO and AEO strategies that drive traffic and AI visibility for Mercury products.
• Partner cross-functionally with Social, Product, Product Marketing, Engineering, and Community teams to turn SEO and AEO opportunities into shipped work across channels.
• Own the technical SEO/AEO roadmap for Mercury.com, working closely with Engineering to improve page speed, rendering, and site architecture.
• Build repeatable systems, AI workflows, and guidelines that increase the consistency, efficiency, and impact of Mercury’s SEO and AEO efforts.
• Drive SEO-driven evergreen content optimizations, working with content partners to improve performance while preserving writing quality, usefulness, and brand standards.
• Identify and scope high-value tools, templates, calculators, downloadable PDFs, and other multi-format assets that make Mercury content more useful, shareable, linkable, and cite-worthy.
• Create and execute tests to improve traditional and AI search traffic and visibility, from new page types to edge caching for bots.

Requirements

5+ years of SEO experience, with 2-3 years focused on AEO, ideally in a fast-moving startup environment. Deep technical fluency paired with a clear grasp of how LLMs interpret and weight content differently from traditional search engines. Hands-on experience with AI agents and automation tools, with a builder's instinct for turning them into repeatable systems. Sharp, data-informed judgment for prioritizing, scaling, and cutting initiatives.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial instincts and curiosity to help define Mercury’s modern search strategy.
• Proven ability to turn strategy into shipped, high-quality work independently.
• Collaborative approach to working with cross-functional teams.
• Data-informed decision-making skills.
• Technical fluency in SEO and AEO, including understanding of LLMs, bots, and traditional search engines.

Skills

• SEO and AEO fluency
• AI-native mindset
• Commercial instincts
• Collaboration and partnership
• Data analysis and experimentation
• Technical fluency in SEO and AEO
• Experience with AI agents and automation tools

Benefits

Mercury offers a comprehensive benefits package including base salary, equity (stock options/RSUs), and benefits. Salary and equity ranges are highly competitive within the SaaS and fintech industry, and new hire offers are made based on experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.

Pay

The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity (stock options/RSUs), and benefits. Our salary and equity ranges are highly competitive within the SaaS and fintech industry and are updated regularly using the most reliable compensation survey data for our industry.

Schedule

Remote within Canada or United States, or located in San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, or Portland, OR.