Organic Search Marketer - SEO/AEO
Job Summary
Mercury is seeking an Organic Search Marketer (SEO/AEO) to help define how Mercury shows up across search engines, answer engines, and AI-native discovery. This role involves shaping Mercury’s modern search strategy to provide trusted guidance to founders and entrepreneurs.
About the Role
The Organic Search Marketer will identify high-impact opportunities, develop SEO and AEO strategies, experiment with new workflows and formats, and help turn Mercury’s expertise into content that is discoverable, authoritative, and genuinely useful.
Responsibilities
Own product-level SEO and AI Search strategies, using performance data, competitor deep dives, and audience insights to prioritize opportunities, close coverage gaps, and improve content effectiveness over time.
Partner cross-functionally with Social, Product, Product Marketing, Engineering, and Community teams to turn SEO and AEO opportunities into shipped work across channels, including blog content, YouTube scripts, social, and community surfaces.
Work closely with Engineering to improve page speed, rendering, and site architecture and experiment with new delivery techniques to make the site accessible and fast for both humans and bots.
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.
Relentlessly test new plays for improving traditional and AI search traffic and visibility, from new page types to edge caching for bots, scaling what works, stopping what doesn't, and feeding learnings back into team-wide strategy.
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 knowing what to prioritize, what to scale, and what to cut.
Qualifications
Strong commercial instincts and a collaborative operator who can partner effectively with cross-functional teams.
An analytical thinker who can design and run thoughtful experiments and a practical builder who knows when to move quickly, learn, and ship.
Benefits
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. New hire offers are made based on a candidate’s experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.
Contact Information
To apply, please submit your resume as well as a short cover letter, with your application. Applications without a cover letter will not be considered.