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, driving traffic and AI visibility for Mercury products, and turning Mercury’s expertise into discoverable, authoritative, and useful content.

About the Role

The Organic Search Marketer will identify high-impact opportunities, develop SEO and AEO strategies, experiment with new workflows and formats, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to turn strategy into shipped work. They will also strengthen how Mercury products are surfaced across owned and earned media and relentlessly test new plays to improve search traffic and visibility.

Responsibilities

• Own product-level SEO and AI Search strategies, prioritizing opportunities, closing coverage gaps, and improving content effectiveness.
• Partner cross-functionally with Social, Product, Product Marketing, Engineering, and Community teams to turn SEO and AEO opportunities into shipped work across channels.
• Work closely with Engineering to improve page speed, rendering, and site architecture, and experiment with new delivery techniques.
• Build repeatable systems, AI workflows, and guidelines for consistent, efficient, and impactful SEO and AEO efforts.
• Optimize SEO-driven evergreen content, balancing writing quality, usefulness, and brand standards.
• Identify and scope high-value tools, templates, calculators, downloadable PDFs, and other multi-format assets to make Mercury content more useful, shareable, linkable, and cite-worthy.
• Test new plays for improving traditional and AI search traffic and visibility, scaling what works and stopping what doesn't.

Requirements

• 5+ years of SEO experience, with 2-3 years focused on AEO, preferably 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.
• 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.

Pay

The target new hire base salary ranges for this role are as follows:

• US employees in New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or the San Francisco Bay Area: $128,600 - $144,600
• US employees outside of the New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle or the San Francisco Bay Area: $115,700 - $130,100
• CBC employees (any location): 121,500 CAD - 136,700 CAD

Schedule

Mercury offers flexible scheduling to accommodate diverse work styles and preferences.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities or special needs. If you need assistance, or an accommodation, please let your recruiter know once you are contacted about a role.