Organic Search Marketer - SEO/AEO

Overview

Mercury is looking for 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, focusing on organic search and AI-enhanced search.

About the Role

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. Build repeatable systems, AI workflows, and guidelines that increase the consistency, efficiency, and impact of Mercury’s SEO and AEO efforts.

Responsibilities

• Identify high-impact opportunities and develop SEO and AEO strategies that drive traffic and AI visibility for Mercury products.
• Experiment with new workflows and formats to help turn Mercury’s expertise into discoverable, authoritative, and useful content.
• Build repeatable systems, AI workflows, and guidelines to 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 the ability to act independently.
• Collaborative operator who can partner effectively with cross-functional teams.
• An analytical thinker who can design and run thoughtful experiments.
• 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
• Canadian employees (any location): 121,500 CAD - 136,700 CAD

Schedule

Mercury is an equal opportunity employer and is 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.