SEO/AEO Intern

Where You’ll Thrive

We’re an employee-owned, vertically-integrated builder of some of America’s most popular health & wellness brands. With over 1,000 team members across multiple companies, we create best-in-class products that help make the world healthier and happier. Our creative content educates the world on making smarter health choices, while the brands we own generate over $600 million of revenue annually.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Move beyond flat keyword volume to analyze conversational, multi-layered user queries and extract natural, question-based search intent.
• Optimize content using an "answer-first" architecture, crafting concise, high-density direct answers (40–60 words), explicit tables, and structured FAQ sections that AI LLMs can easily parse and ingest.
• Auxiliary in deploying machine-readable technical elements, including structured data (FAQPage, HowTo, and Product Schema) to drive rich snippets and direct AI engine citations.
• Monitor and analyze brand presence, citation share, and entity authority across major generative search summaries and traditional SERPs using Ahrefs Brand Radar or other similar tools (i.e. Profound).
• Utilize AI tools to scale content discovery and identify optimization gaps while strictly maintaining human oversight for quality control, E-E-A-T (Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness), and brand voice.
• Support efforts to build entity authority and consistency across third-party databases, knowledge graphs, and industry citation, primarily through backlinking opportunities.
• Support our brand websites Core Web Vitals scores and show consistent improvement Month-over-Month (MoM).
• Ensure our brand websites are 95% or higher site health per Site Audit Tool within Ahrefs.

Qualifications

• An analytical & strategic mindset: Exceptional ability to interpret multi-platform data sets (search patterns, click-less impressions, AI citations) and translate them into actionable optimizations.
• AEO & format savvy: Clear understanding of how LLMs and information retrieval systems weigh factors like "information gain," factual density, and semantic structure.
• AI tool literate: Familiarity with leveraging GenAI platforms (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, or Perplexity) for research, optimization, or basic prompt engineering.
• Strong communication & collaboration: Ability to seamlessly communicate insights across content and development workflows.
• Platform experience: Experience navigating WordPress (preferred) alongside industry-standard tools like JIRA, Google Search Console, Google Analytics, and SEO suites (Ahrefs, Semrush).
• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent related experience: SEO / Marketing experience (preferred).

Golden Perks & Benefits

• Professional development opportunities with mentorship, continuous learning programs, empowering you to progress and excel in your career.
• For those coming into our Woodland Hills, CA office, you’ll find a fully stocked kitchen and a free on-site gym.
• Virtual and in-person company events, like our annual holiday party, happy hours, and virtual cooking nights, designed to cultivate connections and enhance work-life balance.

Salary & Benefits

The base hourly range is $18 - $20. The posted hourly range in this job posting reflects data based on California's cost of labor analysis. This salary range is subject to change per state; please click here to find the pay differential in your state of residence if the role is remote.

Golden Hippo is an Equal Opportunity Employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status under applicable law. We will consider for employment all qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. A Note to Recruiting Agencies: At Golden Hippo, we handle all hiring through our internal Talent Acquisition team. Occasionally, we might use staffing or recruiting agencies to support our internal team in finding the right candidates. Agencies are not authorized to contact our hiring teams directly to present candidates. Our internal Talent Acquisition team is responsible for all candidate presentations to our hiring managers. Golden Hippo will need written approval and a signed agreement before submitting any candidate info for a specific job opening. Without this, we won’t pay any fees for placements.

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