Sr. AEO/SEO Strategist

About the role

Lead the identification of key customers at risk to achieving their outcomes by uncovering trends across at-risk accounts, and own the development of playbooks that enable account teams to proactively identify and act on solutions to mitigate risk.

Serve as a senior consultant to understand the SEO, content, and web operations, strategic priorities, and develop tailored strategic success plans and recommendations that drive clear, measurable outcomes in line with customer priorities.

Partner cross-functionally with Customer Success and Sales leadership to identify key customer challenges, opportunities, and renewal risk, and drive remediation efforts across internal stakeholder groups to mitigate risk of loss on high-value accounts.

Champion the use of AI tools to create efficiencies in day-to-day processes, both internally and for customers, and help shape best practices that other team members can adopt.

Provide advanced analysis and leverage AI tools to build customer dashboards that surface key insights into customer business and account performance.

Drive engagement with executive sponsors, acting as a strategic voice to facilitate enablement and adoption of key solutions across organizations.

Craft and present strategic plans and business cases at the executive level to demonstrate the value of our partnership and build alignment on key Conductor solutions.

Mentor and go-to resource for other Strategists, sharing SEO/AEO expertise, elevating team capability, and contributing to internal enablement or training initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead the identification of key customers at risk to achieving their outcomes by uncovering trends across at-risk accounts, and own the development of playbooks that enable account teams to proactively identify and act on solutions to mitigate risk.
• Serve as a senior consultant to understand the SEO, content, and web operations, strategic priorities, and develop tailored strategic success plans and recommendations that drive clear, measurable outcomes in line with customer priorities.
• Partner cross-functionally with Customer Success and Sales leadership to identify key customer challenges, opportunities, and renewal risk, and drive remediation efforts across internal stakeholder groups to mitigate risk of loss on high-value accounts.
• Champion the use of AI tools to create efficiencies in day-to-day processes, both internally and for customers, and help shape best practices that other team members can adopt.
• Provide advanced analysis and leverage AI tools to build customer dashboards that surface key insights into customer business and account performance.
• Drive engagement with executive sponsors, acting as a strategic voice to facilitate enablement and adoption of key solutions across organizations.
• Craft and present strategic plans and business cases at the executive level to demonstrate the value of our partnership and build alignment on key Conductor solutions.
• Mentor and go-to resource for other Strategists, sharing SEO/AEO expertise, elevating team capability, and contributing to internal enablement or training initiatives.

Requirements

• Deep SEO/AEO Expertise: 5+ years of experience in digital marketing, with at least 3 years specifically focused on SEO/AEO (agency or in-house).
• You have a deep understanding of the "how" and "why" behind organic search and can speak credibly to both practitioners and executives.
• Technical Fluency: You have experience leading comprehensive website audits and are confident making — and defending — advanced technical optimization recommendations.
• Results-Driven, Strategic Mindset: You can provide actionable insights, prioritize them by impact, and confidently push back on client strategies with informed alternative recommendations, even in high-stakes or executive conversations.
• AI Proficiency: You use AI tools to create efficiencies in your day-to-day activities and your work for clients, and can guide others on how to do the same.
• Data Literacy: You are comfortable working with and extracting insights from data sets using Excel/Google Sheets, LLMs like Gemini and Claude, as well as other tools.
• Executive-Level Communication Skills: You can clearly explain SEO/AEO concepts and strategic recommendations to internal and external teams, senior leadership, and executive sponsors, in both verbal and written formats.
• Continuous Learner Mentality: The search landscape changes weekly. You actively follow industry blogs and are considered a go-to resource on how AI and LLMs are shifting the future of SEO.
• Organization, Ownership & Leadership: You have a track record of managing your own book of strategic accounts across multiple projects, take pride in meeting deadlines and delivering clean, accurate work, and are comfortable mentoring or informally guiding less experienced team members.

Qualifications

• Deep SEO/AEO Expertise: 5+ years of experience in digital marketing, with at least 3 years specifically focused on SEO/AEO (agency or in-house).
• You have a deep understanding of the "how" and "why" behind organic search and can speak credibly to both practitioners and executives.
• Technical Fluency: You have experience leading comprehensive website audits and are confident making — and defending — advanced technical optimization recommendations.
• Results-Driven, Strategic Mindset: You can provide actionable insights, prioritize them by impact, and confidently push back on client strategies with informed alternative recommendations, even in high-stakes or executive conversations.
• AI Proficiency: You use AI tools to create efficiencies in your day-to-day activities and your work for clients, and can guide others on how to do the same.
• Data Literacy: You are comfortable working with and extracting insights from data sets using Excel/Google Sheets, LLMs like Gemini and Claude, as well as other tools.
• Executive-Level Communication Skills: You can clearly explain SEO/AEO concepts and strategic recommendations to internal and external teams, senior leadership, and executive sponsors, in both verbal and written formats.
• Continuous Learner Mentality: The search landscape changes weekly. You actively follow industry blogs and are considered a go-to resource on how AI and LLMs are shifting the future of SEO.
• Organization, Ownership & Leadership: You have a track record of managing your own book of strategic accounts across multiple projects, take pride in meeting deadlines and delivering clean, accurate work, and are comfortable mentoring or informally guiding less experienced team members.

Skills

• Deep SEO/AEO Expertise
• Technical Fluency
• Results-Driven, Strategic Mindset
• AI Proficiency
• Data Literacy
• Executive-Level Communication Skills
• Continuous Learner Mentality
• Organization, Ownership & Leadership

Benefits

Conductor is committed to providing a competitive benefits package, which may include:

• Health insurance options
• Flexible spending accounts
• Retirement savings plans
• Employee assistance programs
• Professional development opportunities
• Work-life balance initiatives

Pay

The NYC base salary range for this role is currently $105,000 - $120,000 per year. Placement within that range will be dependent on experience.

Schedule

This role operates on a 90/10 split.

Company Information

Conductor is the leading enterprise AEO platform. Today’s top enterprise brands use Conductor to grow authority and visibility in both AI and traditional search engines. From tracking visibility in LLMs to real-time monitoring of technical site health and scaled AI content creation, Conductor provides a single source of truth that fuels digital growth—all from one platform. Conductor is a mission-driven company with a commitment to innovation, customer success, and culture. For Conductor, success is improving the lives of everyone in our orbit—our customers, our customers' customers, our employee-owners, and our communities.