SEO & AEO Lead

About the Company

OpenArt is one of the fastest-growing AI creative platforms, helping millions of people create images, videos, stories, ads, and other creative content with AI. The company was selected as one of just five companies in the 2026 Disney Accelerator and recognized by Notable Capital's Prosumer AI 40 as one of the 40 most innovative AI-native companies. OpenArt was built for people who have a vision but not a studio, and creators who have a story but not an entire production team.

About the Role

OpenArt is hiring an SEO & AEO Lead to run the company's SEO team and own how they get found — in Google and in AI assistants. This is a player-coach role based in San Carlos, CA, where roughly half your time will be leading a small, distributed team and half hands-on in the work. The ideal candidate ships content at scale with AI and can teach the team to work the same way, moving OpenArt's hardest category head terms in AI image and video into the top results across organic search and AI discovery channels.

Responsibilities

• Own organic strategy and growth end-to-end across Google and AI assistants: cluster strategy, page production, technical health, links, and connecting SEO performance to revenue and paid subscriber growth
• Move hardest category head terms in AI image and video into top results, and honestly assess which need better content versus authority that must be built
• Own measurement and make strategic calls on where to stop investing, including in clusters you originally championed
• Run the SEO team day-to-day, set the bar for briefs and templates, and own output quality — taking ownership if pages ship late or quality slips
• Coach the team on AEO and working with AI, training them on citation strategy and AI-assisted content pipelines
• Ship the hardest content clusters yourself, from keyword research to live pages, setting the standard through hands-on work
• Build a production system enabling a small team to publish hundreds of pages monthly with AI: develop prompts, templates, review criteria, and defensible quality standards
• Own how OpenArt appears in AI assistants and AI Overviews, define trackable metrics, and earn citations through comparison pages, structured Q&A, schema, original on-site data, and third-party coverage
• Direct link acquisition by picking target pages, setting anchor strategy, deciding what's worth paying for, and reviewing link building work
• Keep the technical foundation sound as publishing scales, working directly with engineering to write actionable tickets and defend SEO priority against competing product work

Requirements

• 5–10 years of SEO experience, including time owning organic growth for a site at real scale
• Proven experience leading people with clear examples of work that improved because of your management
• Genuinely hands-on approach: you run your own audits, pull your own data, and write your own briefs
• Experience shipping content with AI at volume with a clear system for maintaining quality
• AI-native workflow where LLMs and agents are part of your daily work, including wiring up tools to pull your own data
• Strong technical SEO fundamentals plus real AEO experience or a serious point of view on how AEO should work
• Strong data fluency — comfortable with SQL or a BI tool to answer your own questions and skeptical enough to notice when a number looks wrong
• Based in the Bay Area, or willing to relocate

Nice to Have

• Consumer or content-heavy platform experience
• Programmatic page generation at scale
• Experience managing across time zones
• Digital PR and link-building experience for high-difficulty head terms
• International SEO experience

OpenArt is a fast-growing AI creative platform helping millions of people create images, videos, stories, ads, and other creative content with AI. The company was selected for the 2026 Disney Accelerator and recognized as one of the 40 most innovative AI-native companies.