Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) Specialist

Our client is a digital growth and SEO-focused organization helping brands succeed across modern search and discovery platforms. The Answer Engine Optimization Specialist role focuses on optimizing content for AI-powered search, answer engines, and zero-click environments. This position blends SEO, content strategy, and AI research to ensure brand content is structured, trustworthy, and discoverable across emerging answer-driven search experiences.

Our client is seeking an Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) Specialist to support how brands and clients appear across modern, answer-driven search environments. This role goes beyond traditional SEO and focuses on optimizing content for AI-powered search tools, large language models, featured snippets, and conversational search interfaces. You will collaborate closely with SEO, content, and growth teams to improve how content is interpreted, summarized, and surfaced by AI systems.

Responsibilities:
- Develop and execute AEO strategies for AI-driven and answer-first search environments
- Optimize content for visibility in LLM-powered tools, featured answers, and zero-click results
- Rewrite and structure content to improve clarity, accuracy, and answerability
- Research how AI models surface, summarize, and cite content across platforms
- Support structured data, schema implementation, and entity optimization efforts
- Define success metrics, track citations and answer inclusion, and document experiments

Requirements:
- 2 to 5+ years of experience in SEO, content strategy, or search-focused growth roles
- Strong understanding of how search engines and AI systems consume and rank content
- Excellent written communication skills with a focus on clarity and precision
- Analytical mindset with comfort testing, measuring, and iterating
- Ability to work effectively in fast-changing, experimental environments
- Familiarity with structured data, AI tools, or editorial SEO is an advantage

Benefits:
- Fully remote working arrangement
- USD-based bi-monthly compensation
- Paid time off and holiday observance from day one
- Opportunity to work at the forefront of AI-driven search innovation

This role offers the chance to help define a new search discipline while making a measurable impact in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.