Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Search Atlas is a rapidly growing SEO software company and full-service digital agency trusted by Fortune 500 companies and Silicon Valley startups. They are seeking a Director of AI Search and SEO to own the AI search product vertical, drive the product roadmap, and lead a team while ensuring the development of autonomous systems for SEO tasks.
Responsibilities
- Own the AI search vertical
- Define and evolve our methodology for AI visibility: entity SEO, knowledge graph optimization, structured data, semantic search, citation likelihood
- Build the research engine: continuous data collection, hypothesis testing, and scoring systems that turn "why does ChatGPT recommend them and not us?" into measurable, repeatable answers with stated confidence levels
- Drive the AI search product roadmap with our engineering and product teams — you bring the domain truth, the frameworks, and working prototypes
- Design agent fleets that complete SEO work end-to-end: research, audits, content, internal linking, competitive intel, reporting — from data pull to deployed change
- Move work into pipelines: changes open merge requests, MRs are graded automatically, failures block, humans review in staging, releases roll out safely (including canary). If you've never put marketing automation through CI/CD, expect to learn fast here
- Maintain the shared library of agents, skills, MCP integrations, and slash commands the whole team runs on — and retire anything that requires a human to babysit it
- Operate at our scale: a publisher network of 56,000+ sites, 375M+ connected pages we can deploy fixes to in real time, ~200,000 managed Google Business Profiles, and $1.8B+ of ad spend under management. Your systems need to be safe at that scale: rollbacks, audit trails, eval gates
- Join enterprise client calls with Customer Success; explain to C-suite executives what agentic AI actually changes about search — in plain language
- Manage and mentor a team of 3–5+ SEOs, and raise their ceiling: train them to design and supervise agents, not paste prompts
- Publish internal and external thought leadership; get new approaches into client work in days, not quarters
Skills
- Deep AI search and SEO domain expertise. You understand how LLMs retrieve, rank, and cite — Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini. You've run real experiments, not read newsletters
- Agentic engineering ability, at enterprise grade. Not 'I use Claude Code daily.' You design autonomous systems: fleets of agents, not chat loops; work that ships through CI/CD with auto-graded merge requests, staging environments, and controlled releases — not scripts you babysit on your laptop
- Product judgment. In agentic work, throughput is cheap. What matters is the quality of your judgment: how clearly you define the problem, how you design evals and guardrails, and how you grade systems you didn't watch being built
- Expert-level technical SEO: crawling, indexation, Core Web Vitals, structured data, log file analysis — proven at enterprise scale (six-figure-page sites and up)
- A track record in AI search specifically: measurable AI Overview / LLM citation outcomes you can walk through and defend
- Claude Code at depth: subagents, MCP servers, hooks, slash commands, custom skills, headless mode, and the Agent SDK — in production, not in demos
- Real autonomous systems you've shipped: multi-step, tool-using agents that completed work end-to-end without supervision. You should be able to show one that ran for days
- Software engineering fundamentals: Git workflows, CI/CD, testing and eval design. You can ship Python or JavaScript with agentic tooling and review what your agents wrote
- Analytics depth: GSC API, GA4, BigQuery; reporting that builds and sends itself
- Experience managing SEO teams of 3–5+, and presence in front of executive stakeholders
Benefits
- Fully covered health, vision, and dental insurance
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid parental leave
- Personal development budget
- Lasik eye surgery benefit
- Pet health insurance
- 401k plan
Company Overview
Search Atlas is an AI SEO software tool for site owners, digital marketers, and SEO professionals. It was founded in undefined, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://searchatlas.com.