AEO & SEO Specialist

AEO + SEO Specialist — Organic & AI-Search Growth

Pune, India · Full-time (hybrid/remote negotiable)

The role

Buyers increasingly find products by asking ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google's AI Overviews — not just by typing keywords. We're hiring one person to own how we get discovered in both worlds: classic organic search (SEO) and AI answer engines (AEO/GEO). Your mandate is simple: when our future customers ask a search engine or an AI assistant for a solution in our category, we are the answer.

You will own this function end to end — strategy, execution, and measurement — reporting directly to the founder.

What you will own

• AEO/GEO strategy. Getting cited and recommended inside AI-generated answers: entity building, structured data, llms.txt, source-of-truth content that LLMs retrieve and quote, digital PR that earns mentions on the sources AI engines trust, and tracking share-of-voice across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, and AI Overviews.
• Technical SEO. Site architecture, crawlability, indexation, Core Web Vitals, schema markup (Organization, Product, FAQ, HowTo), international targeting (India, US, UK), and log-file-level diagnosis when rankings misbehave.
• Content engine. Keyword and question research (classic + conversational queries), content briefs and calendar, programmatic SEO where it fits, and comparison/alternative pages that win high-intent commercial queries in a competitive category.
• Authority building. Backlink and digital-PR strategy, third-party reviews and directories (G2, Capterra, etc.), Wikipedia/Wikidata-grade entity presence — the citation graph AI engines lean on.
• Measurement. Organic pipeline attribution, AI-referral tracking, ranking and citation dashboards, and monthly reporting that ties this work to signups and revenue — not just traffic.

Hard requirements — verifiable, and we verify

• 4+ years in SEO with at least 1 year of hands-on AEO/GEO work — you can show a brand you made appear in AI-engine answers and explain the specific interventions that did it.
• You have grown a site's organic traffic or organic-sourced revenue by a number you can state from memory, with before/after, timeframe, and what specifically you changed.
• Deep technical SEO: you can read crawl logs, debug an indexation drop, and implement schema yourself — not just file tickets for developers.
• Proven B2B SaaS experience: you understand long sales cycles, high-intent commercial keywords, and how comparison pages convert.
• Fluent with the toolchain: GSC, GA4, Ahrefs/Semrush, Screaming Frog, at least one AI-visibility tracker (Profound, Peec, Otterly, or a self-built one — self-built is a plus).
• Excellent written English — you will edit and often write the content yourself at the start.

What we are NOT looking for

• Agency profiles who "managed" SEO through freelancers and dashboards without hands-on execution.
• Traffic-vanity operators. We measure signups and pipeline, not sessions.
• Anyone whose AEO knowledge is a LinkedIn carousel. You must have actually moved AI-answer visibility for a real brand.