Founding AI SEO Strategist

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TYPE OF WORK

Any

SALARY

2000/month

HOURS PER WEEK

40

DATE UPDATED

Jul 10, 2026

JOB OVERVIEW

Most SEOs are still doing by hand what should have been automated a year ago. Writing one page at a time. Checking rankings one at a time. Responding to reviews one at a time. Meanwhile the game moved. AI can now do the grunt work of ten people, and a real operator uses that to bury the competition instead of keeping busy.

I'm hiring the person who already gets this.

I run these campaigns myself, so I know exactly what "good" looks like, and I'm going to be blunt about who I want. I want someone who builds the machine, not someone who does the reps. Someone who wires up AI to research, generate, publish, index, monitor, and report, then spends the time it frees up on the strategy that actually wins the map pack. Someone who's fluent in white hat, grey hat, and black hat, and cares about exactly one scoreboard: did the client end up dominating their local market or not.

If that's you, keep reading. If it's not, no hard feelings.

## Who we are

We're an established SEO agency helping local businesses rank at the top of Google. Mostly US home-service contractors (roofing, HVAC, cleaning, window cleaning), plus a handful of e-commerce brands. US-based, US clients. We already have the structure: documented SOPs, proven processes, and results that keep clients coming back. Every role here points at the same target, local domination, and this seat is the one that gets there with leverage instead of hours.

## The role

This is our founding AI SEO strategist seat. Your job is to take everything we do to rank and defend local clients and make it faster, bigger, and smarter using AI and automation. You're the first dedicated AI hire stepping into a machine that already works, not a mess you have to clean up. The systems produce. You make them produce at a scale a manual operator can't touch, and you own the shift to AI search before our clients even know it's happening.

I want someone who automates the boring parts, builds pipelines that run themselves, and frees us both up for the strategy that moves rankings. This is a long-term seat. I want someone I can grow with for years.

## What you'll own

- **Automating the grunt work.** You build pipelines that handle research, content generation, internal linking, publishing, indexing, monitoring, and reporting so nobody on the team does the same manual task twice. Comfortable with Claude and Claude Code, no-code tools like ---------- and n8n, scraping, and wiring up APIs. If a process can run itself, you build it once instead of grinding it forever.
- **Programmatic local pages at scale.** City-by-service and service-area landing pages generated en masse, but with real per-page on-page optimization (title, H1, meta, schema, genuinely useful content), not thin URL spam that gets a client hit with a spam action. You know the difference, and you know why the second one gets someone deindexed.
- **GEO and AI search.** Getting clients cited and recommended across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Grok. You understand that AI citation is decoupled from ranking (roughly a third of LLM-cited pages have zero organic presence), that programmatic architecture plus FAQ schema can trigger citations faster than classic SEO, that entity density and clear brand-proof content are what get you pulled into answers, and that Reddit quietly shapes what these models say about a brand.
- **LLM citation auditing.** Tracking the exact prompts our clients need to win, seeing which brands get cited and why, mining the citation sources behind competitors' answers, and matching our content format to what actually gets cited (if every cited source is a listicle, we ship a listicle). Tools like Arvow, Semrush AI Visibility, and Ahrefs Brand Radar, or a pipeline you build yourself.
- **AI content with QA discipline.** You use AI to produce volume, but you're not a slop merchant. You anchor generation to briefs, you verify term and entity coverage instead of trusting a single optimization score, and you keep a human eye on brand and taste. Fast and good, not fast and garbage.
- **AI-assisted operations.** Review response drafting, rank and citation monitoring, technical-issue detection, competitor tracking, client reporting. If it's repetitive, you're looking for the automation.
- **Supporting the core local machine.** GBP optimization, review systems, citations, and the map-pack fundamentals still matter, and you understand them well enough to automate them intelligently rather than blindly.
- **Documentation.** Every pipeline and prompt you build becomes an SOP the next hire can run.

## Who you are

- **Native-level English.** You'll talk to me constantly and sometimes to clients. Non-negotiable.
- **An over-communicator.** This is the one I care about most. I want too many updates, not too few. When you build something that changes how we work, I want to hear about it.
- **A builder with no ego.** You hit a wall, you research it, you build your way out, then you tell me what you learned and hand me the tool. You'd rather ship an automation than complain about the manual task.
- **Fluent across the whole spectrum.** White hat, grey hat, and enough understanding of black hat to know exactly where the line is and why we don't drag client assets across it. You know the scaled tactics people use to game rankings and citations, and you know precisely which ones are worth it and which ones torch a real client's business. Judgment, not recklessness.
- **Obsessed with results.** Automation is a means, not the point. The point is the client owning their local market. If a beautiful pipeline isn't moving rankings, you kill it.
- **Always sharpening.** This part of the field changes monthly. The day you stop testing new models, tools, and tactics is the day you stop being useful here.

## What you've actually done

- **Built real SEO automations**, not just used a SaaS. You can show me a pipeline you wired together (content, publishing, monitoring, reporting, whatever) and explain what it saved and what broke along the way.
- **Ranked multiple local businesses** into the map pack and held them there. Local is our bread and butter. You knew the lever, you pulled it, the position moved.
- **Gotten a brand cited in an LLM**, or at minimum audited why a competitor gets cited and you don't, and had a plan to close the gap.
- **Tested your own strategies on your own properties.** White hat, grey hat, whatever taught you something. I want someone who's broken things and understood why, then rebuilt them smarter. Cookie-cutter operators need not apply.
- **Shipped fast with AI.** Spinning up sites, pages, and tools quickly using AI is second nature, not a stretch.
- **Expert in the core tools:** Semrush or Ahrefs, GSC, GA4, plus AI-visibility trackers. Bonus for BrightLocal, an indexer, and any automation stack.
- **Worked on a team before.** You know how to hand off, document, and collaborate.

## What I offer

- **Growth that's real.** As we add clients, the role grows and your pay grows with it. $2,000/mo to start, scaling toward $3,000+ as you take on more ownership, and higher over time as we grow together.
- **A real path to managing.** You're the founding AI hire. As the team grows, the right person becomes the one who runs it.
- **Real ownership.** No bureaucracy, no ten layers of approval. You own this here and you'll feel it.

## Logistics

- **Full-time, remote.**
- **Overlap with US business hours.** I need at least 4 hours of daily overlap with US Eastern Time so we can collaborate in real time. Tell me your timezone and normal working hours.
- Start date: as soon as we find the right person.

## How to apply

Send me the following, and yes, I read every single one:

1. Your favorite vegetable and why. Put this at the very top of your application so I know you read the whole post. No vegetable, no reply.
2. Your name and age
3. What motivates you, be brutally honest. "Money" is a fine answer if it's the true one. I trust honest people more than polished ones.
4. Your SEO experience, and specifically how you use AI in it
5. The coolest thing you've ever automated or built with AI for SEO
6. One technical answer: a client ranks number one organically for their main service but never gets cited when someone asks ChatGPT for the best provider in their city. What do you check first, and what do you change?

Apply here: ----------

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