Principal Growth Manager – SEO, AEO

Achieve

Lead SEO/AEO strategy for Achieve, a fintech firm, enhancing organic growth and visibility. Drive research and optimization across search engines and AI platforms to meet revenue targets.

Posted 6/24/2026full-timeRemote • Dallas • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $140,000 - $200,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the overarching organic discovery strategy to ensure our domains rank for brand, category, and competitor keywords across traditional SERPs and large language model platforms.
Develop actionable plans that continually ramps our brand/domain authority and relevance to ensure high organic visibility and growth rate relative to competition.
Conduct ongoing analysis of top-ranking content and LLM-generated citations in our category and across algorithms to identify trends, white space, and sentiment.
Stay ahead of how search engines and AI models find information. Optimize site structures, schema, and API feeds to ensure maximum legibility for search and LLM web-crawlers.
Effectively partner our technical team to ensure consistently high user experience as measured by Core Web Vitals, EEAT.
Turn strategic ideas into written, actionable plans and effectively partner in-house teams to deliver with quality on a high cadence.
Analyze winning formulas per platform and contribute strategies to win top placements on high-intent social platforms (YouTube, TikTok, Reddit).

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of SEO/Organic Growth experience in highly competitive, high-volume markets, with a proven focus on AEO/AI optimization over recent years.
Proven success consistently driving double digit lead growth and digital brand authority via organic channels.
Strong technical understanding of search algorithms, Knowledge Graphs, Core Web Vitals optimization, and scraping signals across major search and LLM platforms.
Exceptional cross-functional executor capable of driving engineering and content pipelines to deliver rapid results.
Analytical mindset with experience leveraging internal BI tools alongside third-party SEO and emerging AI attribution software.
Strong business acumen with the ability to translate complex search technicalities into clear business impact for executive audiences.
Solid executive presentation skills.
Nice to Have: Social Search experience (optimizing for discovery on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram).

Benefits

Comp & perks

401 (k) with employer match
Medical, dental, and vision with HSA and FSA options
Competitive vacation and sick time off, as well as dedicated volunteer days
Access to wellness support through Employee Assistance Program, physical and mental health wellness programs
Pet care discounts for your furry family members
Financial support in times of hardship with our Achieve Care Fund
A safe place to connect and a commitment to diversity and inclusion through our six employee resource groups

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Hard Skills & Tools

SEOAEO optimizationAI optimizationsearch algorithmsKnowledge GraphsCore Web Vitals optimizationscraping signalsorganic growthdigital brand authoritycontent analysis

Soft Skills

cross-functional executionanalytical mindsetbusiness acumenexecutive presentation skillsstrategic planningcollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingadaptabilityleadership