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AI Search Director – AEO/GEO
Fantasy
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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Lead
Tech Stack
Graphite
About the role
- Enterprise Strategy & Thought Leadership: Shape the future of AEO at an enterprise scale and make Fantasy the go-to partner in the space.
- - Leading engagements end‑to‑end: discovery, benchmarking, roadmap, and iterative execution; presenting to senior stakeholders and securing buy‑in.
- - Defining KPIs and reporting: visibility/coverage, citation accuracy, sentiment trends, content freshness, time‑to‑insight, and ROI; guiding internal teams in building dashboards and narratives.
- - Building our center of excellence: documenting frameworks (intent graphs, IA for AI), playbooks, templates, and training modules; mentoring internal team.
- - Representing Fantasy as a strategic voice in the AEO space—helping define what best-in-class looks like.
- Executional Excellence & Optimization: Solve for today while building toward what’s next.
- - Diagnosing and improving answer engine performance: visibility, citations, content accuracy, and entity authority; identify opportunity zones and quick wins; benchmark competitors.
- - Translate insights into workflows: content engineering, entity/knowledge graph improvements, and technical remediation plans (delivered via partners).Build/refine topic configurations and QFN-style query sets, prioritizing non‑branded queries for category insights and branded terms for sentiment analysis.
- - Identify opportunity zones and quick wins for clients—drive impact early and often.
- Operational Enablement & Ecosystem Orchestration: Build the machine that builds the future—internally and across client ecosystems.
- - Operating platform‑agnostic; evaluating and running leading tools like Profound, AirOps, Graphite and similar systems; codifying tool selection principles.
- - Standing up pods and rhythms; defining roles, setting cadence, sustaining momentum; delivering QBRs and executive-ready materials.
- - Coordinating partners; ensuring alignment between agencies, platforms, and internal teams for measurable implementation.
Requirements
- 8–12+ years in SEO with a proven pivot into AEO/GEO/AI Search; deep experience with intent modeling, entity optimization, and answer engine behaviors.
- Track record leading enterprise programs across multiple LOBs; adept at executive stakeholder management and monthly subscription/retainer models.
- Hands‑on practitioner who can turn data into actionable recommendations within days; deliver early wins while building durable systems
- Platform/operator mindset: experience evaluating and integrating tools like Profound/AirOps/Graphite (or equivalents) and synthesizing outputs into strategy.
- Enablement leader: has built cohort trainings, role definitions, templates, and operating cadences that leave clients more self‑sufficient.
- Executive communication: concise storytelling, strong decks, and the ability to simplify complexity and drive decisions.
- Experience with LLM-centric content engineering: structured content, schema, knowledge graphs, and prompt‑safe content patterns.
- Familiarity with technical remediation pathways and collaboration with dev teams.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Professional development
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
SEOAEOGEOAI Searchintent modelingentity optimizationanswer engine behaviorscontent engineeringknowledge graphstechnical remediation
Soft skills
executive stakeholder managementdata-driven decision makingconcise storytellingsimplifying complexitymentoringbuilding training modulesdefining rolessustaining momentumcoordinating partnersdelivering presentations
