AI Search and Discovery Lead

Modern Treasury

SEO & AI Search Discovery Lead defining content strategy and optimizing discoverability for payment infrastructure company. Partnering with design engineers to enhance technical SEO and analytics.

Posted 6/3/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $120,000 - $160,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Ruby on Rails

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own AEO strategy across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews
Map and optimize Modern Treasury's presence across the full LLM-ingested ecosystem (HackerNews, Reddit, G2, TrustRadius, YouTube etc.) to improve AI-driven discoverability and citation weight
Define and own the topic cluster and authority map for Modern Treasury's core categories: payment orchestration, PSP architecture, ACH and RTP infrastructure, stablecoin rails, ledger systems, reconciliation, embedded payments, sub-account systems, multi-rail money movement
Build evaluation content for technical and operational buyers, build vs. buy frameworks, comparison pages, architecture guides, implementation patterns
Partner with founders, executives, and engineering SMEs to translate product and market shifts into authoritative content
Own SEO and AEO performance analytics, connecting organic performance to pipeline and revenue
Partner with a design engineer on technical SEO standards, schema, and structured data. You set the standard, they own execution.

Requirements

What you’ll need

6 to 8 years in SEO, content strategy, or organic growth, ideally at modern B2B SaaS, fintech, infrastructure, API, or developer-tool companies
Proven track record growing qualified organic traffic and pipeline through content strategy, not just technical fixes
Strong perspective on how search is evolving in the AI era, with hands-on experience or active experimentation in AEO
Highly analytical, comfortable working in large datasets to identify trends, diagnose performance shifts, and quantify opportunity
Hands-on experience with enterprise SEO tools such as Ahrefs, Profound, or similar
Strong understanding of technical buyer journeys, including how developers, payment ops, and finance buyers evaluate infrastructure
Ability to write. The senior IC bar at Modern Treasury includes shipping content, not just briefing it.

Benefits

Comp & perks

generous benefits
company equity

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Hard Skills & Tools

SEOcontent strategyorganic growthAEOtechnical SEOdata analysiscontent creationpayment orchestrationAPIfintech

Soft Skills

analyticalcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingcreativityperspective on search evolutionability to writepartnering with stakeholderstranslating product shiftsevaluating buyer journeys