Manager / Senior Manager, SEO and AEO
About us
BrightSense is building cutting-edge technology for the AI age. Its first product is Branly, an AI visibility platform. How people discover brands has changed. More and more, they ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude and Google’s AI answers what to buy, and those answers name only a handful of brands.
Branly shows a brand how often it appears in those answers, how it is described and which sources the engines rely on. Then it turns every gap into a specific fix the brand can act on.
Three things shape how we work.
Grounded in research
AI search changes every week. We study how each engine finds, trusts and cites its sources, and we keep our methods in step with what the engines do today.
Signal over noise
We start from the real questions buyers ask, in their own words. We run them repeatedly across every major engine and read the answers over time, so what we show is a pattern, not a one-off.
Customer first
Our customers sit at the centre of everything we build. We learn their category, competitors and goals, then stay alongside them until the work shows up as growth.
About the role
We’re hiring a Manager or Senior Manager, SEO and AEO, to own how Branly is found in Google and in AI answers.
You’ll run the programme end to end, hands on: the strategy, the technical foundations, the content roadmap with our content team, and the numbers that show what is working. You’ll also have Branly itself to work with, so you can see, prompt by prompt, how AI engines treat our site. What you learn won’t stay with our website. It will shape what Branly tells marketers about winning in AI search.
Key responsibilities
SEO and AEO strategy
Own Branly’s search programme end to end: technical SEO, on-page optimisation, content, internal linking and authority building.
Technical SEO
Lead site architecture, structured data and schema, Core Web Vitals, and crawl and indexing health. Guide our engineers on implementation and measure the impact of each change.
AI search visibility
Build Branly’s AEO strategy: answer-first content, entity and semantic reinforcement, and schema that helps engines read and cite us, to earn a place in Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude.
Ready for AI crawlers
Keep branly.ai readable for the way AI crawlers work today: crawler access, llms.txt, plain-markdown pages built for LLMs, and the formats that come next.
Research and mapping
Run keyword research, entity mapping and intent analysis across both search queries and AI prompts. Size the opportunity, and build the keyword and content maps that drive the roadmap.
Authority and citations
Find the sources Google and AI engines trust in our category, and earn Branly a place in them through links, mentions, listings and partnerships.
Performance tracking
Track classic metrics (rankings, clicks, impressions) alongside AI search metrics (citation frequency, share of voice, AI referral traffic). Spot trends early and recommend what to do next.
Reporting and attribution
Build dashboards and reports that tell a clear story. Work with engineering on tracking so organic and AI search tie back to sign-ups, demo requests and pipeline.
AI-powered workflows
Evaluate and roll out AI tools, including Claude Code and Codex, to scale research, audits and content production.
Cross-functional partnership
Work closely with our content strategist, engineering, sales and product. Feed what you learn back into Branly as one of its most expert users.
Who you are
- 2 to 5 years of hands-on SEO, with clear ownership of organic traffic, rankings and pipeline. We’ll set the level, Manager or Senior Manager, by your experience.
- Deep technical SEO: site architecture, structured data, Core Web Vitals, crawl efficiency and indexing. You can guide developers through implementation and measure the result.
- Hands-on AEO experience. You’ve built a strategy for AI answer engines and measured it through citations, share of brand mentions and AI referral traffic.
- A hands-on individual contributor who owns a programme end to end and works with content and engineering to ship it.
- Strong keyword and content instincts: keyword research, intent analysis and content gap analysis that shape an editorial roadmap.
- You build dashboards and performance stories that people act on, and you’re comfortable owning tracking and attribution.
- At home with AI tools in SEO and content workflows, including Claude Code or Codex.
- A clear communicator who works well across content, engineering, product and sales.
Bonus points
- Experience in B2B SaaS, vertical SaaS or multi-location businesses.
- Hands-on with AI visibility or citation-tracking tools.
- International or multi-region SEO experience.
- Experience with reporting platforms such as Looker, Looker Studio or Sigma.
What it’s like working with us
Build in one of marketing’s most in-demand categories
Every brand now wants to know how AI talks about it. You’ll help shape the company leading that conversation, at the moment it matters most.
High ownership, high visibility
You’ll work side by side with the founders. Your calls ship fast, and everyone sees what they move.
A strategic seat at the table
You’ll help shape how Branly goes to market, and what it tells its customers about search.
Learn from founders who’ve scaled before
You’ll work closely with a team that has led and grown operations across industries, and you’ll pick up how it’s done.
Competitive pay and real equity
A competitive salary and meaningful equity, so you share in what you help build.
Grow as fast as we do
Your scope grows with Branly. Prove the programme works, and this role becomes the team you lead.
Interested? Email us your details and your resume.
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