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Senior Specialist, SEO/AEO (Contract)
BounteousUnited States, United StatesRemotecontractVerifiedPosted 12 Mar 2026
About the role
Bounteous is a premier end-to-end digital transformation consultancy dedicated to partnering with ambitious brands to create digital solutions for today’s complex challenges and tomorrow’s opportunities. With uncompromising standards for technical and domain expertise, we deliver innovative and strategic solutions in Strategy, Analytics, Digital Engineering, Cloud, Data & AI, Experience Design, and Marketing.
Our Co-Innovation methodology is a unique engagement model designed to align interests and accelerate value creation. Our clients worldwide benefit from the skills and expertise of over 4,000+ expert team members across the Americas, APAC, and EMEA. By partnering with leading technology providers, we craft transformative digital experiences that enhance customer engagement and drive business success.
We are seeking a Senior SEO & AEO to lead holistic search strategy across our client portfolio. This individual will drive performance across traditional SEO, AEO, and AI-powered search experiences. The ideal candidate understands how search has evolved beyond rankings- into entities, AI Overviews, generative search, and full-SERP ownership, and can translate that evolution into business growth.
This contractor will work cross-functionally with internal teams and client stakeholders to develop and execute advanced search strategies that drive visibility, authority, and measurable ROI.
Information Security Responsibilities
- Promote and enforce awareness of key information security practices, including acceptable use of information assets, malware protection, and password security protocols
- Identify, assess, and report security risks, focusing on how these risks impact the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets
- Understand and evaluate how data is stored, processed, or transmitted, ensuring compliance with data privacy and protection standards (GDPR, CCPA, etc.)
- Ensure data protection measures are integrated throughout the information lifecycle to safeguard sensitive information
Roles & Responsibilities
- Lead holistic search strategy development including traditional SEO, AEO, and AI search optimization to drive full-funnel growth.
- Develop strategies to capture and optimize for AI Overviews, Featured Snippets, People Also Ask, zero-click search experiences, and conversational queries.
- Drive entity-based optimization strategies to strengthen brand authority and knowledge graph presence.
- Partner with content and digital teams to align SEO strategy with E-E-A-T best practices.
- Optimize content and technical implementations for AI-driven search environments including generative search engines and large language model (LLM) discovery platforms.
- Develop structured data and schema strategies to enhance visibility in rich results, AI summaries, and enhanced SERP features.
- Monitor evolving search engine algorithms and AI search trends, proactively adjusting strategy to maintain competitive advantage.
- Establish processes for measuring AI search visibility and zero-click performance impact.
- Perform and present comprehensive technical, content, competitive, local, and app SEO audits.
- Develop SEO functional specifications for technical enhancements, partnering with developers to implement, QA, and UAT updates.
- Conduct advanced keyword, topic cluster, and entity research to inform scalable content strategies.
- Identify opportunities for content optimization, consolidation, pruning, and authority building.
- Collaborate closely with paid search, analytics, UX, product, and development teams to drive integrated search performance.
- Present insights and recommendations to internal and client stakeholders, translating complex SEO and AI-search concepts into business-focused outcomes.
- Align search strategies with broader omnichannel marketing and digital transformation initiatives.
As the Senior SEO & AEO Specialist, you will lead strategic search initiatives across enterprise client accounts, driving business growth and client success as a key member of our search practice.
You will own strategy development, execution oversight, and performance measurement across traditional SEO and AI-driven search ecosystems.
Key Responsibilities
Search & AEO Strategy Leadership
AI & Emerging Search Optimization
Technical & Content SEO Execution
Cross-Functional & Client Collaboration
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