SEO / AEO Specialist

Project overview

Job Title: SEO / AEO Specialist Start Date: Ready to interview and hire Duration: Freelance-to-Hire Location: Fully Remote Hours: 40 hours/week Overview: Our leading food distributor client is seeking an SEO / AEO Marketing Specialist to join their team on a freelance-to-hire basis. This fully remote opportunity is ideal for a marketer who is passionate about both traditional search optimization and the evolving world of AI-powered search.

You'll play a key role in driving organic growth, increasing search visibility, shaping content strategy, and improving discoverability across search engines and answer platforms.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute SEO and AEO strategies to increase organic traffic, rankings, and lead generation.
• Conduct keyword research, competitive analysis, search intent research, and content optimization.
• Improve visibility across platforms such as Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity, Gemini, and voice search.
• Build and maintain content optimization roadmaps and identify new content opportunities based on customer behavior and search trends.
• Establish and reinforce SEO/AEO standards and best practices across content creation and publishing workflows.
• Partner with content and web teams to implement technical SEO improvements, schema markup, and content optimization initiatives.
• Monitor and report on key performance metrics, including traffic, rankings, conversions, AI citations, and search visibility.
• Provide strategic recommendations and actionable insights to improve search performance and business outcomes.
• Collaborate with marketing, product, analytics, and IT teams to execute and prioritize optimization efforts.

Requirements

• 5-7 years of experience in SEO, digital marketing, content marketing, or web optimization.
• Strong understanding of technical SEO, content SEO, keyword strategy, and search intent.
• Experience with SEO tools such as SEMrush, Screaming Frog, Search Atlas, or similar platforms.
• Proficiency with Google Analytics, Google Search Console, Adobe Analytics, and/or Looker Studio.
• Strong analytical, communication, and project management skills.
• Ability to translate data into strategic recommendations and measurable results.
• Experience with Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) and AI search optimization.
• Knowledge of schema markup, entity optimization, and structured content frameworks.
• Experience supporting enterprise websites. In this position, you may have access to client or customer systems, confidential and/or proprietary information or data. Benefits

Project details

• Start: flexible
• Duration: Freelance-to-Hire
• Remote: remote
• Location: United States, US