SEO GEO AI Search Visibility Specialist

About the company

NICK Digital Agency (NDA) is a boutique digital agency focused on B2B clients e-commerce and digital startups in the DACH market. We build demand generation and performance systems not one-off campaigns. We operate with a lean remote team and a direct client model: no account managers in between no bureaucracy. We are in active growth scaling our delivery capacity alongside an expanding client portfolio.

About the role

We are looking for an SEO & AI Search Visibility Specialist to own the technical and analytical delivery of our AI Visibility Audit product the diagnostic that shows clients how their brand performs in ChatGPT Perplexity Gemini Claude and Google AI Overviews and what to do about it.

The DACH market in 2026 treats GEO/AEO as a must-have but mature providers with a real methodology are scarce. This role is for someone who has actually run citation tracking in production not someone who added GEO to their title last year.

You will work directly with the founding team and clients. No intermediary layers. 34 concurrent audits at different stages is the expected pace.

Key responsibilities

• Run citation testing across ChatGPT Perplexity Gemini Claude and Google AI Overviews 4060 queries 5 platforms per audit
• Branded vs. non-branded query testing; competitor visibility benchmarking (35 competitors per audit)
• Entity recognition checks: Wikipedia Wikidata knowledge graph Crunchbase G2
• Technical AI-readiness audit: schema markup structured data FAQ blocks for AI crawlers content structure for passage-level retrieval
• Content gap analysis which intent categories competitors own which are still open
• Build a 90-day GEO/AEO roadmap with prioritization and effort estimates per client
• Cover the SEO layer within the Digital Infrastructure component of the Revenue Architecture Diagnostic
• Support the Lead Consultant during AI Visibility final client presentations

Requirements

• 35 years in SEO hands-on GEO/AEO experience in (citation tracking AI visibility monitoring in production)
• Advanced technical SEO: Screaming Frog Google Search Console Ahrefs or Semrush
• and structured data own implementation not just coordination with developers
• Knows and AI crawler directives
• Understands passage-level optimization query fan-out and entity recognition as real practices
• Can produce analytical technical visualizations: citation heatmaps gap maps (not just checklists)
• English C1
• Ready to work as a contractor from day one (no full-time from the start)
• Can share real audit examples (anonymized / blurred body is fine)

Nice to have

• Experience with AI visibility tooling: Profound Otterly Conductor AEO AthenaHQ
• German B1 critical for client work with DACH SMB clients
• B2B / SaaS experience in DACH markets
• Basic Python or JavaScript for automating citation testing
• Multilingual SEO expertise: DE / AT / CH markets
• Content strategy beyond auditing able to develop actionable recommendations not just identify gaps
  
  Tech stack: Ahrefs or Semrush Screaming Frog Google Search Console / Structured Data Notion GA4 GTM Profound Otterly AthenaHQ.
  
  

What we offer

Fully remote and async. No probation period the first audit serves as the screen. Direct relationship with the founder and clients no account management layer.

Selection process:
1. Recruiter screening
2. HM tech/case Interview
3. Reference check
4. Offer