Growth Operator, SEO & AEO
San Francisco, CA - USA
Job Summary
Flodesk is recognized in the Inc 5000 as one of the worlds fastest-growing email marketing companies built to help entrepreneurs sell online and design emails that people love to get. Were committed to giving small businesses simple and intuitive tools that help them grow nurture and monetize their email list.
Were a remote-first company headquartered in San Francisco with a globally distributed team including in-person hubs in Da Nang (Vietnam) Barcelona (Spain) and Menlo Park (California). Our team reflects the diversity and creativity of the people we serve. Join our mission to level the playing field for small business owners through good design.
Search behaviour is shifting fast. A growing share of our customers discover Flodesk through ChatGPT Claude Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. Were hiring a Growth operator to own how Flodesk shows up in those answers and turn AI search into a durable acquisition channel.
Youll lead AI search optimization across Flodesks content portfolio. The role sits at the intersection of SEO content strategy and applied AI: pruning what no longer serves us rebuilding what does and making sure LLMs cite us accurately when prospects ask about email marketing automations and selling online.
This is a hands-on operator role. Youll run audits ship changes through our CMS stack with AI-assisted tooling draft and edit content to a publishable standard and report on Search and AI visibility. Youll work closely with growth brand and marketing to inform the content strategy and ensure Flodesks voice and positioning are captured.
- Content portfolio management.Own Flodesks web content inventory across /blog and /tips. Continuously assess performance prune what isnt working consolidate thin content into stronger pieces and keep an auditable record of decisions.
- AI content structuring.Evolve how Flodesk content is structured for AI discoverability. Set and refine templates and patterns (AI summaries citation-ready formatting schema) measure and iterate based on whats actually getting cited.
- Content production. Write content thats worth reading: deep accurate useful. Partner closely with the brand team and leverage our internal artifacts (brand voice competitive analysis personas) to stay on voice.
- Technical execution. Ship changes on our sites and maintain technical SEO hygiene (structured data canonicals site speed crawlability).
- Measurement and experimentation. Track AI search visibility (share of voice citations sentiment across ChatGPT Claude Perplexity Google AI Overviews) alongside traditional SEO metrics. Run a steady stream of small structured tests measure deltas against a baseline and report biweekly on whats working whats not and what youre testing next.
- Multi-platform distribution. Expand beyond into Reddit Youtube and other content platforms as the on-site foundation matures.
- 3 to 5 years in SEO content marketing or growth with experience working on AEO / GEO / AI search optimization.
- A track record of moving growth metrics: organic traffic AI citations qualified sign-ups. You can point to specific work and explain what you did how you did it and why.
- Strong technical SEO foundation: structured data internal linking redirects crawl health Search Console.
- Hands-on comfort in Webflow or other CMS platforms. You can ship content changes end-to-end autonomously.
- Exceptional AI prompting skills. Given our brand guidelines you can produce drafts that are accurate on brand and worth a readers time.
- Data fluency. Comfortable in GA Search Console and AI visibility tools. Comfortable pulling and manipulating your own data in spreadsheets or SQL.
- An operators mindset. You live in the metrics build automations and systems instead of doing the same manual task repeatedly. You run rigorous tests and communicate the results confidently to senior stakeholders.
Extra points if you have:
- Passion building for creators and small businesses.
- Experience with Ahrefs Semrush Profound or comparable tools.
- Coding or vibe-coding experience (e.g. in Claude Code).
- Experience with Git and GitHub / GitLab for collaborating on code.
- $120000 - $140000 USD base salary; Within this range an individuals base pay will be dependent on a variety of factors including without limitation job-related knowledge skills education and experience
- Fully paid health insurance
- 16 weeks paid parental leave
- Unlimited flexible time off
- 401k match (US employees only)
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About Company
With uncompromising design and robust deliverability, Flodesk emails get seen 17% more than industry average.