Lead Technical SEO & AI Search (AEO/GEO)

TDCX; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

TDCX is seeking a founding Lead Technical Specialist to architect and deliver AI readiness solutions for ecommerce clients. You will own technical audits, schema improvements, and the deployment framework that powers our early-stage AI SaaS product.

You’ll collaborate with partners and internal stakeholders to scale audits, build automation, and establish best practices for AI-enabled discoverability and structured data success across client portfolios.

Qualifications

• Shopify Plus / Magento expertise – hands-on experience building on or configuring major online retail platforms.
• Schema.org / JSON-LD proficiency – deep understanding of product, organisation, breadcrumb, and review schema; able to write and validate JSON-LD from scratch
• Google Merchant Centre familiarity – knowledge of product feed requirements, disapproval reasons, and structured data validation
• High-throughput work style – comfortable maintaining quality at volume across a high daily audit cadence

Responsibilities

• Lead AI readiness audits across customer websites (Shopify Plus, Magento) to identify structured data and discoverability issues.
• Develop and validate structured data upgrades and schema markup on client sites and our own platform.
• Build and maintain the self-service AI Readiness Audit tool and deployment templates.
• Collaborate with agency partners to deliver scalable, repeatable deployments.

Skills

Shopify Plus

Magento

Schema.org/JSON-LD

Google Merchant Centre

High-throughput work style

Job description

Build the technology powering how businesses are discovered and trusted by AI.

We're building an AI-native SaaS platform that helps businesses become accurately understood, recommended, and trusted by Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and other AI assistants.

Launching in the second half of 2026, our platform enables businesses to identify and fix AI discoverability issues through automated audits, structured data optimisation, and AI readiness monitoring. We're looking for our first Lead Technical Specialist to help build the technology that powers our growth.

If you're excited about AI, ecommerce, technical SEO, automation, and building products from the ground up, this is your opportunity to shape an entirely new category.

• Be part of the core foundational team building an AI SaaS business
• Work directly with the General Manager and influence both product and technical direction with direct exposure to key commercial decisions.
• Build products that solve emerging AI discoverability challenges for thousands of online businesses
• Enjoy the ownership and pace of a startup, backed by the stability of an established organisation.
• Help define the technical standards for an entirely new product category using AI infrastructure.

What is your mission?

As our founding Lead Technical Specialist, you'll become the technical backbone of our customer delivery and product growth engine.

Build AI Readiness Solutions

• Perform AI readiness audits across a variety of key customer websites, including Shopify Plus and Magento websites to identify structured data, crawlability, and AI discoverability issues.
• Implement and validate structured data (JSON-LD/Schema.org) improvements to improve how AI platforms interpret websites.
• Implement the structured data and technical SEO foundation on our own website - schema markup, site structure and keyword mapping.
• Deploy our AI Readiness Badge as part of customer onboarding.

Build Our Product

• Develop and maintain our self-service AI Readiness Audit tool - the primary acquisition channel for new customers.
• Build internal tools and automation that improve audit quality, deployment speed, and operational efficiency.

Support partner success with strong technical foundations

• Collaborate with agency partners to deliver successful customer deployments.
• Provide technical expertise during customer demonstrations and implementation discussions.
• Develop repeatable deployment methodologies that can scale globally.

Improve Platform Visibility

• Implement technical SEO and structured data best practices across our own platform.
• Continuously optimise website performance, discoverability, and AI search readiness.

What Success Looks Like

Within your first operational phase in 2026, you'll have:

• Helped launch our self-service AI audit platform.
• Established scalable audit and deployment processes.
• Empowered founding agency partners with Done-For-You deployments across their client portfolios.
• Become the go-to technical resource for prospect and pitch demonstrations - running live audits, explaining fix logic, and handling technical questions.
• Successfully deployed AI Readiness solutions for our first 100+ customers.
• Built the technical SEO and structured data foundation supporting our growth.

Who are we looking for?

• Shopify Plus / Magento expertise - hands-on experience building on or configuring at least one major online retail platform; Shopify Plus experience is preferred
• Schema.org / JSON-LD proficiency - deep understanding of product, organisation, breadcrumb, and review schema; able to write and validate JSON-LD from scratch
• Google Merchant Centre familiarity - working knowledge of product feed requirements, disapproval reasons, and structured data validation
• High-throughput work style - comfortable maintaining quality at volume across a high daily audit cadence

Bonus Skills:

• Understanding of how AI crawlers interpret and prioritise structured data signals
• Experience with other online retail platforms beyond Shopify
• Familiarity with Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO) concepts
• Experience building schema fix templates or batch deployment automation