AI SEO & AEO Strategy Lead

Madrona Venture Labs; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Runway is seeking an experienced SEO leader to own the end-to-end SEO and AI-search visibility strategy. You will manage content briefs, optimization, and measurement to drive organic growth and product signups.

You will work cross-functionally with product, design and marketing in a hybrid role, balancing strategic planning with hands-on execution to scale our library of content and improve technical health across the site.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in SEO, with experience contributing to overall strategy.
• Experience building or scaling an SEO function from a small base, moving fluidly between strategic and hands-on work
• Experience collaborating across teams, including managing freelancers and partnering with product, marketing and design teams
• Proficiency with GA4 and Google Search Console, plus keyword/competitive research tools like SEMrush or Ahrefs
• Experience in AEO / AI-search visibility, with the ability to bake it into a broader SEO strategy
• Experience using Profound, AirOps, or similar AEO tool is a plus
• Experience at an AI, product-led or consumer-facing tech company is a plus, where SEO has to coexist with a fast-moving roadmap

Responsibilities

• Own Runway's SEO and AEO strategy
• Build out Runway's library of SEO content
• Design and run experiments on content formats, internal linking and page structure
• Own technical SEO health: Indexing, sitemaps, structured data and schema markup
• Own measurement and reporting for organic growth: Track rankings and traffic

Skills

SEO strategy

Cross-functional collaboration

GA4

Google Search Console

Keyword research

AEO / AI-search visibility

Content optimization

Tools

SEMrush

Ahrefs

Profound

AirOps

Job description

Runway is seeking an experienced SEO leader to own the end-to-end SEO and AI-search visibility strategy. You will manage content briefs, optimization, and measurement to drive organic growth and product signups.

You will work cross-functionally with product, design and marketing in a hybrid role, balancing strategic planning with hands-on execution to scale our library of content and improve technical health across the site.