AI Visibility and SEO Manager

Intuitive Surgical, Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 139,000 - 201,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuitive Surgical, Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA seeks an AI Visibility and SEO Manager to ensure branded content is easily discoverable by search engines and AI answer engines worldwide. You will implement structured data and schema markup to enable reliable parsing.

Collaborating with web producers and content teams, you will scale global standards, monitor AI appearances, and identify gaps. Strong SEO fundamentals and JSON-LD expertise are essential.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in SEO, technical SEO, or related digital marketing.
• Experience across international markets and languages.
• Hands-on with JSON-LD and schema markup.
• Familiarity with AI answer engines and generative search.

Responsibilities

• Audit web content for AI discoverability and proper formatting.
• Implement structured data and schema markup across properties.
• Monitor AI answers and traditional search for presence and accuracy.
• Apply global content standards across markets and CMS.
• Collaborate with brand/content teams to optimize formatting per language.
• Conduct technical SEO audits influencing crawlability and Core Web Vitals.
• Test changes and QA structured data before deployment.
• Stay updated on AI search trends and update tactics.
• Provide recommendations to marketing teams.

Skills

SEO

Technical SEO

JSON-LD / Schema

HTML/CSS basics

International markets

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Google Search Console

Screaming Frog

Semrush

Ahrefs

Conductor

Job description

Company Description

It started with a simple idea: what if surgery could be less invasive and recovery less painful? Nearly 30 years later, that question still fuels everything we do at Intuitive. As a global leader in robotic-assisted surgery and minimally invasive care, our technologies-like the da Vinci surgical system and Ion-have transformed how care is delivered for millions of patients worldwide.

We're a team of engineers, clinicians, and innovators united by one purpose: to make surgery smarter, safer, and more human. Every day, our work helps care teams perform with greater precision and patients recover faster, improving outcomes around the world.

The problems we solve demand creativity, rigor, and collaboration. The work is challenging, but deeply meaningful-because every improvement we make has the potential to change a life.

If you're ready to contribute to something bigger than yourself and help transform the future of healthcare, you'll find your purpose here.

Job Description

Primary Function of Position

The AI Visibility and SEO Manager is responsible for executing the day-to-day work that keeps Intuitive's branded content discoverable, citable, and accurately represented across search engines and AI answer engines globally. This role implements structured data, schema markup and content formatting standards that make digital content easy for both traditional search crawlers and generative AI systems to parse, cite, and surface. The AI Visibility and SEO Manager leads translating the global standards for AI and search visibility into hands‑on execution across global digital properties and markets. This role partners closely with web producers, social media specialists, and content marketing teams to ensure new and existing digital content is structured correctly from the start, monitors how the company's content is appearing in AI-generated answers and traditional search results, and flags gaps and opportunities before they effect brand and marketing visibility. This role requires deep technical expertise, the ability to influence content strategy, crawlability, branded search prompts, and excellent communication skills to engage with business partners at all levels of the company and globally.

Essential Job Duties

• Audit web content and content strategy for AI discoverability, including heading structure, formatting, and content extractability by large language models (LLMs) and answer engines.
• Implement structured data and schema markup (e.g. Product, FAQs, HowTo, Organization schemas) across web properties to improve parsing by search engines and AI answer engines.
• Monitor brand and product visibility across AI answers engines (e.g. AI Overviews, Gemini, ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, Perplexity, etc.) and traditional search, reporting on presence, accuracy, and share of voice.
• Execute the global content and schema standards across market and properties.
• Partner with Web Producers, brand content, and marketing message teams to adapt content formatting per market and language for optimal AI and search parsing.
• Conduct technical SEO audits covering crawlability, indexability, and site performance as they affect AI and search visibility.
• Test and validate structured data and markup changes before deployment, running QA to confirm technical accuracy.
• Monitor emerging AEO search behaviors and platforms, updating marketing tactics and content playbooks as the landscape evolves.
• Provide recommendations to content product marketing, and creative teams on structuring new content for AI and search visibility.

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience

• 7+ years of experience in SEO, technical SEO, content strategy, and/or related digital marketing, brand or web role.
• Excellent written communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to marketing and creative stakeholders.
• Experience working across multiple international markets and languages.
• Hands-on experience implementing structured data and schema markup (JSON-LD, schema.org).
• Familiarity with AI answer engines and frontier models (Claude, CoPilot, ChatGPT, Perplexity, etc.), generative search behaviors, and how content is surfaced within them.
• Working knowledge of international and technical SEO fundamentals, including canonicals, crawlability, indexability, site architecture, and Core Web Vitals.
• Experience with SEO and visibility tools (e.g. Google Search Console, Screaming Frog, Semrush, Ahrefs, Conductor, and/or emerging AI-visibility monitoring tools).
• Basic HTML/CSS proficiency and comfort making structured-data edits within a CMS.

  Strong analytical skills, with the ability to translate visibility data into actionable recommendations for cross-functional teams to implement in marketing and creative processes.

• Famility enterprise CMS platforms and analytics platforms.

Required Education and Training

• 7+ years of SEO and AI Visibility experience in a role combining marketing technology, or digital web content strategy and production, ideally supporting global marketing, demand gen, and growth marketing teams in a regulated environment.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

Additional Information

Due to the nature of our business and the role, please note that Intuitive and/or your customer(s) may require that you show current proof of vaccination against certain diseases including COVID-19. Details can vary by role.

Intuitive is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees, and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, without regard to race, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, genetic information or any other status protected under federal, state, or local applicable laws.

Mandatory Notices

U.S. Export Controls Disclaimer: In accordance with the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (15 CFR §743.13(b)), some roles at Intuitive Surgical may be subject to U.S. export controls for prospective employees who are nationals from countries currently on embargo or sanctions status.

Certain information you provide as part of the application will be used for purposes of determining whether Intuitive Surgical will need to obtain an export license from the U.S. Government on your behalf (note: the government's licensing process can take 3 to 6+ months) or implement a Technology Control Plan ("TCP") (note: typically adds 2 weeks to the hiring process).

For any Intuitive role subject to export controls, final offers are contingent upon obtaining an approved export license and/or an executed TCP prior to the prospective employee's start date, which may or may not be flexible, and within a timeframe that does not unreasonably impede the hiring need. If applicable, candidates will be notified and instructed on any requirements for these purposes.

We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws.

This position may be filled at a different job level than listed here depending on business need and/or on the selected candidate's experience, knowledge and skills.

Compensation will be based primarily on the job level at which the role is filled and the candidate's qualifications, consistent with applicable law.

Accommodation & Accessibility Notice

Intuitive is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you require assistance or an accommodation during any part of the application or interview process, please contact People Services at [e-mail] .

We provide market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, benefits, and equity. It would not be typical for someone to be hired at the top end of range for the role, as actual pay will be determined based on several factors, including experience, skills, and qualifications. The target base compensation ranges are listed.

Base Compensation Range Region 1: $139,400 USD - $200,600 USD

Base Compensation Range Region 2: $118,500 USD - $170,500 USD

Shift: Day

Workplace Type: Set Schedule - This job will be onsite weekly, the percentage of onsite work will be defined by the leader.