SEO/AEO Manager - Boulevard

The SEO/AEO Manager role at Boulevard is more than rankings or content briefs – it’s about owning how Boulevard gets found and chosen, whether that’s a Google search result or an answer inside ChatGPT. You’ll own strategy and execution across our core organic channels, driving results against business-critical metrics like MQLs and demos while helping Boulevard build visibility in the next generation of answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google’s AI Overviews as search behavior shifts.

This is a high-leverage role where your decisions directly shape how Boulevard attracts and converts organic demand and creates organic content. You’ll blend hands-on execution – technical audits, content optimization, AI-based content creation, structured data – with strategic ownership of the roadmap, partnering closely with Content & Web, Marketing Operations, Product Marketing, and Analytics to turn search and AI-answer visibility into pipeline.

Success in this role comes from technical rigor, staying ahead of how AI is reshaping discovery, and building systems that compound organic growth over time.

What you'll do

• Own the SEO program end to end – technical SEO, on-page optimization, content strategy, internal linking, and link building – in partnership with the Content & Web team.
• Lead technical SEO execution: site architecture, structured data/schema markup, Core Web Vitals, crawl and indexing health.
• Build and evolve Boulevard’s AEO strategy, implementing “answer-first” content formatting and semantic reinforcement to earn inclusion in AI Overviews and citations across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini – including modifying schema and structured data to help with crawl/capture.
• Conduct keyword research, entity mapping, and intent analysis to prioritize content that captures search and prompt intent – ideally building search TAMs and keyword and content mapping documents to drive strategy.
• Monitor performance regularly across traditional metrics (rankings, clicks, impressions) and next-gen metrics (citation frequency, share of voice, AI referral traffic) – spotting trends and making proactive recommendations.
• Build and maintain dashboards and reports that clearly communicate organic performance, insights, and recommendations to stakeholders.
• Partner closely with Marketing Operations and Analytics to ensure accurate tracking and attribution, tying organic activity to MQLs, SALs, and Demo Completes.
• Collaborate with Brand & Content, Web/Engineering, Product Marketing, and Growth to align the roadmap with business priorities.
• Identify opportunities to improve performance through automation, AI tooling, and process improvements.

What you bring

• 5-8+ years of hands-on SEO experience with clear accountability for organic traffic, rankings, and pipeline metrics like MQLs and SALs.
• Deep expertise in technical SEO: site architecture, structured data/schema markup, Core Web Vitals, crawl efficiency, and indexing – with the ability to guide developers on technical implementation and to measure the impact of those changes.
• Hands-on experience building AEO strategy and measurement, tracking citation frequency, brand mention share, and referral traffic from AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews.
• Experience operating as a hands-on individual contributor, owning the SEO program end to end and partnering with content and web teams to execute.
• Strong content and keyword instincts, with experience running keyword research, intent analysis, and content gap analysis to inform the editorial roadmap, working with the content team.
• Highly analytical, able to diagnose ranking or visibility drops and identify opportunities to capture more share of search.
• Experience building and maintaining dashboards, reporting, and performance narratives for organic channels.
• Comfort partnering with Marketing Operations and Analytics to ensure accurate tracking, attribution, and measurement.
• Experience working cross-functionally with Content, Web/Engineering, Product Marketing, and Demand Gen.
• Experience evaluating and implementing new AI tools for content production or SEO workflows to scale editorial content, including work with Claude Code and/or Codex.

Bonus points

• Experience in B2B SaaS, vertical SaaS, or multi-location business models.
• Hands-on experience with AI visibility/citation tracking tools like Peec, Profound, Scrunch, or AirOps.
• Exposure to emerging AI crawling protocols and formats (llms.txt, plain-markdown pages built for LLM consumption, schema implementation).
• Experience with international or multi-region SEO.
• Experience with Sigma, Looker, and other reporting platforms.