SEO & AI Search Strategist

**Job Description: SEO \& AI Search Strategist (On\-Keyboard)** **Location:** Remote with two office workdays per month **Department:** Digital Marketing **Experience:** 3\-6 years **Reports To:** Director of Marketing and Head of Growth and Performance **Salary Range:** $70k\-$90k **Benefits:** Health insurance, Vision \& Dental, PTO **About Us** At Junction Creative, we help businesses grow through strategic marketing that delivers measurable results. We combine data\-driven SEO, paid media, web development, AI\-powered marketing, and creative strategy to help clients dominate their markets. As search evolves from traditional Google rankings to AI\-powered answer engines, we're looking for an SEO professional who is passionate about staying ahead of the industry and helping clients succeed in the era of AI search. **Position Overview** We are seeking a highly motivated, hands\-on **SEO Specialist** who will execute day\-to\-day SEO initiatives while helping clients gain visibility across both traditional search engines and emerging AI platforms. This is an "on\-keyboard" production role which will heavily utilize SEMRush and similar platforms. You will be responsible for implementing SEO strategies, conducting technical audits, creating optimization plans, executing content improvements, tracking performance, and helping clients become visible within AI\-generated search experiences. The ideal candidate understands that SEO is rapidly evolving beyond Google rankings into AI\-powered search platforms such as ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and other large language model (LLM) search experiences. Very few people check every single box, and we don't expect you to. What matters more is curiosity and a willingness to build the skills you don't have yet. We're committed to our employees' growth, so if this role excites you, we'd like to hear from you. **Primary Responsibilities** **Traditional SEO** * Perform comprehensive SEO audits * Conduct keyword research and search intent analysis * Build content strategies * Optimize website architecture * Improve on\-page SEO * Optimize metadata * Internal linking strategy * Schema markup implementation * Technical SEO recommendations * XML sitemap optimization * Robots.txt management * Core Web Vitals optimization * Crawl error analysis * Backlink analysis * Competitor SEO analysis * Local SEO optimization * Google Business Profile optimization * Monitor rankings and organic traffic * Prepare monthly reporting * Implement SEO recommendations in WordPress and other CMS platforms like Wix. **AI Search Optimization (AIO)** Help clients increase visibility within AI\-powered search experiences by: * Optimizing websites for Google AI Overviews * Improving visibility in ChatGPT responses * Optimizing for Perplexity AI * Optimizing for Claude * Optimizing for Gemini * Structuring content for LLM consumption * Implementing semantic SEO best practices * Creating enti