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title: 'Head of AEO & SEO at Stripe'
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# Head of AEO & SEO at Stripe

- **Company:** Stripe
- **Location:** United States / Chicago, IL
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://stripe.com/jobs/search?gh_jid=8128634

## Job description

## Who we are

## About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.

## About the team

Growth Marketing is a team of performance-driven marketers and channel specialists. We partner closely with growth product, regional and demand marketing, and sales to drive revenue through self-serve and sales motions. The SEO & AEO function specifically drives organic discovery ensuring Stripe is found, cited, and recommended when developers, founders, and finance leaders are searching for or asking about payments, financial infrastructure, and related topics.

## What you’ll do

This role owns one of the most strategically important and evolving acquisition channels at Stripe. Organic search is already one of our largest and most efficient growth channels and the emergence of AI-powered answer engines represents a once-in-a-generation shift in how businesses discover software. The role requires someone who can operate at the intersection of content, product, engineering, and data and who can credibly engage with Stripe's executive team on the strategic importance of organic visibility. This is a rare opportunity to define what AEO means for a company like Stripe and to build the playbook that others will follow.

## Responsibilities

- Own the organic growth strategy end-to-end across SEO and AEO (Answer Engine Optimization), including technical optimizations, content strategy, on-site experience, and visibility in general purpose assistants (ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Perplexity, etc.) and coding assistants (e.g. Claude, Codex, etc.)
- Lead, develop, and retain a high-performing team of SEO and AEO specialists, fostering a culture of experimentation, operational excellence, and continuous learning
- Drive measurable improvements in organic visibility, rankings, citations, traffic, signups, sales inbound and downstream activations across both AEO and SEO
- Drive measurable improvements in how well AI tools are able to understand how Stripe’s products work and how to properly integrate them
- Partner cross-functionally with product, engineering, content, growth, data science, and marketing to embed SEO/AEO best practices across Stripe's web properties, documentation, and product surfaces
- Build and evolve the measurement framework for SEO and AEO: develop attribution models, define leading/lagging indicators, and quantify the revenue impact of organic channels
- Own strategic roadmap for AEO: establish Stripe's point of view on how AI-generated answers reshape discovery, and position Stripe to win
- Drive improvements across content quality, website architecture, and structured data to maximize discoverability
- Represent organic growth performance and strategy across Stripe: translating complex technical SEO/AEO concepts into clear business impact narratives

## Who you are

We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

## Minimum requirements

- 10+ years of experience in SEO, with at least 3 years leading a team and 2+ years at a senior/leadership level engaging with executives
- Demonstrated expertise in both technical SEO and content strategy, with a track record of driving significant organic growth at scale
- Deep understanding of how AI-powered search and answer engines work (LLM-based retrieval, citation behavior, entity recognition) and a clear point of view on how to optimize for them
- Ability to drive improvements across multiple levers: content, website architecture, product surfaces, structured data, measurement, and cross-functional influence
- Strong analytical foundation: comfortable with data, attribution challenges, and building measurement frameworks that quantify the business impact of organic channels
- Proven ability to communicate complex technical concepts to executive audiences and build strategic alignment around organic growth investment
- Experience working cross-functionally with engineering, product, content, and data science teams to implement SEO/AEO improvements at scale
- Track record of building, developing, and retaining high-performing teams

## Preferred qualifications

- Experience with developer-focused or technical B2B products where documentation, API references, and technical content are significant organic surfaces
- Background in international SEO strategy, including managing organic growth across multiple markets and languages
- Experience building programmatic or product-led SEO at scale (e.g., template pages, user-generated content, dynamic landing pages)
- Demonstrated early-mover advantage in AEO evidence of monitoring, optimizing for, or measuring visibility in AI-generated answers
- Comfort operating in a fast-paced, metrics-driven culture where you must build the case for investment through data and strategic narrative

## About Stripe

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Financial services / payments infrastructure
- Target customers: B2B – from startups to global enterprises (e.g., Le Monde, trucking companies)
- Mission: “Increase the GDP of the internet” by making online commerce easier and more accessible

## Products & Services
- **Stripe Payments**: Accept and optimise payments globally – online and in person; supports 135+ currencies and payment methods [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/)
- **Stripe Billing**: Manage subscriptions, invoices, and recurring revenue; over 200 million active subscriptions managed [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/)
- **Stripe Connect**: Embed payments into platforms and marketplaces
- **Stripe Atlas**: Incorporate a company, get everything needed to fundraise and start selling
- **Stripe Terminal**: In-person payments with customisable card readers
- **Stripe Issuing**: Create and manage a card issuing programme
- **Stripe Climate**: Automatically contribute a fraction of revenue to carbon removal

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: $1.9 trillion in payments volume processed in 2025 [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not disclosed in provided sources
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Infrastructure underpins more than 1% of global GDP [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/jobs/life-at-stripe)
  - Over 8,000 employees across 25+ offices worldwide [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/jobs)
  - 99.999% historical uptime for Stripe services [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/)
  - Deploys 10,000+ times per day while maintaining five 9s of reliability [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/jobs/life-at-stripe)
  - 135+ currencies and payment methods supported [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Scale & Reliability**: Processes massive transaction volumes with 99.999% uptime – a level of trust few competitors match.
- **Developer‑First Experience**: Obsessive focus on API design, documentation, and ease of integration; “start with a blank screen, work until a product is ready, polish until exceptional” [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/jobs/life-at-stripe).
- **Global Reach**: Supports 135+ currencies and payment methods, with local offices in 25+ cities to serve regional needs.
- **Network Effects**: The more businesses use Stripe, the more data and infrastructure advantages accrue, making it harder to switch.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI & Agentic Commerce**: Building economic infrastructure for AI, including monetisation through agentic commerce [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/).
- **Crypto & Stablecoins**: Enabling borderless money movement with stablecoins and crypto [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/).
- **Platform Expansion**: Continuing to add financial tools (billing, issuing, terminal, climate) that work individually or together.
- **Globalisation**: Deepening presence in markets like Japan, India, and Latin America.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Intense and kind” – high expectations paired with a supportive, transparent environment. Weekly all‑hands with senior leaders; decisions based on idea quality, not seniority [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/jobs/life-at-stripe).
- **Growth & Ownership**: “Promotions are tied to demonstrated impact, not tenure.” Employees get substantial responsibility early, often working outside their domain [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/jobs).
- **Work Model**: Hybrid/remote‑friendly – two main HQs (San Francisco & Dublin) plus 25+ offices, and many Stripes work from home or coworking spaces [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/jobs).
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive medical, mental health, financial advisory, family planning, and parental leave. Education team provides onboarding and ongoing expert‑led courses [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/en-gi/jobs/benefits).
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: Employee‑created resource groups (Stripe Communities), accommodations for disabilities, and a commitment to equal opportunity [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/jobs).

## Sources
1. [stripe.com/jobs/life-at-stripe](https://stripe.com/jobs/life-at-stripe)
2. [stripe.com/jobs](https://stripe.com/jobs)
3. [stripe.com/](https://stripe.com/)
4. [stripe.com/jobs/search](https://stripe.com/jobs/search)
5. [stripe.com/en-gi/jobs/benefits](https://stripe.com/en-gi/jobs/benefits)

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