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title: 'SEO & AEO Lead at OpenArt AI'
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# SEO & AEO Lead at OpenArt AI

- **Company:** OpenArt AI
- **Location:** San Carlos California, United States
- **Compensation:** $200k–$250k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openart/d2b44451-40bd-418f-a000-9428d4b5b3d6

## Job description

SEO & AEO Lead

## About OpenArt

We built OpenArt for people who have a vision but not a studio, and creators who have a story but not an entire production team. Today, OpenArt is one of the fastest-growing AI creative platforms, helping millions of people create images, videos, stories, ads, and other creative content with AI. OpenArt was selected as one of just five companies in the 2026 Disney Accelerator and recognized by Notable Capital's Prosumer AI 40 as one of the 40 most innovative AI-native companies. We're a small, ambitious team that moves fast, takes ownership, and builds without waiting for a playbook. Learn more: https://openart.ai/

## The Role

We're hiring an SEO & AEO Lead to run OpenArt's SEO team and own how we get found — in Google and in AI assistants. This is a player-coach role: roughly half your time leading a small, distributed team and half hands-on in the work. The publishing volume we need isn't achievable by hand, so we want someone who already ships content at scale with AI and can teach the team to work the same way.

## What You'll Own

Organic Strategy & Growth

- Own organic end to end across Google and AI assistants: cluster strategy, page production, technical health, links, and the results they deliver in traffic, rankings, and paid subscribers.
- Move our hardest category head terms in AI image and video into the top results, and be honest about which need better content versus authority we don't yet have.
- Own measurement, including connecting SEO performance to revenue by cluster, and make the calls on where to stop investing — including in clusters you originally championed.

## Team Leadership

- Run the SEO team day to day, set the bar for briefs, templates, and review, and own the output as a whole.
- If pages ship late or quality slips, that's yours before it's anyone else's.
- Coach the team on AEO and on working with AI. Most SEO practitioners have never written for citation or run an AI-assisted pipeline, and both are trainable.

Content & AI-Powered Production

- Ship the hardest clusters yourself, from keyword set to live pages. You set the standard by doing the work, not by describing it in a doc.
- Build the production system that lets a small team publish hundreds of pages a month with AI: prompts, templates, review criteria, and a kill rate you can defend.

AEO & AI Discovery

- Own how OpenArt shows up in AI assistants and AI Overviews across tracked prompt sets, and define what we count.
- The data is noisy and easy to over-read, so the metric has to be one leadership can actually act on.
- Earn citations where they actually come from: comparison pages, structured Q&A, schema, and original data on-site, plus YouTube, Reddit, and third-party roundups off-site.

Authority & Link Building

- Direct link acquisition.
- Pick the target pages, set the anchor strategy, decide what's worth paying for, and review what the link builder brings rather than rubber-stamping it.

Technical SEO

- Keep the technical foundation sound as publishing volume scales, working directly with engineering.
- Write tickets engineers can act on and defend the priority when SEO work competes with product work.

## What You'll Bring

- 5–10 years of SEO experience, including time owning organic growth for a site at real scale.
- Experience leading people, with clear examples of work that improved because of how you managed the team.
- A genuinely hands-on approach. You still run your own audits, pull your own data, and write your own briefs.
- Experience shipping content with AI at volume, with a clear system for maintaining quality.
- An AI-native workflow: LLMs and agents are part of your daily work, including wiring up tools over MCP to pull your own data.
- Strong technical SEO fundamentals, plus real AEO experience or a serious point of view on how AEO should work.
- Strong data fluency. You're comfortable enough with SQL or a BI tool to answer your own questions, and skeptical enough to notice when a number looks wrong.
- Based in the Bay Area, or willing to relocate.

## Nice to Have

- Consumer or content-heavy platform experience.
- Programmatic page generation at scale.
- Experience managing across time zones.
- Digital PR and link-building experience for high-difficulty head terms.
- International SEO experience.

## Our Stack

SEO & Analytics: Google Search Console, Ahrefs, GA4, Amplitude, BigQuery, Metabase AI: Claude, Codex Collaboration: Asana, Notion

## About OpenArt AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: OpenArt is an all-in-one AI creative platform that enables users to generate, edit, and remix images, videos, characters, audio, and 3D worlds through a single interface.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Coco Mao (CEO), John Qiao (CTO) – both former Google engineers

## Core Business
- Primary Industry: Technology, Information and Internet; AI‑powered creative tools
- Target Customers: B2C (millions of individual creators) and B2B (brands, studios, content teams)
- Mission Statement: “Build the future of storytelling with AI.”

## Products & Services
- **Image Generation & Editing** – Generate images using models like GPT Image 2, Nano Banana Pro, Seedream 5.0, and edit within the same canvas (erase, expand, restyle, upscale to 4K).
- **Video Generation** – Create videos up to 15 seconds at up to 4K resolution, choosing from models such as Veo 3.1, Seedance 2.0, Kling 3.0 Omni, and Sora 2. Refine or edit each generation.
- **Character Builder** – Build consistent characters using reference images or text; characters can be reused across images, scenes, and videos with the same face and style.
- **World** – Generate persistent, navigable 3D spatial environments from a single prompt or reference images; add characters, place objects, take still photos, or export to 3D tools.
- **Audio** – AI voiceovers in 30+ languages with lip‑sync, original music generation, and sound effects (footsteps, rain, etc.). Export as WAV or MP3 timed to video.
- **OpenArt Director** – Storyboard and refine video sequences using natural‑language chat for granular shot‑by‑shot control.
- **Smart Shot** – Convert a single prompt into 3–5 cinematic cuts with varied angles, camera moves, and visual consistency.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metrics**:
  - **Annual Recurring Revenue**: Grew from $10.5 M to over $70 M in 2025 (7× growth) [[openart.ai/blog]](https://openart.ai/blog/the-openart-story/)
  - **Monthly Active Users**: 8 million+ [[openart.ai/blog]](https://openart.ai/blog/the-openart-story/)
- **Total Funding**: $40 M+ across three rounds:
  - Seed (June 2023): $5 M led by DCM Ventures and CapitalOven [[tracxn.com]](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/openart/__rGLZ4jZtTKFqOnIFJpVIpXqrPEtJHfzKwCfxXxYFnns)
  - Venture Round (Aug 2025): $5 M [[linkedin.com]](https://www.linkedin.com/company/openart-ai)
  - Series A (2026–Q1): $30 M – $35 M (conflicting reports) led by Canaan Partners [[openart.ai/blog]](https://openart.ai/blog/the-openart-story/)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Canaan Partners, DCM Ventures, CapitalOven; partnerships with leading AI model providers (Seedream, Google Veo, Kling, etc.)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Employee headcount: 67 (1,172.7% YoY growth; 29.6% monthly growth) [[linkedin.com]](https://www.linkedin.com/company/openart-ai)
  - Presence in 17 countries across North America, Asia, and Europe
  - Hosted the world’s first AI Influencer Summit and produced “Bot House,” the first AI reality TV show

## Competitive Advantages
- **All‑in‑one platform**: Instead of juggling separate tools (Midjourney for images, Runway/Sora for video, etc.), users access images, video, characters, audio, and 3D worlds under a single subscription.
- **Character consistency**: A core differentiator – one character can be reused across images, scenes, and videos with the same look, enabling storytelling and AI influencers.
- **Model agnosticism**: The platform bundles multiple top‑tier AI models (Seedream, Veo, GPT Image, Kling, Sora, etc.), letting users pick the best option per project without paying multiple subscriptions.
- **Strong retention driven by storytelling**: The metric most watched is not ARR but how often creators return to deepen characters and expand universes.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue building the end‑to‑end creative platform for storytellers (characters, worlds, long‑form video)
- Expand the AI influencer and brand‑mascot market (e.g., AI Influencer Summit, Bot House reality show)
- Deepen integration of audio and video editing for professional studios
- Grow the engineering and product teams – “We’ve nearly doubled in size this year, and the pace isn’t slowing down.” [[openart.ai/blog]](https://openart.ai/blog/the-openart-story/)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast‑moving, lean team that “move[s] fast, over‑communicate[s], and put[s] storytelling at the heart of everything.” [[openart.ai/blog]](https://openart.ai/blog/the-openart-story/)
- **Growth trajectory**: Company experienced 7× ARR growth in one year and is actively hiring across departments (engineering, design, product, marketing)
- **Founders**: Ex‑Google (Coco Mao, John Qiao) with a track record of launching products at scale (short‑form video platform acquired by Google Search)
- **Work model**: Hybrid / office presence in San Francisco (HQ) and Redwood City; no formal remote‑first policy stated
- **Notable**: Free trial available for users; employees have backgrounds from top AI companies (Stability AI, Invideo, ImagineArt, etc.)

## Sources
1. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/openart-ai)
2. [openart.ai](https://openart.ai/)
3. [openart.ai/blog](https://openart.ai/blog/the-openart-story/)
4. [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/openart/__rGLZ4jZtTKFqOnIFJpVIpXqrPEtJHfzKwCfxXxYFnns)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openart)

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