Head of AEO & SEO Full-time Job

**Stripe is hiring a Head of SEO & AEO to lead organic growth strategy across traditional search and emerging AI-powered answer engines (e.
g.
, ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity).
** Reporting within the Growth Marketing team, this senior leadership role owns the end-to-end strategy—spanning technical SEO, content, site architecture, and structured data—to maximize visibility for developers and business decision-makers.

**Key responsibilities include:** building and leading a team of specialists; defining the measurement framework to attribute revenue impact; partnering cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and Data Science to embed best practices; and presenting strategic narratives to executives.
The role requires defining the "playbook" for Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) as a novel acquisition channel.

**Ideal candidates possess 10+ years of SEO experience (3+ years leading teams), deep technical and content strategy expertise, and a proven understanding of LLM retrieval/citation mechanics.
** They must demonstrate the ability to drive measurable growth at scale, influence executives, and operate at the intersection of content, product, and engineering.
Experience with developer-focused B2B products, international SEO, and programmatic scaling is preferred.