SEO + AI Search Specialist (Contract/Part-Time)

About SketchDeck

Elevate your career working with leading global brands alongside inspiring colleagues in a flexible, remote-first environment. At SketchDeck, we aim to bring great people together to deliver exceptional impact. Through a combination of purpose-driven partnership, technology, and global talent, we help brands realize their limitless potential with quality creative and digital solutions provided on demand. We work with clients ranging from startups to well-known enterprise brands such as Dropbox, Rémy Cointreau, and Asana.

At SketchDeck, our values are more than just guiding principles—theyʼre the foundation of how we work and grow together globally. We commit to:

• Win as a Team.
• Find Solutions.
• Take Ownership.
• Do the Right Thing.
• Be Human.

Guided by our vision to be the best full-service creative partner, we empower our team to collaborate and innovate from anywhere with a flexible, remote-first culture. Our camera-on, Slack-heavy environment cultivates genuine relationships and collaboration, where we actively seek culture add, not just culture fit.

The Role

AI-driven discovery is reshaping how audiences find brands, and we are helping our clients lead the way — across AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and beyond. We are looking for a senior SEO and AI search specialist contractor to help our clients show up where their audiences are searching now. Approximately 10 hours per week, ongoing, across a mix of B2B and B2C projects.

What You Will Do

• Audit and strategy: Conduct technical and content SEO audits, identify AI search visibility gaps, and recommend prioritized roadmaps.
• AI search optimization: Improve client visibility in Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini through structured data, entity optimization, citation strategy, and answer-first content.
• Keyword and content strategy: Lead keyword research, search intent mapping, and content briefs for both traditional SERPs and AI surfaces.
• Technical SEO: Review crawlability, indexation, schema, Core Web Vitals, and rendering. Partner with client or internal dev teams on fixes.
• Measurement and reporting: Set up and interpret performance data across GA4, Google Search Console, Ahrefs/SEMrush, and AI visibility tools (Profound, Otterly, Peec AI).
• Tool exploration: Help us evaluate new AI search tools as they emerge. Curiosity matters.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Brief our writers and designers on SEO/AEO requirements and join client calls as the SEO subject matter expert.

Requirements

• 5–10+ years of hands-on SEO experience across technical, on-page, and content optimization. Agency or enterprise background preferred.
• Active work in AI search optimization — AEO, GEO, and AIO. We know this space is new; we want someone experimenting with real results to point to, not someone claiming a decade of expertise that doesn't exist yet.
• Fluent in the modern tool stack: Ahrefs or SEMrush, Google Search Console, GA4, Screaming Frog, Schema.org, and at least one AI visibility tracker.
• Strong content instincts. You understand how editorial quality, entity clarity, and answer-first structure drive both rankings and AI citations.
• Clear communicator. You can translate technical concepts for non-technical clients and write recommendations creative teams can act on.
• Comfortable with ambiguity. You test, measure, and adjust rather than wait for settled best practices.
• Mix of B2B and B2C experience, ideally including technical/enterprise B2B and consumer brands.

Benefits

Hours: ~5-10 hours per week, with flexibility to scale for project needs

Rate: $100–$150 per hour, commensurate with experience

Location: Remote (global)

Start: Immediate, with an initial 90-day evaluation period

How to Apply

Send a short note about your background, resume with links to relevant work (especially AI search visibility examples), and your hourly rate, to careers@sketchdeck.com .

We are most interested in concrete results — a client whose AI Overview presence you grew, a schema implementation that moved the needle, an audit that surfaced something non-obvious.

Inclusivity Statement

We value diverse perspectives and are committed to an environment where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work daily. If youʼre excited about the role but donʼt meet every qualification, we still encourage you to apply—studies show that women and people of color are less likely to apply unless they meet all the requirements. Weʼre interested in what you can bring to our team, whether for this role or another opportunity in the future.

SketchDeck is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil status, pregnancy (or pregnancy-related conditions), gender identity or expression, transgender status or gender reassignment, race, color, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, religion or religious beliefs, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other grounds or characteristic that is protected under the law.

If you require reasonable accommodation during the interview process or employment, please contact us at careers@sketchdeck.com. Weʼre here to support you in every step of the process.