Merj
Senior SEO/AEO Consultant
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Senior SEO/AEO Consultant
Senior Technical SEO/AEO Consultant
The Role
As a Senior Technical SEO/AEO Consultant, you will help our clients win in a search landscape that increasingly includes AI assistants, LLM-driven search, and answer-first experiences. You will perform high-quality technical SEO, but you will also be expected to run structured discovery, design solutions, and execute (or support execution) across teams.
What You Will Do
- Own client strategy and delivery: Define clear technical search and AEO roadmaps, outcomes, and measurement plans, and deliver against them.
- Run discovery for selected initiatives: Diagnose problems, map constraints, and identify opportunities with client stakeholders in SEO, AEO, engineering, product, data, and content.
- Design and spec solutions: Turn discovery into well-formed specs, tickets, and implementation plans. Support developers and other teams through delivery.
- Build proof-of-concepts: Create lightweight prototypes and experiments to de-risk decisions.
- Solve technical SEO problems: Conduct audits, diagnose issues related to crawling/indexing/rendering, site architecture, performance, migrations, templates, and technical QA.
- Ship AEO initiatives: Improve how brands are discovered and represented in AI answers by combining structured data, entity modelling, information architecture, and content governance. Diagnose and remove bot access blockers using log data, and run experiments to validate impact on citations and assistant-driven journeys.
- Measure impact: Define metrics and dashboards, and use evidence to iterate.
- Contribute to Merj R&D: Help evolve internal tooling, playbooks, and points of view on SEO and AEO.
About Merj
Merj is a deeply technical SEO and AEO partner to global enterprise clients, engineering platforms, data, and technology for meaningful performance. We shape resilient, discoverable platforms designed for good bots, search engines, and customers alike.
Our Commitment:
- Engineered advantage: We find and implement hidden advantages that others miss, giving our clients a clear edge.
- Future-ready leadership: We actively experiment, test, and adapt to emerging search and AI technologies.
- Strategic clarity: We make sense of complexity to define clear paths for growth.
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About You
You bring a strong technical foundation, analytical rigour, and a genuine fascination with search, with a keen interest in solving complex problems. You also demonstrate:
- Curiosity and creativity to test new approaches.
- Judgement to turn experiments into repeatable delivery.
Attitude & Behaviours
You thrive in a high-trust environment and demonstrate:
- Ownership and accountability: Deliver on commitments and raise risks early.
- Precision: Define problems clearly, work from evidence, and communicate trade-offs effectively.
- Curiosity and experimentation: Test ideas, run controlled experiments, and learn quickly.
- Collaborative delivery: Work well across disciplines by leading working groups to ship outcomes.
- Clear communication: Write and speak with clarity, and can explain complex topics to non-specialists.
Required Skills & Experience
- 5+ years of experience in technical search, with at least 1.5 years at a reputable agency.
- Experience working with enterprise customers (e.g., publicly listed or with 500+ employees) and collaborating with developers and digital marketers to deliver measurable outcomes.
- Strong knowledge of technical SEO, including:
- Crawling, rendering, indexation, site architecture, performance, server logs, and complex CMS/front-end frameworks.
- Understanding how technical SEO is evolving with AI search.
- Strong diagnostic skills using logs and crawl data to identify and unblock access issues affecting search engines and LLM-driven assistants.
- Practical experience designing and validating structured data patterns and information architecture that support entity understanding, citations, and answer-first discovery.
- Comfort designing experiments and success metrics to validate visibility, citations, and assistant-driven conversions.
- Familiarity with platforms and tooling such as:
- Screaming Frog, Google Search Console, Ahrefs/SEMrush, GA/Adobe.
- Botify, Looker Studio, Grafana.
- Web coding experience in HTML and CSS.
- High standard of written and spoken business English.
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Working Pattern
Merj offers a flexible workplace. Applicants should ideally be within a commutable distance of London. The typical arrangement includes:
- 1 day/month of all-company in-office attendance.
- Additional in-office days as necessary.
Benefits
Merj is a welcoming, collaborative, and rewarding workspace where you will:
- Work with some of the best technical SEO experts.
- Shape how we grow through your ideas and work.
Beyond competitive remuneration, we offer:
- Annual Bonus: Performance-based bonus scheme to reward your contributions when we hit profit targets.
- Health Cash Plan: Membership to cover everyday healthcare costs, including children.
- Remote Working: Standard flexibility for remote work.
- Enhanced Leave For Tenure: Starting with 25 days plus bank holidays and increasing with tenure.
- Revolut Membership: Premium benefits including:
- Global travel and cancellation insurance.
- Airmiles and airport lounge access with 3GB of monthly travel data.
- Access to premium learning and wellness platforms.
- Conference or Volunteering Day: Dedicated time to attend industry events or support causes you care about.
- Holiday Purchase & Carryover Leave:
- Option to buy additional holiday days.
- Ability to carry over unused holiday to the next year.
- Enhanced sick pay beyond statutory requirements.
We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Applications are welcome from individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic.
If you need any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know, and we will be happy to accommodate.
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