Founding SEO Specialist

Cintra is an AI-native agency that helps ecommerce and B2B SaaS brands get recommended by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI search results. We have paying clients, zero churn, and a small team building in a category most agencies haven't figured out yet. This is a founding role, not a job.

What you'll actually do
You'll own SEO and AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) execution across our client portfolio — ecommerce brands and B2B SaaS companies that need to show up not just in Google, but in AI-generated answers.

SEO & AEO Execution (this is the core)

• Run technical SEO audits, keyword strategy, on-page optimization, and content planning for ecommerce product catalogs and B2B SaaS sites
• Build and execute link acquisition strategies — you know what works, what's a waste of money, and how to get results without a massive budget
• Optimize product pages, collection pages, and landing pages for both traditional search and AI retrieval — structured data, content depth, entity coverage
• Track rankings, traffic, and (critically) AI citation performance across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews
• Translate SEO/AEO performance into client-facing reports that brand owners actually understand and care about

Client & Growth (because it's a 3-person company)

• Own client relationships alongside delivery — you're not handing off to an account manager, you are the account manager
• Join sales calls when prospects need to hear from someone who actually knows SEO, not just someone who can sell it
• Help convert our pipeline by speaking credibly about what we do and why it works

Building the Agent That Replaces Manual SEO

• Here's what makes this different from every other SEO role: you're not just doing SEO — you're building the AI agent that does what you do. Every workflow you run, every audit you execute, every optimization pattern you find — you'll codify it into a full-stack SEO/AEO agent that Cintra deploys at scale across every client
• Work directly with our technical team to turn your expertise into automated systems — you bring the SEO knowledge, we build the infrastructure around it
• The goal is clear: your manual work today becomes the training data and logic for the agent that runs tomorrow. You're not being replaced — you're the person who decides what the agent does and how it thinks

You're a great fit if you

• Have 2–4 years of hands-on SEO experience, ideally across ecommerce (Shopify, product catalog optimization, collection pages) and/or B2B SaaS (programmatic SEO, landing page strategy, content-led growth)
• Can run a technical audit and actually fix things — site architecture, internal linking, schema markup, crawl issues, page speed. Not just flag problems in a Screaming Frog export, but prioritize and execute
• Have built or executed link acquisition strategies that produced measurable results, not just "we submitted to directories"
• Understand content strategy at the page level — you know why a product page ranks or doesn't, what makes a comparison page convert in AI search, and how content depth maps to retrieval
• Are already deep in AI tools — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity aren't novelties for you, they're part of how you work. You've noticed AI is changing search and you have opinions about it
• Can communicate with non-technical brand owners without jargon-dumping or oversimplifying — you make clients feel smart, not confused
• Have worked at a startup or small agency where you owned outcomes, not just tasks. Bonus if you've been part of a 0-to-1 build

This is NOT for you if

• Your SEO experience is limited to "I wrote blog posts and someone else handled technical"
• You need established processes handed to you — we're building them
• You've only worked at large agencies where you owned one channel or one client
• You think AI search is a trend you'll "keep an eye on" rather than something that's already reshaping how brands get discovered
• You want predictable 9-to-5 hours at a company this early

Why Cintra

• The category is real and early. AI search is pulling market share from traditional search. Brands that show up in ChatGPT and Perplexity recommendations are winning. Most agencies are still figuring out what AEO even means — we're already doing it, with paying clients and measurable results.
• You're not just doing SEO — you're building the system. Most SEO roles ask you to execute the same playbook forever. This one asks you to execute it once, then turn it into an AI agent that runs at scale. Your expertise becomes product.
• You'll have real ownership. This isn't "SEO specialist reports to SEO manager reports to VP." You'll shape the methodology, the agent's logic, and the company.
• The team is small and sharp. Founder-led, no bureaucracy, decisions happen fast.