AI Search and Discovery Lead

Job description

ABOUT MODERN TREASURY Modern Treasury provides trusted infrastructure for money movement. The company helps teams launch and scale payment experiences in days, not months. With best-in-class developer tools and a single API for fiat and stablecoins—plus built-in compliance, ledgering, and reporting—Modern Treasury enables businesses to move money instantly, reliably, and at scale. ABOUT THE ROLE As money movement becomes more programmable, buyers increasingly need guidance on how to evaluate, architect, and operate payment infrastructure. Search and AI systems are becoming a critical part of that discovery journey. We’re hiring an SEO & AI Search Discovery Lead to help shape how the market discovers and evaluates Modern Treasury. This role is centered on what content we create, where it lives, and how it drives discovery across both traditional search and AI-native answer engines. You will define the topics, formats, and surfaces that make Modern Treasury the authoritative source on payment infrastructure, orchestration, and PSP architecture. That includes our owned content, the developer and operator communities where buyers gather (HackerNews, Reddit, etc.), and the third-party platforms (G2, TrustRadius, YouTube, etc) that LLMs and search engines treat as authority signals. Winning in 2026 means showing up authoritatively across all of these surfaces, not just on moderntreasury.com http://moderntreasury.com. You will partner closely with our design engineer, who supports technical SEO execution. Your job is to set the strategy and build the content, ecosystem, and authority standards. Their job is to make the platform deliver on them. This is an individual contributor role for someone who understands technical buyer journeys, infrastructure storytelling, content ecosystems, and how to win organic discovery in the AI era. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Own AEO strategy across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews - Map and optimize Modern Treasury's presence across the full LLM-ingested ecosystem (HackerNews, Reddit, G2, TrustRadius, YouTube etc.) to improve AI-driven discoverability and citation weight - Define and own the topic cluster and authority map for Modern Treasury's core categories: payment orchestration, PSP architecture, ACH and RTP infrastructure, stablecoin rails, ledger systems, reconciliation, embedded payments, sub-account systems, multi-rail money movement - Build evaluation content for technical and operational buyers, build vs. buy frameworks, comparison pages, architecture guides, implementation patterns - Partner with founders, executives, and engineering SMEs to translate product and market shifts into authoritative content - Own SEO and AEO performance analytics, connecting organic performance to pipeline and revenue - Partner with a design engineer on technical SEO standards, schema, and structured data. You set the standard, they own execution. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - 6 to 8 years in SEO, content strategy, or organic growth, ideally at modern B2B SaaS, fintech, infrastructure, API, or developer-tool companies - Proven track record growing qualified organic traffic and pipeline through content strategy, not just technical fixes - Strong perspective on how search is evolving in the AI era, with hands-on experience or active experimentation in AEO - Highly analytical, comfortable working in large datasets to identify trends, diagnose performance shifts, and quantify opportunity - Hands-on experience with enterprise SEO tools such as Ahrefs, Profound, or similar - Strong understanding of technical buyer journeys, including how developers, payment ops, and finance buyers evaluate infrastructure - Ability to write. The senior IC bar at Modern Treasury includes shipping content, not just briefing it Modern Treasury is committed to equal employment opportunity and does not discriminate in any employment opportunities or practices based on an individual's race, color, creed, gender (including gender identity and gender expression), religion (all aspects of religious beliefs, observance or practice, including religious dress or grooming practices), marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry (including language use restrictions and possession of a driver’s license issued under California Vehicle Code section 12801.9), natural hair, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, medical condition (including cancer or a record or history of cancer, and genetic characteristics), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical condition), genetic information, sexual orientation, military and veteran status or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. It also prohibits unlawful discrimination based on the perception that anyone has any of those characteristics, or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics. Modern Treasury participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.