Manager, SEO AEO

Veeam is the Data and AI Trust Company, specializing in helping organizations ensure their data and AI are fully understood, secured, and resilient to enable the acceleration of safe AI  the market leader in both data resilience and data security posture management, Veeam is built for the convergence of identity, data, security, and AI risk. Headquartered in Seattle with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide, who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running.

Join us as we go fearlessly forward together, growing, learning, and making a real impact for some of the world’s biggest brands.

Veeam is evolving beyond data protection into a broader platform spanning data security, identity, and AItrust. We are looking for a Manager, AEO/SEO to help lead the strategy, execution, and team responsible for organic discovery across traditional search, AI answer engines, and generative search experiences.

This person will play a key role in shaping how Veeam shows up across Google, AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, Claude, and other emerging discovery platforms. The role requires a leader who can combine enterprise SEO maturity, AI search strategy, technical depth, analytical rigor, and team leadership.

This is a strategic and hands‑on role. The right person will be able to translate strategy into clear execution plans, guide team priorities, partner closely with agency resources, support KPI development, and drive work across web, content, product marketing, comms, campaigns, analytics, and technical teams. The goal is to make Veeam more discoverable, more authoritative, more citable, and more recommended across the places where enterprise buyers now search, compare, and make decisions.

• Lead SEO/AEO Strategy and
  
  Roadmap:
  
  Define and lead Veeam's global SEO, AEO, and AI search strategy—translating business priorities into measurable organic discovery programs across markets, personas, product lines, and buying stages; support roadmap development covering technical SEO, content optimization, AI answer visibility, entity authority, competitive share of voice, and always‑on performance; partner with leadership to operationalize how SEO/AEO supports launches, campaigns, thought leadership, and web experiences.
• Lead the Team and Manage Execution:
  Manage, coach, and develop the SEO/AEO team—setting priorities, assigning ownership, managing capacity, and creating clarity around roles and decision‑making. Build repeatable frameworks and governance models for keyword strategy, prompt tracking, technical audits, content briefs, launch measurement, AI visibility reporting, and competitive monitoring. Manage agency and vendor relationships for strategic output; raise the standard of SEO/AEO work across Veeam by educating stakeholders and embedding best practices into content, web, and campaign planning.
• Drive Technical SEO and Site Authority at Enterprise Scale:
  Own the technical SEO roadmap in partnership with Web, IT, UX, Engineering, Analytics, and Digital—prioritizing initiatives that improve crawlability, indexation, site speed, structured data, internal linking, information architecture, content discoverability, and conversion paths. Ensure Veeam's web ecosystem is built for both traditional search engines and AI‑driven retrieval systems. Translate complex technical issues into business impact and secure cross‑functional alignment for implementation.
• Build Veeam's AI Search and Answer‑Engine Discipline:
  Define how Veeam measures and improves visibility across AI search and answer engines—supporting prompt strategy and partnering with Marketing Ops on AI visibility tracking, answer sentiment, citation analysis, competitive monitoring, and recommendation‑rate measurement. Identify where Veeam is missing, misrepresented, under‑cited, or under‑recommended in AI‑generated answers; partner cross‑functionally to strengthen the authority signals AI systems rely on. Ensure Veeam content is structured to be clear, extractable, evidence‑led, and aligned to how enterprise buyers ask questions.
• Connect Organic Discovery to Business Impact:
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