Search & AI Discovery Architect

Build your career with Heritage Auctions, the world’s largest collectibles auctioneer.

Celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2026, Heritage Auctions has spent five decades connecting collectors with extraordinary objects and the stories behind them. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, with offices across the United States and around the world, Heritage serves more than 50 auction categories, including Coins, Sports, Comics, Entertainment, Historical, Jewelry, Fine and Decorative Art, Luxury Accessories, Wine, and many more. Join a collaborative, fast-paced company where curiosity is valued, expertise is celebrated, and every day offers an opportunity to work with remarkable pieces of history and culture.

Heritage Auctions is seeking a Search & AI Discovery Architect to make Heritage’s information easier for people and AI systems to discover, understand, trust, and cite across traditional search engines, AI-powered search, answer engines, assistants, and emerging agent ecosystems.

This role combines deep search knowledge with hands‑on technical architecture and experimentation. You will own the technical designs, information and relationship models, standards, feasibility assessments, dependencies, implementation guidance, and validation that support Heritage’s search and AI‑discovery strategy. You will personally build prototypes and reference implementations, then partner with Engineering to turn validated approaches into production capabilities.

As part of our Enterprise AI team, reporting to the Manager, Enterprise AI, you will work closely with the SEO and AEO Strategy Manager, who owns commercial strategy, growth priorities, the delivery backlog, and business outcomes. You will advise and influence the growth roadmap through technical evidence and emerging capabilities.

Success means making Heritage a more accessible and trusted source for auctions, collectibles, valuations, provenance, historical objects, and market intelligence while preserving the meaning and accuracy of its information. In partnership with the SEO and AEO Strategy Manager, you will support improved visibility and citations for strategic topics and a measurable contribution to qualified traffic, registrations, consignments, bidding activity, purchases, and revenue

• Medical, Dental, Vision coverage
• Paid time off
• 401k savings plans
• Onsite gym with access to a personal trainer

COMPENSATION:
Commensurate on experience

LOCATION:

South of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, NW corner of W. Airport Freeway (Hwy. 183) and Valley View Lane

• Define, document, and govern technical standards for crawlability, indexing, rendering, canonical URLs, metadata, internal linking, structured data, content architecture, and search performance. Maintain reusable implementation patterns that reduce ambiguity and repeated research. Assess how Heritage’s inventory, archives, specialist expertise, and market data are exposed to search engines and AI systems, and identify barriers to accurate discovery, retrieval, attribution, and citation.
• Develop information models, reusable schema patterns, and knowledge and relationship graphs that distinguish an object from its auction appearances, an active offering from a historical auction result, and an estimate from a realized price. Preserve provenance, relevant dates, price definitions, and reliable links between records. Work with Heritage specialists, Data Services, and Engineering to validate entity definitions, attributes, identifiers, and relationships.
  
  Validate that discovery outputs preserve these distinctions.
• Translate business priorities into clear technical designs, requirements, dependencies, tradeoffs, and acceptance criteria for Product and…