At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead SEO content and AI search optimisation to enhance ad performance and landing page relevance.
- Company: Join a dynamic team at a leading travel tech company focused on innovation.
- Benefits: Enjoy travel perks, generous time-off, flexible work, and career development resources.
- Other info: Collaborative environment with opportunities for growth and experimentation.
- Why this job: Make an impact in the evolving world of AI-driven search and ads.
- Qualifications: Experience in SEO and a passion for learning about SEM and AI technologies.
The predicted salary is between 50000 - 65000 £ per year.
We’re hiring a Manager, SEO Content & AI Search Optimization (SEM) to sit within the SEM team and focus on optimizing the content used by AI‑powered search and ads – features that enhance query matching, dynamically optimize ad creatives, and refine landing page targeting for search campaigns. This is a high‑visibility individual contributor role partnering closely with SEM, SEO, Product & Tech, Analytics, and our external media partners.
In this role, you will:
- Own the intersection of SEO content and AI‑powered SEM asset optimization.
- Evaluate how search and ad platforms use our landing page content to generate creative and select final URLs.
- Identify opportunities to improve messaging so it works for both SEO and SEM while remaining on‑brand and compliant.
- Collaborate with SEO and AI search teams on testing and optimizing meta elements and on‑page content used by AI‑driven search and ad features.
- Help shape a shared experimentation roadmap across search snippets and landing pages to improve relevance and performance.
- Work with SEM Ops and Analytics to define hypotheses, design tests (A/B, multivariants), and build robust measurement frameworks for messaging and landing‑page strategies.
- Translate experiment results into clear recommendations and scalable playbooks.
- Act as a primary SEM/SEO point of contact in product discussions with key search partners, providing structured feedback, feature requests, and requirements.
- Help evaluate and validate new AI capabilities that improve control, transparency, and reporting for large‑scale advertisers.
- Partner with analytics and data engineering to design dashboards and reporting that track adoption and performance of AI‑powered search features and related tests.
- Use SQL to independently query large datasets and validate insights, and leverage Python to analyze large‑scale data and monitor changes in AI‑driven behavior over time.
- Write clear, concise documentation: briefs, test plans, experiment read‑outs, operating guidelines, and FAQs that make complex AI behavior understandable to non‑experts.
- Lead recurring forums and working sessions with SEM, SEO, Product & Tech, Analytics, and external partners to align on roadmap, status, and decisions.
- Experiment with LLMs and AI agents to automate repetitive work (e.g., content audits, clustering, pattern detection, test ideation) and scale your impact.
- Share best practices and help the team adopt AI responsibly and effectively.
Experience and qualifications:
- Extensive experience in SEO (technical and/or content): title tags, meta descriptions, schema, internal linking, and how search engines evaluate landing pages.
- Comfortable collaborating on continuous testing and optimization of SEO content in partnership with product and engineering.
- SEM experience is a plus, but not required – you’re excited to learn how search ads work (keywords, match types, Quality Score, landing page experience, bidding, etc.) and how AI‑powered search features are reshaping the landscape.
- Experience as a product‑adjacent PM, growth/marketing PM, or similar IC operating at manager‑level scope – independently building and executing a roadmap across multiple stakeholders in marketing and product environments.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to query and analyze data using SQL.
- Proven track record designing experiments and making decisions based on data, not anecdotes.
- Able to translate complex technical and AI concepts into clear narratives for marketers, engineers, and leadership.
- Excellent written communication skills; you naturally create documentation that others rely on as a source of truth.
- Hands‑on experience with generative AI tools and a strong interest in using or orchestrating AI agents to augment your work.
Benefits:
We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time‑off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey.
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