About OptimizeGEO
OptimizeGEO.ai is a category-defining platform helping brands stay visible and discoverable in AI-powered answers. Unlike traditional SEO that optimizes for keywords and rankings, OptimizeGEO operationalizes Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) ensuring brands are mentioned, cited, and trusted by generative systems like ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude, as well as answer engines such as featured snippets, voice search, and AI answer boxes.
Founded by industry veterans Kirthiga Reddy (ex-Meta, MD Facebook India) and Saurabh Doshi (ex-Meta, ex-Viacom), and backed by Micron Ventures, Better Capital, FalconX, and leading angels including Randi Zuckerberg, Vani Kola, and Harsh Jain.
Location: Remote - US / Mexico time zones
Department: Sales & Business Development
Employment Type: Full-time
Reports to: Agency Lead - USA
Compensation: Competitive
Plus: Performance-based commission (uncapped)
Role Overview
As a Strategic Account Manager, you will serve as a strategic partner to clients across North America and LATAM, helping them translate OptimizeGEO’s capabilities into measurable business value. This is primarily a client success and account growth role for someone who can build trust with marketing, SEO, content, and digital teams, lead thoughtful strategic conversations, and ensure clients see OptimizeGEO as an important part of their search and visibility strategy.
You will own and grow a portfolio of client relationships, guiding onboarding, adoption, renewals, and expansion opportunities. You will help clients identify where GEO fits within their existing SEO, content, and digital programs, and turn that understanding into clear plans, stakeholder alignment, and long-term success.
Pre-sales support is also an important part of the role. While this is not a pure sales position, you will partner with the commercial team on select discovery calls, pitches, demos, and solution conversations, bringing client perspective, strategic thinking, and technical credibility to help prospects understand how OptimizeGEO can support their goals.
What Success Looks Like (First 12 Months)
In the first 12 months, success should be measured first by strong client outcomes: healthy onboarding, steady adoption, renewals, expansion, and visible client advocacy Success also means becoming a named strategic partner to client teams and a reliable internal voice who can support high-value pre-sales conversations when domain expertise and client context matter most.
- Grow and retain a healthy portfolio of client accounts through renewals, upsells, and cross-sells.
- Build strong stakeholder relationships across marketing, SEO, content, and digital teams.
- Create referenceable client outcomes, including testimonials, case studies, and strategic wins.
- Support selective pre-sales opportunities with thoughtful discovery, demos, and solution input.
- Help strengthen OptimizeGEO’s market presence across North America and LATAM
Key Responsibilities
- Own a portfolio of client relationships across onboarding, adoption, retention, renewal, and expansion.
- Act as a trusted strategic partner to marketing, SEO, content, and digital stakeholders, helping clients understand where OptimizeGEO can create value.
- Build account plans that align business priorities, stakeholder needs, and GEO opportunities into clear next steps.
- Lead strategic reviews and working sessions that connect GEO outcomes to client goals and commercial impact.
- Translate OptimizeGEO insights into practical recommendations clients can act on across search, content, and AI visibility programs.
- Hold credible conversations with client SEO and marketing teams, bridging traditional SEO understanding with emerging GEO strategy.
- Support the commercial team on select discovery calls, pitches, demos, and proposal conversations where client context and technical fluency are especially valuable.
What We're Looking For
Experience
- 3–6 years in client success, account management, strategic consulting, solutions, or other customer-facing roles in MarTech, SEO, analytics, SaaS, or digital marketing.
- Experience managing and growing client relationships through renewals, upsells, cross-sells, and long-term strategic partnership.
- Exposure to pre-sales, solutioning, discovery, or pitch support in a client-facing commercial environment.
- Confidence working with both internal teams and external stakeholders in fast-moving, high-accountability environments.
Strategic Partnership
- Able to act as a trusted advisor, not just a point of contact
- Strong at understanding client goals, identifying where OptimizeGEO can help, and shaping practical plans that align with internal priorities
- Comfortable working across marketing, SEO, content, and digital stakeholders to drive alignment and momentum
- Thoughtful, consultative, and measured in how client relationships are managed.
Technical & Domain Knowledge
- Strong understanding of SEO fundamentals, including keywords, rankings, SERPs, technical SEO, site structure, and content strategy
- Familiarity with Generative Engine Optimization and AI search across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude
- Ability to bridge traditional SEO programs into newer GEO strategies in a way that is practical and credible for clients.
- Working knowledge of GA4 and Google Search Console, and how visibility maps to traffic and revenue
- Ability to translate SEO and GEO insights into clear, persuasive narratives for marketers, growth teams, and business stakeholders
- Able to hold credible technical conversations with in-house SEO and marketing teams, then translate those discussions into clear recommendations
Core Competencies
- Strong communicator: Consultative, credible, and persuasive across written and verbal communication
- Strong partner: Collaborative, trusted, and effective across internal teams and client stakeholders.
- Considered operator: High initiative, strong judgment, and calm follow-through in ambiguous environments
- Commercially aware: Understands account growth, stakeholder management, renewal dynamics, and where selective pre-sales support can accelerate opportunity.
- Credible expert: Comfortable representing OptimizeGEO in both strategic and technical conversations
Nice to Have
- Background on either the agency side or SaaS side of digital marketing.
- An existing network within the Mexican or LATAM marketing and agency ecosystem
- Hands-on experience using AI tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Gemini in a professional context.
Why OptimizeGEO?
At OptimizeGEO, this role is not just about account management. It is about helping define how brands understand and improve visibility in the next era of search, with meaningful ownership, direct exposure to leadership, and the chance to shape client strategy in a category that is still being built.
What we offer:
- Competitive base plus uncapped, performance-based commission.
- Remote-first, flexible culture across US time zones.
- Mentorship from experienced sales and marketing leaders.
- Real ownership and career upside as we scale a new region.
Equal Opportunity
OptimizeGEO is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
How to Apply
Send your CV and a short note (3–5 sentences) on why you're excited to sell OptimizeGEO.ai globally to hr@optimizegeo.ai.
Subject line: Application — Strategic Account Manager (OptimizeGEO) — <Your Name>