AEO and SEO Specialist to Grow AI Search Visibility, Backlinks, and Content for B2B SaaS

About Melurna Melurna is a B2B SaaS startup in the data privacy and compliance space. Our platform is Agentic Compliance Intelligence: AI based privacy intelligence that discovers, traces, and scores third party and fourth party privacy risk across an enterprise's vendors. We help security, privacy, and compliance teams see how sensitive data and PII move through their vendor ecosystem and stay aligned with frameworks like GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and NIST. Our buyers are CISOs, privacy officers, GRC leaders, and cyber risk executives at mid market and enterprise organizations. Please review melurna.com before applying. The Goal We are an early stage company and we are close to invisible in both traditional search and AI search today. We want to change that. We are hiring an experienced SEO and AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) specialist to build our organic presence from the ground up and to make Melurna a brand that AI answer engines consistently cite when people ask about third party privacy risk, vendor risk management, and data privacy compliance. This is hands on execution work, not advice only. We want someone who will research, produce or guide content, build real backlinks, fix technical issues, and report on results. What Success Looks Like Melurna gets cited and recommended inside answers from ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Microsoft Copilot for our core topics. We rank on page one of Google for a defined set of commercial and informational keywords in the privacy and compliance category. We publish a steady stream of high quality content and grow a backlink profile from credible, relevant domains. Organic traffic, qualified demo requests, and branded search demand all grow month over month. Scope of Work 1. Audit and Strategy Run a full technical SEO and AEO audit of melurna.com. Benchmark our current visibility across Google and the major AI answer engines, and show where competitors are cited and we are not. Deliver a prioritized 90 day roadmap that explains what comes first and what you would deliberately not prioritize yet. 2. AI Answer Engine Optimization (AEO and GEO) Optimize existing pages for AI discoverability, citation, and answer extraction. Implement entity based optimization and strengthen E-E-A-T signals (Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness). Build FAQ, Q and A, and knowledge style content structured for AI retrieval and featured snippets. Add and improve schema markup and structured data. 3. Content and Topical Authority Plan and produce or direct a content program (blog, resource hub, pillar pages, and content clusters) around third party privacy risk, vendor risk management, PII data mapping, and privacy compliance. Build topical authority with a semantic SEO approach that targets both buyer intent and informational queries. 4. Link Building and Digital PR Build a clean, white hat backlink profile from authoritative, relevant sites. Secure guest posts, digital PR placements, and citations on reputable industry, security, and privacy publications. No spammy link networks, PBNs, or low quality directories. 5. Technical SEO Improve site architecture, internal linking, indexation, page speed, and Core Web Vitals. Make sure the site is structured so both search crawlers and AI systems can read and trust it. 6. Reporting Deliver a clear monthly report covering keyword rankings, AI citation growth, backlinks earned, content published, organic traffic, and recommendations for the next month. Deliverables A combined technical SEO and AEO audit. An AI search visibility benchmark report. A prioritized 90 day roadmap. A content plan with target keywords and a publishing calendar. A link building plan and a running list of links earned. Monthly performance reports. Tools We Expect You to Know Ahrefs or SEMrush, Google Search Console, Google Analytics (GA4), Screaming Frog, schema and structured data tools, and at least one AI visibility or AI rank tracking platform. Who You Are You have proven SEO experience plus recent, real experience with AEO and GEO, not just traditional SEO. You have worked with B2B or SaaS clients, ideally in a technical, security, privacy, or compliance niche. You can show measurable results: rankings, traffic, backlinks, and AI citations you actually moved. You write clearly in English and understand a technical, enterprise audience. How to Apply (please read this carefully) We are getting a high volume of generic, copy and paste, and AI generated proposals, and we will not consider them. To show us you actually read this and looked at our site, please do all of the following: Do not cold call us. If you cold call, you will be accepted. Start your proposal with the word PRIVACY-SIGNAL so we know you read to the end. In two or three sentences, and in your own words, tell us what Melurna does and who you think our buyer is, based on melurna.com. Name one specific thing you would change or add to melurna.com in your first two weeks, and why. Share two or three case studies with links, including at least one where you improved AEO or AI search visibility, or earned real backlinks. Screenshots of rankings, traffic, or AI citations are welcome. Tell us which tools you use to track AI search visibility. Give us your realistic weekly or monthly capacity and your pricing. Please do not send a generic SEO pitch, a list of services, or a proposal that does not reference Melurna specifically. Proposals that ignore the steps above will be declined without a reply. We look forward to thoughtful proposals from people who understand both classic SEO and the new world of AI search.