Contract Marketing Strategist (SEO / AEO / Social) — 8 weeks

Contract: 8-week marketing strategist for a US physical-space company ZenSpace makes physical space more useful: easier to deploy, book, operate, and monetize. We have two public divisions. ZenSpace Event Solutions rents temporary meeting pods and event booking experiences to organizers and exhibitors for US trade shows, conferences, and live events. Venues host the install. We do not sell permanent pods. ZenSpace Platform is hardware-agnostic software and IoT for meeting rooms, pods, and other shared spaces. ZenCore and ZenEdge are live. ZenAI is in development. We already have a graphic designer, a video producer, AI tools, and a MarTech person who can build agentic workflows. What we do not have is the strategist who decides what to say, which buyer, and what must never ship. This is an 8-week, 15 to 20 hour per week contract. You will work live with the founder in Pacific Time and leave a system the existing team can run. You will: - Keep Event Solutions and Platform as separate demand systems. Never collapse them into one brand story. - Treat compatible hardware (including Alcove, Silen, Hushoffice) as hardware, not as a ZenSpace division. - Run an AEO and SEO audit: who ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google cite today for our buyer questions. - Write the positioning operating system and the not-to-say list. - Prioritize the first pages and answer-first templates. - Write four weeks of social briefs for design and video. No posting from a blank calendar. - Spec the workflows for our MarTech person. - Leave a measurement plan based on AI citations and branded search, not likes. You will not: - Invent revenue, ARR, prices, ROI, utilization, partnerships, or customer relationships. - Call Alcove a ZenSpace division, sister company, or exclusive supplier. - Say Event Solutions rents to venues, convention centers, or hotels. Organizers and exhibitors rent. Venues host. - Say Event Solutions sells permanent pods. - Treat ZenAI as generally available. - Produce a pile of AI blogs and call it strategy. Must-haves: - You have shipped US B2B marketing in events, venues, workplace or commercial real estate, or B2B SaaS. - You can point to an SEO or AEO system you designed, not a content calendar you filled, with proof it improved search or AI citations. - You can show proven success building a large social media following (named channels, growth you can source, not vanity screenshots you cannot explain). - You can write English that a model would quote. - You can work at least 4 overlapping hours with Pacific Time. - You have directed a remote designer and video person. Nice-to-haves: marketplace or rental GTM, hardware-plus-software companies, prior work with AI search citations. Location: Remote. US and Canada preferred. Applicants worldwide are welcome. You must overlap Pacific Time at least 4 hours a day, three live sessions a week. To apply, send: 1. A strategy artifact you wrote for a US B2B company (deck or doc). 2. One page: how you would keep Event Solutions and Platform from collapsing into one brand in search and in AI answers. 3. Proof of social-following growth and of an SEO or AEO system you designed (links, not claims). 4. Your rate, weekly hours, timezone, and earliest start. 5. Links to two pieces of English writing you own. Compensation: Propose your rate for 15 to 20 hours a week over an 8-week contract. Paid 3-day diagnostic before kickoff. Independents preferred. No ranking guarantees. No "we will post 30 times a week" retainers.