The Senior SEO & AI Search Lead owns the organic discovery and content strategy for Microsoft’s digital storefront—ensuring customers find, understand, and choose Microsoft products across traditional search, AI-powered answer engines, and every global market. This is a senior individual-contributor role that blends strategy with execution: you will set and drive the organization’s point of view on SEO and Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), and personally lead the technical, content, and measurement work that brings it to life. As the organization’s authoritative voice on search, you will represent this space to senior leaders—presenting to and influencing stakeholders up to the VP level—translating the fast-moving shift toward AI-driven discovery into a clear, actionable roadmap and rallying partners across product, engineering, design, merchandising, and regional teams to deliver it. The role centers on four pillars—search strategy, global content, execution, and measurement—backed by the executive influence to make search a priority across the organization.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
SEO and AI SEO strategy:
Global content strategy:
Measurement, tooling, and vendors:
Required/minimum qualifications -
eCommerce IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $106,400 - $203,600 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $137,600 - $222,600 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
