AI Search Director Contract-to-Hire

AI Search Director Contract-to-Hire

Fantasy is a digital product and innovation company. We realize the unimagined for the world's most ambitious organizations. Founded in 1999, our global reputation is based on our teams' unique ability to think beyond the ordinary and launch ground-breaking products and services. We believe that our phenomenal team is the core reason for our success, our growth, and our thriving culture.

Collaborate with forward thinking companies like Netflix, Spotify, Ford, Asana, The Academy of Motion Pictures, Dolby, Ancestry, Salesforce, and many others. Work across diverse industries, creating solutions for automotive, luxury, travel, operating systems, website ecosystems, design for voice, artificial intelligence, and intelligent experiences.

Your Role

Fantasy is launching a new strategic AI search offering for enterprise brands. We need a Director+ who can operate at executive altitude and own our Generative / AI Search (Generative Engine Optimization / Answer Engine Optimization) offerings : set the vision, stand up pods, ship work weekly, and mature the service into a scalable program that drives revenue and authority. You'll own client strategy and satisfaction, orchestrate partners / tools, and collaborate across Product, Content, Engineering, and Data to expand AEO / GEO and adjacent agentic services. Starts as contract with a path to full-time.

What You'll Do

Enterprise Strategy & Thought Leadership : Shape the future of AEO at an enterprise scale and make Fantasy the go-to partner in the space.

• Leading engagements end-to-end : discovery, benchmarking, roadmap, and iterative execution; presenting to senior stakeholders and securing buy-in.
• Defining KPIs and reporting : visibility / coverage, citation accuracy, sentiment trends, content freshness, time-to-insight, and ROI; guiding internal teams in building dashboards and narratives.
• Building our center of excellence : documenting frameworks (intent graphs, IA for AI), playbooks, templates, and training modules; mentoring internal team.
• Representing Fantasy as a strategic voice in the AEO spacehelping define what best-in-class looks like.

Executional Excellence & Optimization : Solve for today while building toward what's next.

Operational Enablement & Ecosystem Orchestration : Build the machine that builds the futureinternally and across client ecosystems.

Qualifications

812+ years in SEO with a proven pivot into AEO / GEO / AI Search; deep experience with intent modeling, entity optimization, and answer engine behaviors.

Track record leading enterprise programs across multiple LOBs; adept at executive stakeholder management and monthly subscription / retainer models.

Hands-on practitioner who can turn data into actionable recommendations within days; deliver early wins while building durable systems.

Platform / operator mindset : experience evaluating and integrating tools like Profound / AirOps / Graphite (or equivalents) and synthesizing outputs into strategy.

Enablement leader : has built cohort trainings, role definitions, templates, and operating cadences that leave clients more self-sufficient.

Executive communication : concise storytelling, strong decks, and the ability to simplify complexity and drive decisions.

Experience with LLM-centric content engineering : structured content, schema, knowledge graphs, and prompt-safe content patterns.

Familiarity with technical remediation pathways and collaboration with dev teams.

Fantasy EOE

Fantasy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Since 1999, diversity has been vital to our success and ability to create products and services used and loved by millions of people all over the world. We are committed to continually fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace.