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We're looking for a Manager of Search Visibility & AI Discovery improve how DaVita is discovered across traditional search and AI-powered discovery experiences while helping build the foundation required for the future state of our digital ecosystem.

This is a role for someone who understands classic technical and content SEO deeply, but who is also actively experimenting with Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) – the emerging discipline of making brands, products, and content discoverable, citable, and favorably represented within AI-generated answers. You'll help drive the strategy and lead the execution and measurement of how our brand shows up across every search and discovery surface, old and new.

Success in this role over the next 12-18 months will include establishing reporting on current SEO and AI visibility and performance, documenting baselines, assessing and prioritizing top opportunities to win ranking and increase traffic, and working across teams to inform new content as well as optimize and restructure existing content to show up more favorably across both traditional SERPs and AI-generated answers.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

SEO Strategy & Execution

• Inform the SEO strategy across technical, on-page, content, and off-page (link/authority) pillars
• Conduct keyword, topic, and competitive research to identify organic growth opportunities
• Partner with content and design to prioritize, plan and execute content that ranks and converts

• Lead implementation and governance of schema, structured data, JSON-LD, crawlability, indexation, redirects, core web vitals, accessibility, and search platform health

• Oversee on-page optimization (titles, meta descriptions, internal linking, content structure) across the site
• Build and maintain a link-building strategy to grow domain authority
• Own the remediation roadmap for technical SEO issues and prioritize fixes across modernization releases rather than simply identifying issues.

GEO & AI Search Optimization

• Develop and lead the team’s strategy for visibility in AI-generated answers across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews/AI Mode, Gemini, Copilot, and other LLM-based discovery tools
• Research and apply emerging GEO best practices: structuring content for extractability, optimizing for citations, building topical authority signals that LLMs draw on, and monitoring how models retrieve and represent our brand
• Track brand mentions, sentiment, and share-of-voice within AI-generated responses; build processes to audit and correct inaccurate or missing brand representation
• Stay ahead of how retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), knowledge graphs, and LLM training/grounding data sources influence what AI tools "know" and say about the brand and category
• Pilot and evaluate new tools/platforms for AI search monitoring and optimization (e.g., AI visibility trackers, citation analysis tools)

Analytics, Reporting & Insights

• Establish DaVita's approach to AI search visibility, source citation monitoring, share of voice tracking, AI referral measurement, and GEO experimentation
• Build and operationalize the SEMRush infrastructure for SEO, GEO, and AI Visibility, including creation of clear KPI definitions, platform dashboards, monitoring, and executive/enterprise reporting
• Own day-to-day execution and vendor management for SEMrush and other search intelligence platforms, ensuring insights turn into actions and measurable outcomes
• Partner with analytics team and agency to define and report on KPIs across both traditional organic search (rankings, traffic, conversions) and AI search visibility (citation frequency, share of voice, referral traffic from AI platforms)
• Translate data into clear recommendations and present results to marketing leadership and cross-functional stakeholders
• Run structured experiments (content formats, schema types, prompt-based audits) to test what moves the needle in AI search results

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Act as the internal subject-matter expert on search and AI discovery trends, educating cross functional and leadership teams
• Drive prioritization and execution of search improvements in alignment with the website modernization roadmap and broader digital transformation strategy
• Partner with content, analytics, and development teams to ensure new site experiences are optimized for discoverability from launch, not retrofitted afterward
• Collaborate with developers on technical implementation (schema, site structure, page speed, llm.txt/robots considerations, etc.)
• Manage relationships with external agencies, freelancers, or tools as needed
   

Education and Requirements

Requirements:

• 7+ years in SEO and 6+ months of GEO/AI hands on search optimization with a proven track record of improving performance

• Hands-on experience with SEO tools (Semrush, Ahrefs, Screaming Frog) and analytics platforms (GA4, GSC, Pendo)

• Have researched and applied emerging GEO best practices: structuring content for extractability, optimizing for citations, building topical authority signals that LLMs

• Experience with visibility in AI-generated answers

• Experience owning strategy end to end, not just execution

• Can translate data into clear recommendations and present results to marketing leadership and cross-functional stakeholders

Preference For:

• Experience working in or alongside healthcare, health tech, or other regulated industries
• Familiarity with EHR integrations, clinical workflows, or patient-facing digital health web experiences
• Background working within Agile/Scrum product development environments

What We’ll Provide: 

More than just pay, our DaVita Rewards package connects teammates to what matters most. Teammates are eligible to begin receiving benefits on the first day of the month following or coinciding with one month of continuous employment. Below are some of our benefit offerings.  

• Comprehensive benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match, paid time off, PTO cash out  
• Support for you and your family: Family resources, EAP counseling sessions, access Headspace®, backup child and elder care, maternity/paternity leave and more 
• Professional development programs: DaVita offers a variety of programs to help strong performers grow within their career and also offers on-demand virtual leadership and development courses through DaVita’s online training platform StarLearning.  

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At DaVita, we strive to be a community first and a company second.  We want all teammates to experience DaVita as "a place where I belong."  Our goal is to embed belonging into everything we do in our Village, so that it becomes part of who we are. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and comply with state and federal affirmative action requirements. Individuals are recruited, hired, assigned and promoted without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

This position will be open for a minimum of three days.

Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience. DaVita offers a competitive total rewards package, which includes a 401k match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits. Learn more at https://careers.davita.com/benefits  

Colorado Residents: Please do not respond to any questions in this initial application that may seek age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You may also redact this information from any materials you submit during the application process.  You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.