Search & AI Discovery Architect

Description

Heritage Auctions is seeking a Search & AI Discovery Architect to make Heritage’s information easier for people and AI systems to discover, understand, trust, and cite across traditional search engines, AI-powered search, answer engines, assistants, and emerging agent ecosystems.

• Experience in technical SEO, web architecture, digital marketing technology, organic growth, or a related discipline, with strong knowledge of crawlability, indexing, website structure, metadata, canonicalization, and search performance.

• Broad technical understanding of front-end websites, back-end systems, structured data, APIs, data flows, and AI-discovery integrations.

• Ability to build and test prototypes and reference implementations and translate them into practical implementation guidance.

• Ability to model entities and relationships clearly and preserve the meaning of complex information across systems.

• Familiarity with AI-powered search, large language models, answer engines, and emerging discovery practices.

• Ability to translate business and marketing objectives into technical requirements and explain capabilities, constraints, and tradeoffs to technical and nontechnical partners.

• Experience partnering with developers, data engineers, product or project managers, marketers, and business stakeholders.

• Strong analytical, research, communication, and problem-solving skills, including the judgment to evaluate unfamiliar technologies and recommend a practical path forward.

• A strong sense of ownership for technical outcomes, including proactively identifying opportunities, surfacing risks, resolving gaps, and following work through validation.

• Experience implementing or guiding schema, structured-data, knowledge-graph, or entity-modeling initiatives.

• Familiarity with answer engine optimization (AEO), generative engine optimization (GEO), entity authority, or LLM visibility measurement.

• Working knowledge of JavaScript-rendered websites, content management systems, APIs, data feeds, and modern web architecture.

• Familiarity with agent integrations, MCP, or other methods for making organizational content available to external AI systems.

• Experience with Google Analytics, Google Search Console, Semrush, Ahrefs, Adobe Analytics, Salesforce, Robohead, or similar platforms.

• Experience with marketplaces, ecommerce, luxury goods, auctions, collectibles, or other expertise-driven industries

Heritage Auctions welcomes and encourages applications from women, minorities, veterans, mature workers, and persons with disabilities. EOE