SEO/AEO Intern
Golden Hippo
| Company | Golden Hippo |
| Category | Marketing |
| Location | Woodland Hills |
| Remote | On-site (inferred) |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Intern |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 16 Jul 2026 |
| Last verified | 3 Aug 2026 |
| Source | Employer ATS (greenhouse) |
Description
Where A-Players Thrive.
We’re an employee-owned, vertically-integrated builder of some of America’s most popular health & wellness brands. With over 1,000 team members across multiple companies, we create best-in-class products that help make the world healthier and happier. Our creative content educates the world on making smarter health choices, while the brands we own generate over $600 million of revenue annually. Learn more about our brands. We’re Looking For A: SEO/AEO Intern
Location: Hybrid (Woodland Hills, CA)
Program Dates:
Start Date: September 14th
End Date: December 10th
Workload: Part-time, 25-29 hours/week
What You’ll Be Doing: The SEO/AEO Intern will assist in implementing cutting-edge, organic visibility strategies designed to capture market share across both traditional search engines and generative AI answer engines (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Gemini). By executing data-driven optimization workflows and auditing AI brand mentions, the intern will develop a dual-threat foundation in advanced SEO & Answer Engine Optimization (AEO). This critical role ensures our brand properties remain highly discoverable, authoritative, and cited during leadership's planned absence.
Conversational Keyword & Intent Research: Move beyond flat keyword volume to analyze conversational, multi-layered user queries and extract natural, question-based search intent.
Syntactic Restructuring for AEO: Optimize content using an "answer-first" architecture, crafting concise, high-density direct answers (40–60 words), explicit tables, and structured FAQ sections that AI LLMs can easily parse and ingest.
Advanced Schema & Technical Optimization: Assist in deploying machine-readable technical elements, including structured data (FAQPage, HowTo, and Product Schema) to drive rich snippets and direct AI engine citations.
AI Visibility & Citation Tracking: Monitor and analyze brand presence, citation share, and entity authority across major generative search summaries and traditional SERPs using Ahrefs Brand Radar or other similar tools (i.e. Profound).
AI-Assisted Content Strategy: Utilize AI tools to scale content discovery and identify optimization gaps while strictly maintaining human oversight for quality control, E-E-A-T (Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness), and brand voice.
Backlinking Authority Building: Support efforts to build entity authority and consistency across third-party databases, knowledge graphs, and industry citation, primarily through backlinking opportunities.
Core Web Vitals: Support our brand websites Core Web Vitals scores and show consistent improvement Month-over-Month (MoM).
Optimize Site Health: Using Ahrefs, ensure our brand websites are 95% or higher site health per Site Audit Tool within Ahrefs.
Qualifications (Note: We strongly encourage you to apply even if you don’t tick ALL of these boxes.):
Analytical & Strategic Mindset: Exceptional ability to interpret multi-platform data sets (search patterns, click-less impressions, AI citations) and translate them into actionable optimizations.
AEO & Format Savvy: Clear understanding of how LLMs and information retrieval systems weigh factors like "information gain," factual density, and semantic structure.
AI Tool Literate: Familiarity with leveraging GenAI platforms (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, or Perplexity) for research, optimization, or basic prompt engineering.
Strong Communication & Collaboration: Ability to seamlessly communicate insights across content and development workflows.
Platform Experience: Experience navigating WordPress (preferred) alongside industry-standard tools like JIRA, Google Search Console, Google Analytics, and SEO suites (Ahrefs, Semrush).
Bachelor's degree, or equivalent related experience
SEO / Marketing experience (preferred)
Golden Perks & Benefits:
Through our charity