Sr. Manager, AI Search & Discoverability

<p style="text-align:left"><b>Work Schedule</b></p>Standard (Mon-Fri)<p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:left"><b>Environmental Conditions</b></p>Office<p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:left"><b><u>Job Description</u></b></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p>As part of the Customer Marketing Organization, the Senior Manager, AI Search &amp; Discoverability will join the Performance Marketing organization to lead Thermo Fisher’s evolution in AI-driven, and generative search, ensuring our brands, products, and expertise are discoverable across both traditional search engines and emerging AI-powered experiences.</p><p></p><p>This role combines strategic leadership with operational oversight, shaping how Thermo Fisher appears across intelligent search surfaces. The ideal candidate brings deep technical search expertise, a strong understanding of generative and answer-engine ecosystems, and a passion for innovation at enterprise scale. This leader will collaborate closely with Product, Divisional Marketing, Digital Technology, Analytics, Content, and Media teams to drive visibility, accuracy, and long-term discoverability while future-proofing our search strategy.</p><p></p><p><b>What will you do?</b></p><ul><li>Lead and develop a multi-disciplinary AI search organization, including AEO/GEO, shared services, and technical intelligent search teams.</li><li>Define and execute enterprise strategies across Thermo Fisher’s digital ecosystem, ensuring visibility across discovery platforms.</li><li>Translate evolving AI search, SERP, and LLM trends into scalable standards, governance, and frameworks.</li><li>Partner with Product, Divisional Digital, IT/DT, Analytics, and Channel teams to align discoverability priorities with business and demand generation objectives.</li><li>Oversee technical search health, including crawlability, rendering, schema/structure, and AI-specific markup.</li><li>Direct AI-ready content strategies, including content briefs, topic prioritization, and optimization.</li><li>Establish and oversee AI visibility monitoring, including presence in AI summaries, citations, misinformation intake, and LLM accuracy checks.</li><li>Own reporting frameworks and dashboards for AI visibility performance, communicating insights, risks, and opportunities to senior leadership.</li><li>Drive innovation through partnerships advancing automation, tooling, and AI-search measurement capabilities.</li><li>Serve as a senior subject-matter expert for AI-driven search and discoverability best practices.</li><li>Manage external vendors and partners supporting technical search, AI visibility, and optimization initiatives.</li></ul><p></p><p><b>Education</b></p><ul><li>Bachelor’s in marketing, data/IT, or related field; Master’s preferred</li></ul><p></p><p><b><span>Experience</span></b></p><ul><li>10&#43; years of technical digital discoverability experience, with 4&#43; years leading multi-team or enterprise-scale initiatives.</li><li>Deep expertise in technical search, including schema/structured data, site migrations, performance, and AI-readiness.</li><li>Experience optimizing for AI-driven and generative search platforms, including answer engines and LLM-based discovery.</li><li>Proven ability to adapt strategies to algorithm changes, evolving SERP formats, and emerging AI search behaviors.</li><li>Strong cross-functional leadership experience within matrixed, global organizations.</li><li>Proficiency with enterprise digital tools (GSC, SEMrush, Screaming Frog, Looker Studio, Adobe, CMS platforms).</li><li>B2B or Life Sciences experience; familiarity with scientific or technical content strongly preferred.</li></ul><p></p><p><b>Knowledge, Skills, Abilities</b></p><ul><li>Ability to work effectively with remote and global teams across time zones.</li><li>Strong stakeholder influence skills; able to communicate complex technical concepts to executive audiences.</li><li>Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously.</li><li>Strong written and verbal communication, project management, and documentation skills.</li><li>Working proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and Microsoft Teams.</li></ul><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>