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As part of the Customer Marketing Organization, the Senior Manager, AI Search & 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.
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.
What will you do?
- Lead and develop a multi-disciplinary AI search organization, including AEO/GEO, shared services, and technical intelligent search teams.
- Define and execute enterprise strategies across Thermo Fisher’s digital ecosystem, ensuring visibility across discovery platforms.
- Translate evolving AI search, SERP, and LLM trends into scalable standards, governance, and frameworks.
- Partner with Product, Divisional Digital, IT/DT, Analytics, and Channel teams to align discoverability priorities with business and demand generation objectives.
- Oversee technical search health, including crawlability, rendering, schema/structure, and AI-specific markup.
- Direct AI-ready content strategies, including content briefs, topic prioritization, and optimization.
- Establish and oversee AI visibility monitoring, including presence in AI summaries, citations, misinformation intake, and LLM accuracy checks.
- Own reporting frameworks and dashboards for AI visibility performance, communicating insights, risks, and opportunities to senior leadership.
- Drive innovation through partnerships advancing automation, tooling, and AI-search measurement capabilities.
- Serve as a senior subject-matter expert for AI-driven search and discoverability best practices.
- Manage external vendors and partners supporting technical search, AI visibility, and optimization initiatives.
Education
- Bachelor’s in marketing, data/IT, or related field; Master’s preferred
Experience
- 10+ years of technical digital discoverability experience, with 4+ years leading multi-team or enterprise-scale initiatives.
- Deep expertise in technical search, including schema/structured data, site migrations, performance, and AI-readiness.
- Experience optimizing for AI-driven and generative search platforms, including answer engines and LLM-based discovery.
- Proven ability to adapt strategies to algorithm changes, evolving SERP formats, and emerging AI search behaviors.
- Strong cross-functional leadership experience within matrixed, global organizations.
- Proficiency with enterprise digital tools (GSC, SEMrush, Screaming Frog, Looker Studio, Adobe, CMS platforms).
- B2B or Life Sciences experience; familiarity with scientific or technical content strongly preferred.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
- Ability to work effectively with remote and global teams across time zones.
- Strong stakeholder influence skills; able to communicate complex technical concepts to executive audiences.
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously.
- Strong written and verbal communication, project management, and documentation skills.
- Working proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and Microsoft Teams.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Thermo Fisher Scientific and has not been reviewed or approved by Thermo Fisher Scientific.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a strong company 401(k) match and an employee stock purchase plan that add meaningful long‑term value. Feedback suggests these features stand out among core financial benefits even when base pay feels average.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage offers multiple national medical options alongside dental and vision, with company‑paid life and disability coverage. This breadth is considered a solid foundation even if some costs may not be the lowest among peers.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental and caregiver leave, backup care, adoption assistance, and specialized family resources are available. Feedback suggests these supports are a notable plus for colleagues managing family and caregiving needs.
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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of approximately $40 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing productivity in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, we are here to support them. Our global team delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD.
Why Work With Us
You will join a company which every colleague has the opportunity to create possibilities, for oneself, for our customers and patients. There is no more exciting place to be than at the forefront of solving problems which help improve lives around the world. As a company, we are committed to supporting your career aspirations and your journey.
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