Sr Manager, Global SEO / AEO

Sr Manager, Global SEO / AEO

We're looking for people who put their innovation to work to advance our success – and their own. Join an organization that ensures a more secure world through connecting and protecting our customers with inventive electrical solutions.

We are seeking a Sr Manager, Global SEO / AEO to lead how nVent is discovered across global digital channels. Reporting to the Sr Director of Marketing Technology, this new role sits at the intersection of marketing, platforms, and performance, where success depends on an ability to influence, teach and transform key organizational decision makers. You'll work across global teams to align priorities and shape how search operates at scale in a highly matrixed, enterprise environment.

This is a full time, direct-hire position with a hybrid work schedule of 4 days/week on-site in St. Louis Park, MN.

What You Will Experience In This Position:

• Own nVent's enterprise and global Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) strategy, ensuring strong search visibility as discovery shifts toward answer engines powered by large language models (LLMs).
• Build and scale a global SEO/AEO Center of Excellence, establishing governance, standards, training, decision frameworks, and measurement across brands and regions.
• Act as the enterprise product owner for SEO/AEO, partnering with Marketing, Digital IT, and analytics teams to define priorities, roadmaps, success metrics, and intake processes.
• Lead enterprise‑level organic search strategy, including intent‑based keyword research, competitive and gap analysis, content prioritization, information architecture direction, and performance optimization.
• Translate emerging AI search and LLM trends into practical guidance, shaping how content is structured and interpreted by search and answer engines.
• Enable marketing teams and content owners to apply SEO and AEO principles consistently, integrating search‑aligned decision‑making into everyday workflows.
• Align organic, paid, and agency search efforts, partnering with external agencies to amplify impact and support enterprise demand and lead‑generation objectives.

You Have:

• Bachelor's (B.A. or B.S.) degree in Writing, Content Strategy, Marketing, or Digital Marketing preferred.
• 7+ years of hands‑on SEO experience in an agency, matrixed organization, or global enterprise environment.
• 5+ years leading enterprise or global SEO strategy, including governance, prioritization, and cross‑functional influence.
• Exposure to or training in AEO preferred, with an understanding of how answer engines and LLMs influence visibility, citations, content structure, and B2B buyer behavior.
• Experience partnering with technical teams on initiatives that improve organic search performance, including web development collaboration, platform implementations or migrations, and digital transformation.
• Fluency with SEO and analytics platforms (e.g., Google Analytics, Tag Manager, Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools, Ahrefs, SEMrush) and the ability to translate performance data into executive‑level insights.

We Have:

• A dynamic global reach with diverse operations around the world that will stretch your abilities, provide plentiful career opportunities, and allow you to make an impact every day

  • nVent is a leading global provider of electrical connection and protection solutions. We believe our inventive electrical solutions enable safer systems and ensure a more secure world. We design, manufacture, market, install and service high performance products and solutions that connect and protect some of the world's most sensitive equipment, buildings and critical processes. We offer a comprehensive range of systems protection and electrical connections solutions across industry-leading brands that are recognized globally for quality, reliability and innovation.

  • Our principal office is in London and our management office in the United States is in Minneapolis. Our robust portfolio of leading electrical product brands dates back more than 100 years and includes nVent CADDY, ERICO, HOFFMAN, ILSCO, SCHROFF and TRACHTE. Learn more at

• Commitment to strengthen communities where our employees live and work

  • We encourage and support the philanthropic activities of our employees worldwide

  • Through our nVent in Action matching program, we provide funds to nonprofit and educational organizations where our employees volunteer or donate money

• Core values that shape our culture and drive us to deliver the best for our employees and our customers. We're known for being:

  • Innovative & adaptable

  • Dedicated to absolute integrity

  • Focused on the customer first

  • Respectful and team oriented

  • Optimistic and energizing

  • Accountable for performance

• Benefits to support the lives of our employees

  Pay Transparency nVent's pay scale is based on the expected range of base pay for this job and the employee's work location. Employee pay within this range will be based on a combination of factors including knowledge, skills, abilities, experience, education, and performance. Where federal, state, or local minimum wage requirements exist, employee pay will comply. Compensation Range:

  $123,500.00 - $229,500.00

  Depending on the position offered, employee may be eligible for other forms of compensation, such as annual incentives.

  Benefit Overview

  At nVent, we value our people and their health and well-being. We provide a broad benefits package with meaningful programs for eligible full-time employees that includes:

  • Medical, dental, and vision plans along with flexible spending accounts, short-term and long-term disability benefits, critical illness, accident insurance and life insurance.

  • A 401(k) retirement plan and an employee stock purchase plan — both include a company match.

  • Other supplemental benefits may include tuition reimbursement, caregiver, personal and parental leave, back-up care services, paid time off including volunteer time, a well-being program, and/or legal & identity theft protection.