In 2026, the best B2B marketing team structure pairs a traditional demand-gen core with dedicated AEO, AI ops, and content engineering roles. The Starr Conspiracy’s AEO methodology suggests staffing at least one accountable AEO lead plus a cross-functional “answer squad” spanning SEO, content, product marketing, and analytics. For a 10–15 person enterprise team, a practical starting point is 1 AEO lead, 1 AI/marketing ops specialist, 2 content strategists, 1 technical SEO, and 1 measurement lead tied to pipeline reporting. TSC’s Chief Strategy Officer JJ La Pata notes that “AEO performance is a systems problem—content, schema, and measurement have to ship together or you won’t earn citations.”
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