AI Search Optimization Specialist (Remote, Halifax)

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Canada; Remote; CAD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is an AI-first digital agency seeking an AI Search Optimization Specialist to own search for a book of B2B and growing-brand clients. You will shape the technical roadmap, set content priorities, and articulate the ranking story when clients ask what moved.

You’ll be the strategic voice at the table and make critical calls. Responsibilities include leading technical SEO, keyword strategy, content collaboration with writers and AI, and driving visibility in traditional and

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on in SEO with audits and fixes experience.
• Fluency with Google Analytics 4, Search Console, Screaming Frog and Ahrefs or Semrush.
• Agency experience managing multiple clients simultaneously.
• Clear spoken English with US clients on live calls.

Responsibilities

• Own technical SEO aspects: crawl, indexation, site speed, schema and structure.
• Develop keyword strategies, on-page optimization, and content priorities with writers/AI.
• Improve client visibility in AI search (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity) and organic results.
• Manage local/multi-location SEO as needed for clients.
• Provide GA4 and Search Console reporting and quarterly roadmaps per client.

Skills

Hands-on SEO

English communication (US clients)

Agency experience

Tools

GA4

Search Console

Screaming Frog

Ahrefs or Semrush

Job description

Blacksmith Agency

• Marketing
• Full time
• Remote (Canada, South Africa or USA)

Search only. Paid media is a separate seat with its own strategist, so you are never split across both.

About The Role

Blacksmith Agency is an AI-first digital agency. As AI Search Optimization Specialist you own search for a book of B2B and growing-brand clients: the technical roadmap, the content priorities and the ranking story when the client asks what moved. You are the strategic voice at the table, and you make the calls.

What You Will Own

• Technical SEO: crawl, indexation, site speed, schema and site architecture.
• Keyword strategy, on-page optimization and content priorities, with writers and AI producing the drafts.
• Getting clients found in AI search: Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity, alongside classic organic results.
• Links, local search and multi-location SEO where the client needs it.
• Reporting in GA4 and Search Console, and the quarterly roadmap for each client.

What You Bring

• 3+ years hands-on in SEO: you have run the audits and made the fixes yourself.
• Fluency with Search Console, GA4, Screaming Frog and Ahrefs or Semrush.
• Agency experience across several clients at once.
• Clear spoken English with US clients on live calls.