Remote AI-First SEO Strategist (Technical & Content)

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Montreal; Remote; CAD 98,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is an AI-first digital agency hiring an SEO Strategist to own search for a book of B2B and growing-brand clients. You will guide the technical roadmap, content priorities, and the ranking story when clients ask what moved.

You are the strategic voice at client meetings, making calls on technical SEO, keyword strategy, and multi-location SEO while coordinating with writers and AI for drafts.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

SEO experience

English on calls

Agency experience

GA4 & SEO tools

Tools

Screaming Frog

Ahrefs

Semrush

Google Search Console

Job description

Blacksmith Agency is an AI-first digital agency hiring an SEO Strategist to own search for a book of B2B and growing-brand clients. You will guide the technical roadmap, content priorities, and the ranking story when clients ask what moved.

You are the strategic voice at client meetings, making calls on technical SEO, keyword strategy, and multi-location SEO while coordinating with writers and AI for drafts.