SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Manager (Remote, Halifax)

Blacksmith Agency; Halifax; Remote; CAD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work (Canada, South Africa or 1

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is seeking an SEO Manager for a fully remote role serving B2B and growing-brand clients. You will own the technical roadmap, content priorities, and the ranking story, acting as the strategic voice in client discussions.

You will oversee technical audits, keyword strategy, content priorities, and AI-assisted drafts in collaboration with writers. The role requires hands-on SEO work and clear communication with US clients.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on SEO experience with audits and fixes.
• 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.
• Getting clients found in AI search and traditional results.
• Links, local search and multi-location SEO for clients.
• Reporting in GA4 and Search Console and quarterly roadmaps for each client.

Skills

SEO expertise

English communication

Agency experience

Live client calls

Tools

Search Console

GA4

Screaming Frog

Ahrefs

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 SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Manager 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.