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

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Kitchener; Remote; CAD 99,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is an AI-first digital agency seeking an SEO Manager who will own search for a portfolio of B2B and growing-brand clients. You will direct the technical roadmap, define content priorities, and shape the ranking narrative when clients ask what moved the needle.

You will own technical SEO, keyword strategy, and AI-assisted content workflows with writers, while coordinating with teams on multi-location SEO and local visibility.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on in SEO including 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

• Own technical SEO: crawl, indexation, site speed, schema, architecture.
• Lead keyword strategy, on-page optimization and content priorities with writers and AI.
• Improve visibility in AI search and traditional organic results for client books.
• Manage local search and multi-location SEO where needed.
• Provide GA4 and Search Console reporting and quarterly client roadmaps.

Skills

SEO experience

English communication

Tools

Search Console

GA4

Screaming Frog

Ahrefs

Semrush

Job description

Blacksmith Agency

• Remote (USA, Canada, Latin America or South Africa)

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

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.