AEO Specialist (Answer Engine Optimization) (Remote, Houston)

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Houston (TX); Remote; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency, an AI-first digital marketing agency, seeks an AEO Specialist to own search for a book of B2B and growing-brand clients. You will shape the technical roadmap, content priorities, and the ranking story when clients ask what moved. You are the strategic voice at the table, making the calls.

You will lead technical SEO, keyword strategy, and content priorities with writers and AI, and report in GA4 and Search Console while guiding multi-location SEO and AI-enabled search results.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on in SEO, audits and fixes completed by you.
• Fluency with Search Console, GA4, Screaming Frog and Ahrefs or Semrush.
• Agency experience across multiple clients.

Responsibilities

• Own technical SEO: crawl, indexation, site speed, schema, site architecture.
• Develop keyword strategy and on-page optimization, coordinating with writers and AI.
• Ensure clients appear in AI search results (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity).
• Manage local search and multi-location SEO where needed.
• Provide reporting in GA4 and Search Console and set quarterly client roadmaps.

Skills

SEO experience

GA4

Screaming Frog

Ahrefs/Semrush

Agency experience

English communication

Tools

GA4

Search Console

Job description

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

Blacksmith Agency

• 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 AEO Specialist (Answer Engine Optimization) 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.