AI Search Optimization Specialist (Remote, Austin)

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is a remote-first AI-first digital agency seeking an AI Search Optimization Specialist to own search for a portfolio of B2B and growing-brand clients. You will steer the technical roadmap, content priorities, and the ranking story when clients ask what moved, acting as the strategic voice at the table.

You will own technical SEO, keyword strategy, and on-page optimization with writers and AI, ensuring clients appear in AI search results and traditional organic rankings.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on SEO experience with audits and fixes.
• Fluency with Search Console, GA4, Screaming Frog and Ahrefs/SEMrush.
• Agency experience across multiple clients.
• Clear spoken English with US clients on live calls.

Responsibilities

• Own technical SEO: crawl, indexation, site speed, schema, site architecture.
• Lead keyword strategy and on-page optimization with writers and AI.
• Improve AI search visibility: Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity, plus classic results.
• Handle links, local search, and multi-location SEO as needed.
• Report in GA4 and Search Console; plan quarterly roadmaps for each client.

Skills

SEO

Agency experience

English (US)

Client comms

Tools

Screaming Frog

Ahrefs

SEMrush

GA4

Search Console

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 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.