AI Search Optimization Specialist (Remote, Chicago)

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is seeking an AI Search Optimization Specialist to own search for a portfolio of B2B and growing-brand clients. You will shape the technical roadmap, content priorities, and the ranking story when clients ask what moved.

You serve as the strategic voice and make the calls. In this remote role, you will drive technical SEO, keyword strategy, and content alignment with writers and AI, while leveraging GA4, Search Console, and top SEO tools to deliver measurable results for

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on in SEO with audits and fixes.
• Clear spoken English with US clients on live calls.

Responsibilities

• Own technical SEO for client book: crawl, indexation, site speed, schema, architecture.
• Develop keyword strategy, on-page optimization, and content priorities with writers and AI.
• Improve visibility in AI search (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity) and traditional results.
• Manage local search and multi-location SEO as needed.
• Provide GA4 and Search Console reporting and quarterly client roadmaps.

Skills

3+ years hands-on in SEO

Clear spoken English

Tools

Search Console

GA4

Screaming Frog

Ahrefs or Semrush

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 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.