AI Search Optimization Specialist (Remote, Phoenix)

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Phoenix (AZ); Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is seeking an AI Search Optimization Specialist to own search for B2B and growing-brand clients, shaping the technical roadmap, content priorities and ranking narrative. You will serve as the strategic voice, making informed calls in collaboration with writers and AI to deliver measurable SEO results.

You will manage technical SEO, keyword strategy, content prioritization, and AI-enabled search initiatives, including AI overlays and traditional organic efforts.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on in SEO audit, fixes and implementation.
• Fluency with Search Console, GA4, Screaming Frog and Ahrefs or Semrush.
• Agency experience across multiple clients simultaneously.
• 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, Google AI Overviews and other AI tools.
• Links, local search and multi-location SEO where the client needs it.
• Reporting in GA4 and Search Console, and quarterly client roadmaps.

Skills

SEO expertise

Search Console

GA4

Screaming Frog

Ahrefs

Semrush

Clear client communication (US)

Tools

Search Console

GA4

Screaming Frog

Ahrefs

Semrush

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 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.