AI Search Optimization Specialist (Remote, San Francisco)

Blacksmith Agency LLC; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is an AI-first digital agency seeking an AI Search Optimization Specialist who owns search for a portfolio of B2B and growing-brand clients. You define the technical roadmap, content priorities and the ranking story when the client asks what moved.

You act as the strategic voice at the table, coordinating with writers and AI to run audits, optimize on-page content, and steer performance reporting in GA4 and Google Search Console for each quarterly client roadmap.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on in SEO; you have run audits and fixes yourself.
• Agency experience across several clients.
• Clear spoken English with US clients on live calls.

Responsibilities

• Own technical SEO: crawl, indexation, site speed, schema, site architecture.
• Keyword strategy, on-page optimization with writers and AI.
• Getting clients found in AI search: Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity, plus classic organic results.
• Links, local search and multi-location SEO where needed.
• Reporting in GA4 and Search Console, and the quarterly client roadmaps.

Skills

SEO audits & fixes

Agency experience

Live calls with US clients

English fluency

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 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.