Remote AI Search Optimization Strategist

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Raleigh (NC); Remote; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is an AI-first digital agency seeking an AI Search Optimization Specialist to own search for a book of B2B and growing-brand clients. You’ll manage the technical roadmap, content priorities, and ranking narrative for clients, serving as the strategic voice in decisions.

You will lead technical SEO, keyword strategy, and AI-enabled content workflows, delivering results across Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and traditional organic results.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

SEO expertise

English on live calls

Agency experience

Tools

GA4

Screaming Frog

Ahrefs

Semrush

Search Console

Job description

Blacksmith Agency is an AI-first digital agency seeking an AI Search Optimization Specialist to own search for a book of B2B and growing-brand clients. You’ll manage the technical roadmap, content priorities, and ranking narrative for clients, serving as the strategic voice in decisions.

You will lead technical SEO, keyword strategy, and AI-enabled content workflows, delivering results across Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and traditional organic results.