Remote Senior SEO Lead - AI-Driven Digital Agency

Blacksmith Agency LLC; North Carolina; Remote; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is an AI-first digital agency seeking a Senior SEO Specialist to own search for a portfolio of B2B and growing-brand clients. You’ll steer the technical roadmap, content priorities, and ranking narrative, serving as the strategic voice in client discussions.

You’ll lead technical SEO, keyword strategy, and AI-assisted content workflows, working with writers while ensuring measurable improvements across crawl, indexation, and local multi-location SEO.

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

Search Console GA4

Screaming Frog

Ahrefs Semrush

Agency experience

English fluency

Job description

Blacksmith Agency is an AI-first digital agency seeking a Senior SEO Specialist to own search for a portfolio of B2B and growing-brand clients. You’ll steer the technical roadmap, content priorities, and ranking narrative, serving as the strategic voice in client discussions.

You’ll lead technical SEO, keyword strategy, and AI-assisted content workflows, working with writers while ensuring measurable improvements across crawl, indexation, and local multi-location SEO.