Senior SEO Strategist - Remote AI-First Agency

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is an AI-first digital agency seeking a Senior SEO Specialist who owns search for a book of B2B and growing-brand clients: the technical roadmap, 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 on technical SEO, on-page optimization, AI-assisted drafts with writers, local and multi-location SEO, plus reporting in GA4 and Search Console.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on in SEO: audits and fixes.
• 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

GA4

Agency experience

English on calls

Technical SEO

Tools

Screaming Frog

Ahrefs

Semrush

Google Search Console

Job description

Blacksmith Agency is an AI-first digital agency seeking a Senior SEO Specialist who owns search for a book of B2B and growing-brand clients: the technical roadmap, 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 on technical SEO, on-page optimization, AI-assisted drafts with writers, local and multi-location SEO, plus reporting in GA4 and Search Console.