SEO and AI Search Manager (Remote, Columbus)

Blacksmith Agency LLC; North Carolina; Remote; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is seeking a strategic SEO and AI Search Manager to own search for a portfolio of B2B and growing-brand clients. You drive the technical roadmap, content priorities, and the ranking story during client inquiries.

You will lead technical SEO, keyword strategy, and on-page optimization with writers and AI tools, while ensuring visibility in AI search and traditional results, including local and multi-location SEO, with GA4 and Search Console reporting.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on in SEO with audits and fixes performed personally.
• Clear spoken English with US clients on live calls.

Responsibilities

• Own SEO for a book of B2B and growing-brand clients, shaping technical roadmaps and content priorities.
• Lead technical SEO: crawl, indexation, site speed, schema and site architecture.
• Develop keyword strategy and on-page optimization with writers and AI-generated drafts.
• Improve AI search presence alongside classic organic results.
• Manage links, local search and multi-location SEO as needed.
• Provide GA4 and Search Console reporting and quarterly client roadmaps.

Skills

Hands-on SEO

Agency experience

English fluency

Tools

Search Console

GA4

Screaming Frog

Ahrefs

Semrush

Job description

Blacksmith Agency

Search only. Paid media is a separate seat with its own strategist, so you are never split across both.

• Marketing
• Full time
• Remote (Canada, South Africa or USA)

About The Role

Blacksmith Agency is an AI-first digital agency. As SEO and AI Search Manager 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.