SEO Manager, HVAC (Remote, San Diego)

Blacksmith Agency; San Diego (CA); Remote; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency in the United States (Remote) seeks an SEO Manager for HVAC clients. You own technical roadmap, content priorities, and ranking stories for multi-location home services.

You will lead technical SEO, keyword strategy, and content coordination with writers and AI, while reporting success in GA4 and Search Console.

If you bring 3+ years of hands-on SEO, agency experience, and strong US-English communication, you will thrive in this AI-first environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on in SEO with audits and fixes.
• Fluency with Google Search Console, GA4, Screaming Frog, and Ahrefs or Semrush.
• Experience with multiple clients in an agency setting.

Responsibilities

• Technical SEO: crawl, indexation, site speed, schema, and architecture.
• Keyword strategy and on-page optimization with writers/AI.
• Grow visibility in AI search alongside traditional results.

Skills

SEO Expertise

Agency Experience

Client Communication

Tools

Search Console

GA4

Screaming Frog

Ahrefs

Semrush

Job description

Blacksmith Agency

• 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 SEO Manager, HVAC you own search for a book of HVAC clients (multi-location HVAC and home service groups): 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.
• SEO for HVAC or similar multi-location businesses is a strong plus.