SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Specialist (Remote, Portland)

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Portland (ME); Remote; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency LLC is a AI-first digital agency seeking an SEO Specialist to own search strategy for a book of B2B clients. You will steer technical roadmaps, content priorities, and ranking narratives, acting as the strategic voice in client discussions.

You will manage technical SEO, keyword strategy, and content priorities with writers and AI, while ensuring growth across AI and classic organic search.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on in SEO with audits and fixes.
• Fluency with Search Console, GA4, Screaming Frog, Ahrefs or Semrush.
• Agency experience across multiple clients.
• Clear spoken English with US clients on live calls.

Responsibilities

• Own technical SEO: crawl, indexation, site speed, schema, site architecture.
• Develop keyword strategy and on-page optimization with writers and AI input.
• Improve client visibility in AI search and traditional results.
• Lead local search and multi-location SEO as needed.
• Provide GA4 and Search Console reporting; build quarterly roadmaps.

Skills

SEO experience 3+ yrs

Search Console

GA4

Agency experience

Tools

Screaming Frog

Ahrefs

Semrush

GA4

Job description

Blacksmith Agency

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

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 (Search Engine Optimization) Specialist 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.