SEO Strategist (Remote, San Diego)

Blacksmith Agency; San Diego (CA); Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is seeking an SEO Strategist who will own search for B2B and growing-brand clients, shaping the technical roadmap, content priorities, and the ranking narrative when clients ask what moved. You are the strategic voice and will make the calls.

You will manage technical SEO—crawl, indexation, site speed, schema and site architecture—while defining keyword strategy and on-page optimization with writers and AI.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on in SEO with audits and fixes done personally
• 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

• Own technical SEO: crawl, indexation, site speed, schema and site architecture
• Lead keyword strategy, on-page optimization and content priorities with writers/AI
• Get clients found in AI search and classic results
• Handle local search and multi-location SEO as needed
• Provide GA4 and Search Console reporting and quarterly client roadmaps

Skills

SEO experience

Client communication

Agency experience

English on live calls

Tools

Search Console

GA4

Screaming Frog

Ahrefs or Semrush

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 Strategist 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.