Strategic SEO Lead — AI-First Agency (Remote)

Blacksmith Agency LLC; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is an AI-first digital agency seeking a Marketing Strategist to own search for a book of B2B and growing-brand clients. You will shape the technical roadmap, content priorities, and the ranking story when the client asks what moved.

You’ll be the strategic voice at the table and make the calls. In this remote role, you’ll collaborate with writers and AI to drive on-page optimization, site speed, schema, local search, and GA4/Search Console reporting.

Qualifications

• 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.

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

Hands-on SEO

Client communication

Agency experience

Tools

Search Console

GA4

Screaming Frog

Ahrefs

Semrush

Job description

Blacksmith Agency is an AI-first digital agency seeking a Marketing Strategist to own search for a book of B2B and growing-brand clients. You will shape the technical roadmap, content priorities, and the ranking story when the client asks what moved.

You’ll be the strategic voice at the table and make the calls. In this remote role, you’ll collaborate with writers and AI to drive on-page optimization, site speed, schema, local search, and GA4/Search Console reporting.