AEO Specialist (Answer Engine Optimization) (Remote, Edenvale)

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Gauteng; Remote; ZAR 995,000 - 1,658,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is an AI-first digital agency seeking an AEO Specialist to own search for B2B and growing-brand clients. You will steer the technical roadmap, content priorities, and the ranking story when clients ask what moved. You are the strategic voice at the table, making the calls.

You will handle technical SEO, keyword strategy, on-page optimization, and content priorities with writers and AI. Experience across multiple clients and fluency with US clients on live calls are essential.

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

• Own Technical SEO: crawl, indexation, site speed, schema and site architecture.
• Develop keyword strategy, on-page optimization and content priorities with writers and AI.
• Improve visibility in AI search alongside traditional organic results.
• Manage local search and multi-location SEO where needed.
• Provide GA4 and Search Console reporting and client roadmaps.

Skills

Hands-on SEO

Search Console

GA4

Screaming Frog

Ahrefs or Semrush

Agency experience

English communication

Tools

Screaming Frog

Ahrefs

Semrush

Google Analytics 4

Google Search Console

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 AEO Specialist (Answer Engine Optimization) 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.