AI-First SEO & Search Strategy Manager

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Ballito; Remote; ZAR 991,000 - 1,486,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is an AI-first digital agency seeking an SEO and AI Search Manager to own search strategies for a portfolio of B2B clients. You will direct the technical roadmap, content priorities, and the ranking narrative when clients ask what moved the needles.

You will lead technical SEO audits, content prioritization with writers and AI, and ensure coverage across Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and conventional organic results. Remote role with US/Canada/ LATAM / SA clients.

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 roadmap: crawl, indexation, site structure, schema.
• Lead keyword strategy, on-page optimization and content priorities with writers/AI.
• Improve visibility in AI search and traditional organic results.
• Manage multi-location/local SEO as needed for clients.
• Provide GA4/Search Console reporting and quarterly client roadmaps.

Job description

Blacksmith Agency is an AI-first digital agency seeking an SEO and AI Search Manager to own search strategies for a portfolio of B2B clients. You will direct the technical roadmap, content priorities, and the ranking narrative when clients ask what moved the needles.

You will lead technical SEO audits, content prioritization with writers and AI, and ensure coverage across Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and conventional organic results. Remote role with US/Canada/ LATAM / SA clients.