AI Search Optimization Specialist (Remote, Bryanston)

Blacksmith Agency LLC; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 988,000 - 1,482,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency LLC is looking for an AI Search Optimization Specialist to own search for a portfolio of B2B and growing-brand clients. You’ll shape the technical roadmap, content priorities and the ranking story when clients ask what moved. You are the strategic voice at the table and you make the calls.

You will handle technical SEO, keyword strategy with writers/AI, and focus on AI search visibility across Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity, alongside classic organic results.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Own technical SEO for a portfolio of B2B and growing-brand clients.
• Define keyword strategy, on-page optimization and content priorities with writers/AI.
• Improve visibility in AI search: Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity, plus traditional results.
• Manage links, local and multi-location SEO as needed by clients.
• Provide GA4 and Search Console reporting and quarterly client roadmaps.

Skills

SEO experience

SEO tools

Agency experience

English on calls

Tools

Search Console

GA4

Screaming Frog

Ahrefs / 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 AI Search 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.