AI Search Optimization Specialist (Remote, Durban)

Blacksmith Agency; Durban; Remoto; ZAR 360.000 - 600.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Remote work

Descrizione del lavoro

Blacksmith Agency is seeking an AI-first Search Optimization Specialist to own search strategies for a portfolio of B2B and growing-brand clients. You will shape the technical roadmap, priorities for content, and the ranking story when clients ask what moved.

You are the strategic voice and make the calls. You will lead technical SEO, keyword strategy, and content prioritization with writers and AI tools, ensuring clients appear in AI search results, classic organic results, and local/localized

Competenze

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

Mansioni

• Own the technical SEO roadmap: crawl, indexation, site speed, schema and architecture.
• Set keyword strategy, on-page optimization and content priorities with writers and AI support.
• Improve visibility in Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT and traditional results for client sites.
• Manage local search and multi-location SEO as needed for clients.
• Produce reporting in GA4 and Search Console and lay out quarterly roadmaps for each client.

Conoscenze

SEO

Agency experience

Client communication

Live calls

Strumenti

Search Console

GA4

Screaming Frog

Ahrefs

Descrizione del lavoro

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.