AI Search Optimization Specialist (Remote, Fourways)

Blacksmith Agency LLC; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 240,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency LLC is an AI-first digital agency seeking an AI Search Optimization Specialist. You own search for B2B and growing-brand clients, shaping technical roadmaps, content priorities, and the ranking narrative.

You’ll be the strategic voice at the table, making the calls to move client results. The role focuses on technical SEO, keyword strategy, AI search visibility, and cross-location SEO, with reporting duties and quarterly client roadmaps.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on in SEO; you have run audits and 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.
• Getting clients found in AI search: Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity.
• Links, local search and multi-location SEO where the client needs it.
• Reporting in GA4 and Search Console, and quarterly roadmaps for each client.

Skills

3+ years SEO

US client communication

Agency experience

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 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.