AI Search Optimization Specialist (Remote, Gqeberha)

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

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is seeking an AI Search Optimization Specialist to own search for a book of 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 and you make the calls.

You will own technical SEO, keyword strategy, AI-assisted search visibility, and reporting across multiple client sites, collaborating with writers and AI to deliver drafts and optimize performance.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on in SEO with audits and fixes.
• Fluency with GA4, Search Console and crawl tools.
• Agency experience across multiple clients.

Responsibilities

• Own technical SEO for client book: crawl, indexation, site speed, schema, architecture.
• Drive keyword strategy, on-page optimization and content priorities with writers/AI.
• Improve AI search visibility: Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity alongside organic results.
• Manage links, local search and multi-location SEO as needed by clients.
• Produce quarterly client roadmap and GA4/Search Console reporting.

Skills

SEO audits

GA4

Search Console

Screaming Frog

Ahrefs or Semrush

US client calls

Tools

GA4

Screaming Frog

Ahrefs/SEMrush

Search Console

Job description

Blacksmith Agency

• Remote (USA, Canada, Latin America or South Africa)

• Marketing
• Full time
• Remote (USA, Canada, Latin America or South Africa)

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.