AI Search Optimization Specialist (Remote, Westville)

Blacksmith Agency; KwaZulu-Natal; Remote; ZAR 1,150,000 - 1,889,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is an AI-first digital agency seeking an AI Search Optimization Specialist to own search for a book of B2B and growing-brand clients. You will 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 work with writers and AI to produce drafts, run audits, and report in GA4 and Search Console, while leading multi-location SEO and local search strategies across

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on in SEO; audits and fixes done personally.
• Fluency with GA4, Search Console, Screaming Frog and Ahrefs or Semrush.
• Agency experience across several clients at once.

Responsibilities

• Own technical SEO audits: crawl, indexation, speed, schema, site architecture.
• Keyword strategy, on-page optimization, content priorities with writers and AI.
• Get clients found in AI search and traditional results across multiple locations.
• Reporting in GA4 and Search Console with quarterly client roadmaps.

Skills

Technical SEO

Keyword strategy

Agency experience

English on calls

Tools

GA4

Screaming Frog

Ahrefs or Semrush

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.