Organic Search Manager (Remote, Cape Town)

Blacksmith Agency; Cape Town; Remote; ZAR 420,000 - 660,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is seeking an Organic Search Manager to own SEO for a portfolio of B2B clients. You will shape the technical roadmap, content priorities, and the ranking narrative when clients ask what moved the needle.

You will be the strategic voice at the table, making the calls that drive results. You’ll own technical SEO, keyword strategy, on-page optimization, and content priorities, coordinating with writers and AI to produce drafts.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Lead technical SEO: crawl, indexation, site speed, schema, site architecture.

Skills

SEO

Client communication

Tools

Search Console

GA4

Screaming Frog

Ahrefs or 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 Organic Search Manager 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.