Organic Search Manager (Remote, Pietermaritzburg)

Blacksmith Agency; Pietermaritzburg; Remote; ZAR 1,316,000 - 1,975,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is an AI-first digital agency seeking an Organic Search Manager to own strategy, execution and client ranking stories for a book of B2B clients.

You will steer technical SEO, keyword priorities, and content collaboration with writers and AI, while reporting in GA4 and Search Console on progress and roadmaps.

This remote, full-time role serves US, Canada, LATAM and South Africa clients, requiring clear English on live calls.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Own technical SEO: crawl, indexation, site speed, schema and architecture.
• Lead keyword strategy, on-page optimization, and content priorities with writers and AI.
• Get clients found in AI search: Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity, alongside classic organic results.
• Build links, local search and multi-location SEO as needed.
• Report in GA4 and Search Console, and define quarterly roadmaps for each client.

Skills

SEO experience

Client communication

Tools

GA4

Screaming Frog

Ahrefs

Semrush

Job description

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

Blacksmith Agency

• 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 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.