Search Marketing Manager (Remote, Ballito)

Blacksmith Agency; Ballito; Remote; ZAR 360,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is an AI-first digital agency hiring a Search Marketing Manager to own paid media for a B2B client roster and growing brands. You will shape strategy, manage spend, and present the narrative behind campaign performance to clients.

Role focuses on paid media with Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn, and Microsoft Ads. Requires 3+ years hands-on experience and strong English on live calls with US clients.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on in Google Ads and Meta.
• Agency experience across several clients at once.
• Clear spoken English with US clients on live calls.

Responsibilities

• Own paid media for your accounts across Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn and Microsoft Ads.
• Budget allocation, bidding, targeting and creative testing, and when to kill a campaign.
• Conversion tracking and attribution you can trust: GA4, tag manager and platform pixels.
• Manage the 90 day and quarterly roadmap for each client and explain the numbers on calls.
• Drive account growth through retention, upsell and long-term relationships.

Skills

Google Ads

Meta Ads

Agency experience

English proficiency

Tools

GA4

Tag Manager

Pixels

Job description

Blacksmith Agency

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

Paid media only. SEO 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 Search Marketing Manager you own paid media for a book of B2B and growing-brand clients: the targeting, the budget calls, the roadmap and the narrative when the client asks why. You are the strategic voice at the table, and you make the calls.

What You Will Own

• Paid media across Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn and Microsoft Ads for your accounts.
• Budget allocation, bidding, targeting and creative testing, and when to kill a campaign.
• Conversion tracking and attribution you can trust: GA4, tag manager and platform pixels.
• The 90 day and quarterly roadmap for each client, and the story behind the numbers on the call.
• Account growth: retention, upsell and the long-term relationship.

What You Bring

• 3+ years hands-on in Google Ads and Meta: you have built, run and optimized the campaigns yourself.
• A record of moving ROAS, CPA or pipeline numbers you can walk us through.
• Agency experience across several clients at once.
• Clear spoken English with US clients on live calls.