SEO & AEO Strategist — Remote, AI-First Agency

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Rosebank; Remote; ZAR 1,161,000 - 1,825,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is an AI-first digital agency hiring an SEO and AEO Strategist to own search for a B2B client portfolio. You will define the technical roadmap, content priorities, and the ranking story when clients ask what moved. You are the strategic voice at the table and make the calls.

You will oversee technical SEO, keyword strategy, and AI-assisted content workflows with writers, while coordinating with US clients on live calls. This role is fully remote with global clients.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on in SEO: you have run the audits and made 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.

Responsibilities

• Technical SEO: crawl, indexation, site speed, schema and site architecture.
• Keyword strategy, on-page optimization and content priorities with writers and AI producing 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.

Skills

SEO expertise

Client communication

Agency experience

Tools

Search Console

GA4

Screaming Frog

Ahrefs

Semrush

Job description

Blacksmith Agency is an AI-first digital agency hiring an SEO and AEO Strategist to own search for a B2B client portfolio. You will define the technical roadmap, content priorities, and the ranking story when clients ask what moved. You are the strategic voice at the table and make the calls.

You will oversee technical SEO, keyword strategy, and AI-assisted content workflows with writers, while coordinating with US clients on live calls. This role is fully remote with global clients.