SEO and AI Search Manager (Remote, Ballito)

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Ballito; Remote; ZAR 995,000 - 1,493,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is an AI-first digital agency seeking an experienced SEO and AI Search Manager to own search for a book of B2B and growing-brand clients. You will shape the technical roadmap, set content priorities, and explain the ranking story when clients ask what moved.

You will collaborate with writers and AI to produce drafts, run audits, and report in GA4 and Search Console, delivering a quarterly roadmap for each client.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Own technical SEO: crawl, indexation, site speed, schema, and site structure.
• Lead keyword strategy, on-page optimization, and content prioritization with writers.
• Improve AI search exposure alongside traditional results.
• Manage links, local SEO, and multi-location strategies as needed.
• Prepare GA4 and Search Console reports; define quarterly roadmaps.

Skills

3+ years SEO

GA4

Screaming Frog

Ahrefs or Semrush

Agency experience

English fluency

Tools

GA4

Screaming Frog

Ahrefs or Semrush

Job description

Blacksmith Agency

Search only. Paid media is a separate seat with its own strategist, so you are never split across both.

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

About The Role

Blacksmith Agency is an AI-first digital agency. As SEO and AI 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.