SEO and AI Search Manager (Remote, Ballito)

Blacksmith Agency; Ballito; Remote; ZAR 991,000 - 1,486,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is an AI-first digital agency seeking an SEO and AI Search Manager to own search strategies for a portfolio of B2B clients. You will direct the technical roadmap, content priorities, and the ranking narrative when clients ask what moved the needles.

You will lead technical SEO audits, content prioritization with writers and AI, and ensure coverage across Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and conventional organic results. Remote role with US/Canada/ LATAM / SA clients.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Own technical SEO roadmap: crawl, indexation, site structure, schema.
• Lead keyword strategy, on-page optimization and content priorities with writers/AI.
• Improve visibility in AI search and traditional organic results.
• Manage multi-location/local SEO as needed for clients.
• Provide GA4/Search Console reporting and quarterly client roadmaps.

Job description

Blacksmith Agency

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

• 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 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.