SEO and AI Search Manager (Remote, Bloemfontein)

Blacksmith Agency; Bloemfontein; Remote; ZAR 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

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

You are the strategic voice at the table and make decisive calls. You will oversee technical SEO, keyword strategy, content prioritization, AI-enabled search growth, and local/multi-location SEO.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on in SEO with audits and fixes personally implemented.
• Clear spoken English with US clients on live calls.
• Agency experience managing multiple clients simultaneously.

Responsibilities

• Own technical SEO including crawl, indexation, site speed and schema.
• Develop keyword strategy and content priorities with writers and AI.
• Improve visibility in AI search (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity).
• Manage links, local search, and multi-location SEO as needed.
• Report in GA4 and Search Console; define quarterly client roadmaps.

Skills

SEO expertise

English communication

Agency experience

Client communication (US)

Tools

Screaming Frog

GA4

Ahrefs

Semrush

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.