SEO and AI Search Manager (Remote, Midrand)

Blacksmith Agency; Midrand; Remote; ZAR 480,000 - 720,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is seeking an SEO and AI Search Manager to own search for a book of B2B and growing-brand clients, shaping the technical roadmap, content priorities, and the ranking story on demand.

You will lead technical SEO, plan content with writers and AI, optimize for AI search and classic results, and coordinate with client calls from the US. Remote-friendly, global agency environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on in SEO: audits and fixes done personally.
• 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 for multiple B2B and growing-brand clients.
• Set content priorities with writers and AI-produced drafts.
• Improve ranking with AI-assisted and classic search results.
• Manage local search and multi-location SEO where needed.
• Provide GA4 and Search Console reporting and quarterly client roadmaps.

Skills

Agency experience across several

Clear spoken English

Strategic SEO thinking

Client communication on live calls

Tools

Search Console

GA4

Screaming Frog

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.