SEO Manager - AI-First, Technical & Local SEO (Remote)

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Randburg; Remote; ZAR 1,232,000 - 1,807,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is seeking an experienced SEO Manager for urgent care clients in a fully remote role. You will own the technical SEO roadmap, keyword strategy, and content priorities, working with writers and AI to produce drafts, while guiding the ranking story for the client.

You will collaborate with US clients on live calls, manage multi-location SEO projects, and provide GA4/Search Console reporting to shape quarterly roadmaps.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on in SEO with audits and fixes.
• 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.
• SEO for urgent care or multi-location businesses is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Technical SEO: crawl, indexation, site speed, schema and site architecture.
• Keyword strategy, on-page optimization and content priorities with writers and AI.
• Getting clients found in AI search: Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity, plus classic organic results.
• Links, local search and multi-location SEO.
• Reporting in GA4 and Search Console, and the quarterly roadmap for each client.

Skills

SEO

Agency experience

GA4

Screaming Frog

Ahrefs

Semrush

English communication

Tools

Search Console

GA4

Screaming Frog

Ahrefs

Semrush

Job description

Blacksmith Agency is seeking an experienced SEO Manager for urgent care clients in a fully remote role. You will own the technical SEO roadmap, keyword strategy, and content priorities, working with writers and AI to produce drafts, while guiding the ranking story for the client.

You will collaborate with US clients on live calls, manage multi-location SEO projects, and provide GA4/Search Console reporting to shape quarterly roadmaps.