SEO Manager, Multifamily (Remote, Centurion)

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

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is seeking an SEO Manager, Multifamily to own search for a portfolio of multifamily clients. You will set the technical roadmap, content priorities, and shape the ranking narrative in client discussions. You’ll be the strategic voice deciding the moves.

You will focus on technical SEO, keyword strategy, on-page optimization, and AI-assisted drafts with writers. Strong English for US calls is required; experience with multi-location clients is a plus.

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.
• SEO for multifamily or similar multi-location businesses is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Own technical SEO: crawl, indexation, site speed, schema and site architecture.
• Develop keyword strategy, on-page optimization and content priorities with writers and AI.
• Drive visibility in AI search and classic organic results for multifamily clients.
• Lead local search and multi-location SEO activities as needed.
• Prepare reporting in GA4 and Search Console and plan quarterly roadmaps per client.

Skills

SEO

Keyword strategy

On-page optimization

GA4

Screaming Frog

Ahrefs/SEMrush

Tools

Screaming Frog

Ahrefs

Semrush

Google Search Console

GA4

Job description

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

Blacksmith Agency

• 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 Manager, Multifamily you own search for a book of multifamily clients (multifamily owners and property management groups running large portfolios): 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.
• SEO for multifamily or similar multi-location businesses is a strong plus.