SEO Manager, Veterinary (Remote, Bloemfontein)

Blacksmith Agency; Bloemfontein; Remote; ZAR 1,156,000 - 1,652,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency, a veterinary-focused AI-first digital firm, seeks an SEO Manager to own search strategy and execution for veterinary clients. You will manage technical SEO, content priorities, and AI-assisted drafts, steering the ranking story and roadmap.

You’ll collaborate with writers, analysts, and US-based clients on live calls to align outcomes. You bring 3+ years of hands-on SEO, fluent English for US sessions, and agency multi-client experience.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on in SEO: run audits and 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 veterinary or multi-location businesses is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Technical SEO: crawl, indexation, site speed, schema and site architecture.
• Keyword strategy, on-page optimization and content priorities with writers and AI producing drafts.
• Get 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.

Skills

SEO experience

Client communication

Tools

Search Console

GA4

Screaming Frog

Ahrefs or Semrush

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, Veterinary you own search for a book of veterinary clients (veterinary groups and multi-clinic practices): 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 veterinary or similar multi-location businesses is a strong plus.