SEO Manager, Veterinary (Remote, Edenvale)

Blacksmith Agency; Gauteng; Remote; ZAR 360,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is seeking an SEO Manager, Veterinary to own search strategy for a veterinary client portfolio. You will guide the technical roadmap, content prioritization, and the narrative of ranking improvements.

You act as the strategic voice in client discussions and drive decisions. You will oversee technical SEO, keyword strategy, content priorities with writers/AI, and AI-enabled search visibility while coordinating across multi-location practices and performance reporting.

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

Responsibilities

• Own Technical SEO including 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 (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity) and traditional organic results
• Manage local search and multi-location SEO for clients
• Provide GA4 and Search Console reporting and quarterly roadmaps for each client

Skills

SEO experience

Agency experience

Client communication

Tools

Search Console

GA4

Screaming Frog

Ahrefs/SEMrush

Job description

Blacksmith Agency

• Marketing
• Full time
• Remote (Canada, South Africa or USA)

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.