SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Manager (Remote, Ballito)

Blacksmith Agency; Ballito; Remote; ZAR 985,000 - 1,478,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is seeking an SEO Manager to own search strategies for a book of B2B and growing-brand clients. You will lead the technical roadmap, set content priorities, and articulate the ranking story to clients during reviews.

As an AI-first digital agency, you will coordinate with writers and AI to deliver drafts, run audits, and report progress in GA4 and Search Console. This role requires clear English communication with US clients on live calls and a track record of hands-on SEO

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on in SEO with audits and fixes.
• Fluency with GA4, Search Console, Screaming Frog, and SEO tools.
• Agency experience across multiple clients.
• Clear spoken English with US clients on live calls.

Responsibilities

• Own technical SEO including crawl, indexation, site speed, schema.
• Define keyword strategy and on-page optimization with writers/AI.
• Improve client visibility in AI search and traditional results.
• Manage local and multi-location SEO where needed.
• Provide GA4/Search Console reporting and quarterly roadmaps.

Skills

SEO strategy

Technical SEO

Client communication

Agency experience

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 (Search Engine Optimization) 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.