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

Blacksmith Agency; Gauteng; Remote; ZAR 1,478,000 - 2,135,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is seeking an SEO Manager to own search strategies for a portfolio of B2B and growing-brand clients. You will shape technical roadmaps, prioritise content, and steer ranking narratives with input from writers and AI.

You are the strategic voice in client discussions and will drive decisions. As the SEO Manager, you will manage technical SEO, keyword strategy, local and multi-location SEO, plus reporting in GA4 and Search Console, delivering quarterly client roadmaps and

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on in SEO 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: crawl, indexation, site speed, schema, site architecture.
• Define keyword strategy, on-page optimization, and content priorities with writers and AI inputs.
• Improve clients' visibility in AI search and traditional organic results.
• Provide reporting in GA4 and Search Console, and maintain quarterly roadmaps for clients.

Skills

SEO

Agency experience

Client communication

English on US calls

Tools

Search Console

GA4

Screaming Frog

Ahrefs or 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.