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

Blacksmith Agency; Gqeberha; Remote; ZAR 991,000 - 1,486,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is an AI-first digital agency seeking an SEO Manager to own search for a book of B2B and growing-brand clients. You will guide the technical roadmap, content priorities, and the ranking narrative when clients ask what moved.

You are the strategic voice at the table and you make the calls. You will own technical SEO tasks, keyword strategy, content coordination with writers and AI, and ensure clients appear across AI search results and traditional rankings.

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: crawl, indexation, site speed, schema, and site architecture.
• Lead keyword strategy, on-page optimization and content priorities with writers and AI.
• Improve visibility in AI search: Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity alongside traditional results.
• Manage links, local search and multi-location SEO as needed by clients.
• Provide reporting in GA4 and Search Console and develop quarterly roadmaps per client.

Skills

SEO experience

Client communications

Agency experience

English on live calls

Tools

Search Console

GA4

Screaming Frog

Ahrefs or Semrush

Job description

Blacksmith Agency

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

• 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 (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.