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

Blacksmith Agency; Midrand; Remote; ZAR 1,156,000 - 1,817,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency LLC is seeking an SEO Manager to own the search strategy and execution for a portfolio of B2B clients. You will steer the technical roadmap, content priorities, and the ranking narrative, acting as the strategic voice in client discussions.

You will manage technical SEO tasks, keyword planning with writers and AI, and coordinate with writers for draft content, while reporting via GA4 and Search Console.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on SEO work, audits and fixes.
• Agency experience across multiple clients.
• Clear spoken English with US clients on live calls.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

SEO

English communication

Agency experience

Client-facing calls

Tools

GA4

Screaming Frog

Ahrefs

Semrush

Google Search Console

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.