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

Blacksmith Agency; Sandton; 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 shape the technical roadmap, define content priorities and craft the ranking story when the client asks what moved.

You serve as the strategic voice at the table and make the calls. You will own technical SEO (crawl, indexation, site speed, schema, site architecture), keyword strategy with writers and AI, and ensure visibility in Google AI Overviews 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 roadmap and site architecture.
• Develop keyword strategy and content priorities with writers/AI.
• Getting clients found in AI search: Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity.
• 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.

Skills

SEO experience

English communication

Agency experience

US client calls

Tools

GA4

Screaming Frog

Ahrefs

Semrush

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.