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

Blacksmith Agency LLC; KwaZulu-Natal; Remote; ZAR 1,161,000 - 1,659,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is seeking an SEO Manager to own search strategies for B2B and growing brands. You will guide technical roadmaps, content priorities, and the ranking story when clients inquire about movement.

You will set the strategic voice at the table, making calls on technical SEO, data-backed optimization, and localization for multi-location clients, collaborating with writers and AI.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on in SEO and audits, with practical fixes.
• Fluency with Search Console, GA4, Screaming Frog and Ahrefs or Semrush.
• Agency experience across multiple clients simultaneously.
• Strong English communication for US client calls.

Responsibilities

• Own technical SEO roadmap: crawl, indexation, site speed, schema, site structure.
• Define keyword strategy and content priorities with writers and AI drafts.
• Improve visibility in AI search and traditional organic results.
• Manage links, local multi-location SEO, and client reporting in GA4/Search Console.

Skills

SEO experience

English communication

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.