SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Specialist (Remote, Rosebank)

Blacksmith Agency LLC; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 995,000 - 1,493,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is hiring an SEO Specialist to own search channels for B2B and growing brands. You will shape technical roadmaps, prioritize content, and guide writers and AI in deploying drafts.

You will lead technical SEO, keyword strategy, and AI-enabled content, while coordinating with US clients on live calls. The role is fully remote across Canada, South Africa, and the USA, with agency-scale impact.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on in SEO: you have run the audits and made the fixes yourself.
• Agency experience across several clients at once.
• Clear spoken English with US clients on live calls.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

SEO

GA4

Search Console

Screaming Frog

Ahrefs or Semrush

Agency experience

English communication

Tools

Screaming Frog

Ahrefs

Semrush

Google Analytics 4

Google Search Console

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) Specialist 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.