SEO Strategist (Remote, Durbanville)

Blacksmith Agency; Durbanville; Remote; ZAR 1,150,000 - 1,807,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency, an AI-first digital agency, seeks an experienced SEO Strategist to own search for B2B and growing-brand clients. You will shape technical roadmaps, content priorities, and the ranking narrative when clients ask what moved.

You will work with writers and AI, run audits, optimize on-page, manage links and local multi-location SEO, and report in GA4 and Search Console to drive quarterly roadmaps for each client. Clear English on live calls with US clients is essential.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on SEO experience.
• Fluency with Search Console, GA4, Screaming Frog, and Ahrefs or Semrush.
• Agency experience across multiple clients.
• 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 prioritization with writers and AI.
• Getting clients found in AI search and traditional organic results.
• Links, local search, and multi-location SEO for clients.
• GA4 and Search Console reporting; quarterly client roadmaps.

Skills

SEO experience

Agency experience

English on calls

Tools

Screaming Frog

Ahrefs

Semrush

GA4

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 Strategist 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.