SEO Strategist (Remote, Fourways)

Blacksmith Agency; Randburg; Remote; ZAR 739,000 - 1,067,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is an AI-first digital agency seeking an SEO Strategist to own search for a book of B2B and growing-brand clients. You will shape the technical roadmap, set content priorities, and narrate the ranking story when clients ask what moved.

You are the strategic voice at the table, making the calls and coordinating with writers and AI to deliver results. Fluency in English with US clients on live calls is required.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on in SEO with audits and fixes performed personally.
• Fluency with Search Console, GA4, Screaming Frog, and Ahrefs or Semrush.
• Agency experience across multiple clients simultaneously.
• Clear spoken English with US clients on live calls.

Responsibilities

• Own technical SEO: crawl, indexation, site speed, schema, and architecture.
• Set keyword strategy and on-page priorities with writers and AI drafts.
• Improve AI-assisted and traditional search visibility across Google results.
• Handle local search and multi-location SEO as required.
• Provide GA4 and Search Console reporting and quarterly client roadmaps.

Skills

SEO

Agency experience

US client communication

Technical SEO

Content coordination

Tools

Screaming Frog

GA4

Ahrefs

Semrush

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.